Monday, August 25, 2008

Don Pitti honored by FPA

The Financial Planning Association will give P. Kemp Fain Jr. award to Don Pitti at its FPA Boston 2008 conference, to be held Oct. 4-7.

The award recognizes individuals in the industry who contributed to the financial planning profession through service to professional societies, academia and/or government.

Mr. Pitti has been a member of the Denver-based FPA and its predecessor organizations since 1969.

He served as the chairman of the Denver-based Society of Financial Counseling and president of its successor organization, the Atlanta-based International Association for Financial Planning.

In 1969, Mr. Pitti also helped found the College for Financial Planning of Greenwood Village, Colo.

Additionally, he served as a governor of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. of Washington and was a founder and chairman of the Foundation for Financial Planning of Tucker, Ga.

The CFP Board and the Foundation for Financial Planning were founded in 1985.

Mr. Pitti was a managing director of J.W. Seligman & Co. Inc. of New York and before that was managing director with Nuveen Investments Inc. of Chicago.

He served as a consultant for the launch of InvestmentNews in 1997.

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