HACKATHON INDUSTRY LEADERS

Cary List, CPA, CA, CFP®

President & CEO, FPSC

As President & CEO, Cary leads the establishment of FPSC as the premier standards-setter for financial planning in Canada and CFP® certification as the standard for financial planners. Cary works tirelessly to elevate the standards of the designation and achieve recognition of financial planning as a distinct profession.

Cary first became involved with FPSC as a volunteer member of the inaugural Panel of Examiners in 1998, joining the organization as Vice President of Standard and Certification in 2002. He became Chief Operating Officer in 2004 and took on the role of President & CEO in 2006. Prior to joining FPSC, Cary was an academic Director at George Brown College in Toronto where he established a baccalaureate program in financial planning, accounting and banking. Cary also spent several years overseeing financial planning practices in Toronto and developing and delivering financial planning programs for public and private sector organizations across Ontario. Cary started his career as a Chartered Accountant and accounting information systems consultant.

Among his many accomplishments at FPSC, Cary has overseen the launch of the FPSC Financial Planning Practice Standards and the CFP® Professional Competency Profile, which, for the first time, clearly defined the knowledge, skills, abilities and ethics Canadians should expect from financial planners, the Practice Standards for CFP professionals and the establishment of the two-level CFP certification program that included adoption of a constructed-response, competency-based CFP certification examination.

A valued member of the global community, Cary was instrumental in the development of the international competency profile now used for 150,000 CFP professionals around the world. He has advanced international excellence in financial planning, working closely with FPSC’s international member organization, the Financial Planning Standards Board, and a number of international affiliates.

Under Cary’s leadership and in collaboration with partner organizations across Canada, FPSC’s vision for a single set of national standards for financial planning is closer to fruition than ever before.

Donna M. Senko, PhD

Director of Global Certification, Ericsson

Donna Senko is currently the Director of Global Certification at Ericsson. She has more than 15 years experience in the IT training and certification arena, as well as 10 years teaching experience. Prior to joining Ericsson Donna launched a certification program for Marketo, a marketing automation start-up, following her years as Director of Certification and Skills Assessment at Microsoft. At Microsoft Donna also served as the Chief of Staff for Worldwide Training and Certification. In her earlier years Donna managed training, certification, and technical publications functions for Hewlett-Packard and SCO. In her teaching career Donna taught German at the university level, as well as English and French in an academic high school in Germany.

In her free time Donna enjoys volunteering at local non-profits, learning new languages, swimming and hiking. She is fluent in German, speaks a limited amount of Spanish and French, and totally destroys Russian.

Nikki Eatchel

Senior Vice President of Assessment, Scantron

Nikki Eatchel, Senior Vice President of Assessment for Scantron has more than 22 years of experience in the assessment industry. She has spent the majority of her career focused in the areas of assessment development and psychometrics and has served in executive leadership positions for these areas in a number of assessment organizations. In her positions she has worked in various testing segments, including K12 educational assessment, certification and licensure, employment testing, and employment litigation support. She has also served as an assessment and business consultant for various national and international organizations.

Her responsibilities have spanned the full spectrum of assessment activities, including blueprint development, item development, item bank design and management, assessment design, assessment development, professional development, test administration, scoring and reporting. She has been personally responsible for large-scale assessment development for international programs as well as state-wide clients, working in some capacity with all 50 states within the U.S. She has added to her well-rounded approach to the assessment industry by serving in leadership positions in program management, client support, and business development. Her work has taken her around the world for in-country assessment development work and ongoing client management. She has worked in the arena of employment litigation support, preparing testimony for teams representing both the prosecution and the defense.

Nikki served as the Chair of the Association of Test Publishers (ATP) Security Committee in 2011-2013. She is currently serving on the executive board for ATP and is the incoming chair for 2017. She has also served on a number of industry committees, including the Operational Best Practices Committee for ATP and has presented numerous papers at such conferences as ATP, E-ATP, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), the International Personnel Management Association (IPMA), and the Council on Licensure, Enforcement, and Regulation (CLEAR). She holds an M.A. in Industrial Organizational Psychology and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Davis.


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