Hail to the Chief-Elect

Mark Johannessen, managing director of Sullivan, Bruyette, Spero & Blayney in McLean, Virginia, has been named President-Elect of the Financial Planning Association for 2007. As such, he will become president of the FPA in 2008, when President Nick Nicolette becomes chairman, replacing the FPA president for 2006, Dan Moisand.

Johannessen won kudos for his work developing FPA’s pro bono services program following 9/11, and chaired the FPA’s Hurricane

Relief Center for Planners Task Force following Hurricane Katrina.