Colleen La Touche (pictured) has been appointed Head of Business Development at Kaplan Professional‘s Auckland office.
La Touche has been in the financial services industry for more than 20 years, progressing through financial adviser support roles before becoming a financial adviser specialising in risk insurance. Her firm Valour Financial Specialists was sold in 2021.
Kaplan Professional CEO Brian Knight says La Touche will play a “…crucial role in opening up a broad range of corporate opportunities” for the firm as well as launch its CPD programme.
Last year Kaplan Professional partnered with Massey University to offer the New Zealand Certificate in Financial Services (Level 5) [Version 2].
Knight says: “Both organisations realised early on that we needed the right person to play an important role in helping advisers, corporates, and financial advice providers meet the new professional standards regime.”
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