BISA Selects Jeff Hartney as Executive Director

The Bank Insurance & Securities Association (BISA) appointed Jeff Hartney as Executive Director, effective July 7.

According to a company release, Hartney will succeed Jim McNeil, who is departing after three years of leadership to assume a senior executive role within BISA's association management partner, SmithBucklin Hartney's appointment comes after an exhaustive search that included top executives from both the financial services and trade association industries.

Hartney's professional career includes ten years as a Managing Director at the Bank Administration Institute (BAI), where he led the BAI Research sales organization, which provides syndicated strategic research and benchmarking solutions for the top 50 US banks. Most recently, he was Vice President, Market Development at Arroweye Solutions.

"Jeff's professional experience-in particular the combination of executive roles in financial services and association management- make him uniquely qualified to lead BISA," said Dan Overbey, BISA President. "The board of directors is confident that there is no better person to guide BISA's efforts to enhance business intelligence and decision making, and we're excited to begin working with him."

The Bank Insurance and Securities Association (BISA) is a financial services industry association.

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