John Poff, the president and CEO of Mutual Service Corp. and the chair in 2006 of the Financial Services Institute, has announced his retirement from the broker/dealer. In a statement, John Dixon, president of Pacific Select Group and current chairman of MSC, said he will assume the CEO role as well at MSC, and that Poff will serve as a consultant through the end of 2007. MSC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Life Insurance Co.
Poff has served on the board of the FSI since its inception, and gained wide praise for his leadership of the independent broker/dealer group while serving as chairman of FSI in 2006.