Mr Appleyard, CleverSuper’s chief executive – who also ran now-defunct financial planning group Custom Wealth Solutions – has joined the Findex Group as special project manager, an external consulting role that will see him work across the company’s various financial planning entities.
Speaking to SMSF Adviser, Findex chief executive Spiro Paule said he saw long-term potential in Mr Appleyard, pointing to the CleverSuper offering in particular.
“I’m not overly fixated on Chris’s former business life; I came to know Chris in our mutual endeavour to get better products and services out to the market and became aware of CleverSuper and thought there might be some application for our business,” Mr Paule said.
“I think he is a focused and highly intelligent young man and so when he got out of his other businesses we had a discussion about ways we can work together.”
