Financial Executives International (FEI), an advocacy group for the views of corporate financial management, recently announced the election of a new slate of executive officers and members of the board of directors for the fiscal year, effective as of July 1.

Prat Bhatt, corporate controller and chief accounting officer of Cisco Systems will serve as national board chair. Since joining FEI in 2007, he has served in various roles within Financial Executives Research Foundationโ€™s Research Committees and Board of Trustees, including the role of chair in 2013. Bhatt was elected to the FEI board in 2014 as a director and is an active participant on FEIโ€™s committee on corporate reporting.