PIPA welcomes new board administrators

The Property Funding Professionals of Australia (PIPA) has introduced the election of two business leaders to its board of administrators.

New PIPA administrators

Mike Mortlock (pictured above left), Newcastle’s MCG Amount Surveyors managing director, and Cate Bakos (pictured above proper), Melbourne’s Cate Bakos Property director, have been unanimously elected to PIPA’s board.

These elections come on the heels of the departure of former board members Steve Waters and Paul Glossop, who left the board after 10 and 6 years, respectively.

PIPA Chair Nicola McDougall expressed gratitude to the outgoing administrators.

“On behalf of the PIPA board of administrators, I wish to thank each Steve and Paul for his or her contributions, insights, and efforts on behalf of our members and the broader property funding career through the years,” McDougall mentioned.

The PIPA chief additionally welcomed Mortlock and Bakos to the board.

Each, McDougall mentioned, “deliver many years of expertise, which I’m assured will show to be extremely useful to the career and our membership in the course of the continued evolution of the affiliation.”

“I’m deeply honoured to be a part of an affiliation that not solely fosters excellence inside the business, but additionally recognises the very important position that buyers play in offering important rental lodging for communities throughout Australia,” Mortlock mentioned.

Bakos, former president of the Actual Property Purchaser’s Brokers Affiliation of Australia (REBAA), expressed her eagerness to contribute to elevating skilled requirements and advocating for shopper consciousness inside the property funding career.

“I sit up for contributing my experience and dealing alongside fellow board members to additional advance PIPA’s mission and proceed serving the wants of each buyers and shoppers alike,” she mentioned. “I do know I’ve the power and capability to passionately advocate for our business and am captivated with skilled requirements and shopper consciousness.”

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