Mr. Joseph Galea is a qualified accountant and currently works as a free-lance Management and Financial consultant. Over the years, Mr. Galea held various managerial positions with top local companies. He spent the first twenty years of his career with the US Multinational Group Blue Bell/VF acting as Chief Accountant of the Maltese Operation, then moved on to Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) where he became one of Malta’s first leading VAT Specialists.
After a brief spell with the FXB Group of Companies, he joined the Corinthia Group in 1999 as Chief Financial Officer where for twenty years he was primarily in charge of Financial Accounting and Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, Cash Flow Management, Tax matters, and the Group’s relationships with Auditors and Banks. Joseph was also heavily involved in the Group’s Equity and Bond Issues and ever-present for the Audit Committees of the Group’s Mother Co., IHI plc, and Corinthia Finance Plc. He also formed part of several professional councils including, amongst others, those of the Malta Institute of Accountants and the Malta Institute of Taxation. Joseph is also a Non-Executive Director on a number of Boards of local and foreign-owned companies.