Joint chairment for FSA Small Business Practitioner Panel

The Panel represents a wide range of smaller regulated firms, and its remit is to comment - from a small business perspective - on any aspect of FSA policy or activity. Its work has a specific focus on cost and practicability issues, and represents part of the FSAs commitment to an open dialogue with the industry.

Michael Quicke, Group Chief Executive of Leopold Jospeh & Sons, and Roger Sanders, Principal of Rogers Sanders Associates, have been members of the Panel since it started work in May this year.

Clive Briault, Director Central Policy FSA, and Chairman of the Panel for its first four meetings, said:

"The members of the Panel and the FSA are very pleased that Michael and Roger have become joint chairmen of the Panel. They have already made a major contribution as members and together they combine a wide range of experience and expertise. It was always the intention that the Panel should be chaired by practitioners and it was an honour and privilege for me to fill the gap until the Panel was ready to appoint practitioner members to this role. I look forward to continuing to work with the Panel as the main link between it and the FSA."

Michael Quicke joined Leopold Joseph in 1981 and joined the board in 1989. He became joint chief executive in 1992 and sole chief executive in 1994. He is a member of the National Trust Finance Committee and a partner in J.G.Quicke & partners, a family farming and cheesemaking business.

Roger Sanders set up Roger Sanders Associates - employee benefits consultants - in 1983. He is a board member of the Personal Investment Authority and is chairman of its Small Business

Practitioners Panel and is also deputy chairman of the new Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA). He is chairman of the Friends of Francis Holland School in central London.

The other members of the Panel are:

Mike Burns BWD Securities plc Edward Chapman Communication Workers Friendly Society Ruthven Gemmell Murray Beith Murray WS - Solicitor Chris Little Century Life June Nightingale Glasgow Council Credit Union David Rangeley RD Rangeley - Accountant Colin Smith Beverley Building Society Alan Taylor DBS Financial Management Gavin Tisshaw Executive Advisory Services Andrew Waddingham Barnet Waddingham - Actuary Julian Wallace TU Fund Managers

Notes for editors

The FSA also seeks to take into account the particular perspective and concerns of small firms in a number of other ways:

In its cost-benefit analysis work, the FSA reviews the impact of proposed regulations on small and medium-sized enterprises;

The FSA routinely seeks to secure small firm representation on ad hoc groups dealing with particular issues;

The FSA has routine contact with all trade associations, including those representing small firms.