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Adriana Camilleri Vassallo
CEO, FRANCIS J VA S S A L L O & A S S O C I AT E S L T D
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“I was appointed CEO in 2019, and it couldn’t have been more of a challenging time, with the pandemic coming in shortly after,” reveals Adriana Camilleri Vassallo of her relatively new role within FJVA – a business she helped set up alongside her father, Francis J Vassallo, 22 years ago.
our ethical values, client satisfaction and relationship management,” she continues, and these have remained the company’s core values over the years since. “I believe that the relationship we’ve built with our clients has always been based on mutual honesty, transparency and ethics, and our strategy has always been to grow our core business over the years,” she adds – something the team has achieved, not necessarily by looking at quantity, but quality of clients.
“Our main goal was to create a company to provide tax and corporate services based on three principles: 115