Jim Fitzpatrick: President of NICSA, Industry Veteran to Lead Not-for-Profit Investment Management Industry Group

NICSA, the not-for-profit trade association founded in 1962 serving the global investment management industry, announced the appointment of Jim Fitzpatrick as its president, effective September 8, 2015. As President, Jim leads the organization through growth, helps carry out its mission of aligning the industry through sharing of ideas that foster efficiency, provides education and knowledge programs, and develops and disseminates content that supports those goals.

Jim Fitzpatrick has over 30 years of experience to this position, and is a former NICSA board member, and was President of Executive Business Coaching, Inc. where he specialized in corporate strategy and executive development. Mr. Fitzpatrick was a Managing Director within Goldman Sachs Asset Management at the time of his retirement in 2011. In 1997, he was recruited to lead the build out of GSAM’s Global Transfer Agency and Shareholder Services capabilities and later assumed leadership responsibilities within Third Party Distribution for Global Liquidity Sales and Strategic Alliances.

Jim was an officer of the Goldman Sachs Funds for fourteen years and currently serves as an Independent Trustee for the Hays Series Trust. Jim began his career with The Boston Company in fund operations and was later promoted to Vice President and General Manager at First Data Investor Services Group for the surviving entity, First Data Corporation. Jim is a 1983 graduate of Assumption College in Worcester, MA. Wilbanks Partners assisted with this search.

NICSA is a nonprofit association, founded in 1962 as the National Investment Company Service Association. Its purpose is to align and educate the industry through the discussion and sharing of leading practices to support and enable industry efficiency; formal education and knowledge programs; and content development and information dissemination. NICSA’s membership represents a broad cross-section of the global investment management community including asset managers, distributors and service providers.

Today, NICSA membership includes asset managers, broker dealers, distributors and service providers aligned with the purpose of collaboration regarding operational standards to continuously improve operating performance and technological advances within the industry; stay up-to-date on the latest developments through education and information sharing; learn about trends across all types of investment vehicles, including mutual funds, hedge funds, unit investment trusts, UCITs and ETFs and connect members with peers to network and learn from each other.