MEDIA RELEASE: Virtual Business Partners (VBP) has broadened its offering to clients by appointing a new technical lead to oversee its paraplanning capabilities.

Chris Miller has joined VBP as paraplanning technical lead. He is tasked with developing and broadening VBP’s capabilities by providing technical support, learning, development and mentoring to a team of paraplanners, quality assurance analysts and managers.

Mr Miller joins from Focus Partners Financial Services, where he was a paraplanner since January 2020. Before that, he spent four years as both a paraplanner and a financial planner at Generations Personal & Professional Advice in Wodonga, Victoria.

Mr Miller reports to the head of client experience, Sarah Matthews, who was promoted to the newly-created role in January this year. Mrs Matthews was previously VBP’s head of advice delivery, and has been at the firm since December 2019.

VBP provides off-shore specialist assistance and support to Australian-based financial planning firms and was founded in 2013 by financial advice industry veterans David Carney and David Deegan.

Mr Carney said Mr Miller’s skill in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges makes him a perfect paraplanning technical lead.

“Chris is a dedicated financial planning professional with a history of maintaining high levels of technical and compliance support to financial planners and their businesses,” Mr Carney said.

“With a proven history of managing teams of support staff, we believe Chris has what it takes to make a significant impact and effectively meet client expectations and company goals within an expanding VBP team.”