Infocus yesterday announced that in response to substantial growth, it has restructured its senior leadership team and recruited a number of new team members across its operating divisions.
As part of this new Leadership Team structure, Infocus welcomes fantastic team members in Richard Herbst in the role of General Manager Financial Advice, responsible for the Infocus Group’s AFSL operations; Irene Watt in the role of General Manager Marketing; and Michael Corcoran in the role of General Manager Salaried Advice, responsible for Infocus’ rapidly
growing salaried advice team.
Richard joins Infocus from Heritage Bank, where he was responsible for the successful establishment and rapid growth of Heritage’s presence in financial advice prior to sale to the IOOF group. Irene joins us with a wealth of marketing experience in senior in-house and agency marketing roles, including former Head of Marketing roles with Careers Australia and Foundation Group. Michael joins Infocus from BT Financial Group, where he was most recently acting General Manager for Victoria and Tasmania, with direct responsibility for BT’s salaried
advice team.
Infocus is pleased to formally welcome Richard, Michael and Irene to our Leadership Team to play a key role in guiding and executing on our strategy in coming years. Rod Bristow,
Managing Director and CEO of Infocus, said “We have seen rapid growth in many parts of our business in the last 12 months. Our refreshed senior leadership team brings to Infocus substantial depth and capability of expertise to help us in this exciting new phase for the group”, he said.
In response to a question on what is driving the growth of the Infocus Group, Bristow said “The H&R Block referral program is a key driver. This directly aligns with our adviser value proposition of helping our advisers grow revenue, increase efficiency and effectively manage risk in their businesses. We are also seeing growth in our AFSL operations, as we recruit and retain experienced financial advisers providing quality financial advice for clients; and ourtechnology business, as more advisers leverage the real-time monitoring and supervisioncapability and deep client engagement and advice management tools within our proprietary software, Platformplus”, he said.
