Global Finance appoints Mike Skilling to its Advisory Board

NZ's top mortgage and insurance adviser creates an advisory board of industry experts.

Global Financial Services Managing Director, Ajay Kumar, announced the appointment of Mike Skilling to the GFS advisory board today. He joins Darrin Franks, another industry business expert to the newly formed Advisory Board.

“Mike’s appointment follows nine months of intensive organisational development work at GFS and the timing is excellent as we look to springboard off this work in the 2016 financial year.

 The depth and breadth of experience Mike has across retail, private, rural and business banking sectors, together with insurance, managed funds and finance companies means his contribution to the governance of GFS will be immense and we are very pleased to have him as part of our team.”

 Mr Skilling is a well-regarded professional director currently serving on several company boards in New Zealand including SBS Bank. He has held a number of executive roles at the BNZ including the General Manager of Business and Rural Banking. He has also held the role of General Manager Customer Service at PGC Wrightson one of NZ’s leading providers to the agricultural sector.

He was a founding director of The ICEHOUSE and Board Member and Trustee for eight years. He has been a judge of the Westpac Auckland Business Awards through the Auckland Chamber of Commerce and ATEED (Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development) as well as the Indian Business Awards. He is a Fellow of Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) and a Chartered Member of the NZ Institute of Directors.

Mr Skilling joins another well-known industry professional, Darrin Franks, on the Board making for a solid level and broad range of financial service expertise to help guide GFS on the next stage of its strategic development. Mr Franks has been providing management and strategy consultancy to GFS since August of 2015 and we are pleased to confirm his ongoing commitment to GFS at this level.”

About GFS

Since 1999, Global Financial Services ltd (GFS) has been helping Kiwis realise their dreams by arranging loans to purchase their first home, investment property, business or commercial property. GFS also arranges life, medical and personal risk insurance to help Kiwis protect their life and mortgages in unforeseen circumstances.

GFS has won 29 prestigious awards & recognition including -
1. New Zealand’s top advisor awards from ANZ Bank (2012-15), ASB Bank (2014, 15) and AIA Insurance (2008-15) and The New Zealand Mortgage Mag (rankings for 2014, 2015).
2. Best customer service awards from Westpac Auckland Business Awards (Auckland South, 2015) - delivered by Auckland Chambers of Commerce and ATEED and Indian Business Awards 2014
3. Best Financial Adviser Award (Mortgage and Insurance) from BNZ INIBA awards 2015

GFS not only arranges the mortgage it also advises customers on how they can save interest on it and get mortgage free earlier as per their individual capacity. Similarly, it recommends insurance products to fit with the customer’s unique situation.