{"id":570309,"date":"2026-03-30T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570309\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:56:13","slug":"legalsuper-to-lose-two-c-suite-execs-ceo-moves-to-equip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570309\/","title":{"rendered":"legalsuper to lose two C-suite execs, CEO moves to Equip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>legalsuper has announced it is set to lose both its chief executive and chief investment officer later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Luke Symons will depart at the end of the financial year after three years, having taken up the role in April 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Symons will join Equip Super from 1 July, taking over from Scott Cameron and chief financial officer Marc Pizzichetta will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superreview.com.au\/equip-super-promotes-cfo-to-leadership-role\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hold the role at Equip in an acting capacity.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as this, CIO Andrew Lill will also leave on the same date to take up a role outside of superannuation. He has only been with the fund for a year, joining last March from Rest.<\/p>\n<p>Independent chair, Kirsten Mander, said: \u201cDuring his time with legalsuper Luke worked with our board and executive team to deliver considerable strategic and structural development for the benefit of our growing membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvidence of this development is demonstrated by achievements in key performance metrics including sustained top quartile investment returns and solid membership growth combined with strong member satisfaction levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Symons commented: \u201clegalsuper has developed a strong reputation as a high-performing specialist superannuation fund at the forefront of member-centric endeavour. The fund is well-placed to continue on this trajectory and I thank the board, staff and members for their support during my time as chief executive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fund has appointed recruitment firm Sheldon Harris to commence the recruitment process.<\/p>\n<p>legalsuper is not the only super fund looking for a new CEO as HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey is to step down after a decade in the second half of the year. The $100 billion super fund which specialises in healthcare workers aims to have a new name announced by July, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile First Super has appointed an acting CEO in the shape of Greg Everett while it seeks a replacement for Bill Watson who left to join BUSSQ in January.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Equip Super chief executive Scott Cameron will depart at the end of March and its chief financial officer Marc Pizzichetta has been appointed in an acting capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"legalsuper has announced it is set to lose both its chief executive and chief investment officer later this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,3698,3860,219343,85220,133,219344,131,132],"class_list":["post-570309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ceo","tag-cio","tag-equip-super","tag-exit","tag-finance","tag-legalsuper","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}