First chair of National Skills Academy for Financial Services announced

15 August 2007: Tony Vine-Lott, Director-General of the Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA), has been appointed as the first chair of the National Skills Academy for Financial Services.

Vine-Lott has been the Director General of TISA for the past six years. TISA, (formerly PIMA), is a trade body representing most of the major banks, life offices, fund managers and stockbrokers in the UK.

“Skills champions are central to the competitiveness of this industry, and we need more of them,” Vine-Lott said on his appointment. “I will be working to encourage a wide range of financial services employers to get involved with the skills academy. This is a real opportunity to set the national agenda for training in our industry.”

Vine-Lott has spent much of the last twenty years in retail financial services, including nine years with Barclays PLC where he set up Barclays Stockbrokers. He takes up his role, as interim chair for academic year 2007-08, in September 2007.