The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. today announced the chairs of its ethics commission and three advisory councils for 2013.
Martin Siesta, CFP, founding principal of Compass Wealth Management, a financial planning and investment advisory firm in Maplewood, N.J., becomes chair of the Disciplinary and Ethics Commission (DEC).
The DEC meets thrice annually to administer disciplinary hearings for holders of the CFP designation.
Before joining Compass Wealth Management, Siesta was a senior financial planner with the Wealth Planning Group, an office of Metropolitan Life, where he was awarded the status of premier planner.
The Public Policy Council will be chaired by Roger Begin, CFP, sales director for BNY Mellon’s Wealth Management Group for the Rhode Island region. In this role, he is responsible for new business development activities in the region. He has more than 15 years of investment sales experience.
The Public Policy Council serves an advisory role on public policy issues affecting CFP Board, its certificants and the public.
Dr. Jesse Arman, CFP, will serve as chair of the Council on Education, which advises the CFP Board on the development and clarification of all educational policies related to the CFP certification process.
Arman is the vice president of regulatory and government affairs at the College for Financial Planning in Greenwood Village, Colo. He previously served for 15 years as the college’s vice president of academic affairs.
The Council on Examinations will be chaired by Craig Lemoine, CFP, who holds the Jarrett L. Davis distinguished professorship in financial planning technology at The American College. He has been an assistant professor there since 2008 with responsibilities for teaching a number of financial planning and case study courses.
The Council on Examinations is an advisory group of stakeholders responsible for the CFP examination.