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Matthew J Mercieca
C E O , M AT T H E W JAMES MERCIECA DESIGN ARCHITECTS (MJMDA)
“ D U R I N G M Y T I M E O N E A R T H , I H O P E TO L E AV E T H I N G S BETTER THAN I FOUND THEM, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.”
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For Matthew J Mercieca, being an effective CEO depends upon being as multi-faceted, multi-skilled and multidimensional as the very team he leads at MJMDA. “A CEO needs to turn things around, to bring people together and to see projects through to their rightful completion,” begins Matthew. “My role involves considering everything from our past lessons and present actions to our future plans. It means being a fair and authentic leader; inspiring peak performance in the best skilled people. And all this while cultivating a culture of excellence and ambition to always improve, even if just a little at a time. This is how we deliver dreams to our customers. And this is how I lead my team to deliver those dreams.”
As he motivates his team with this spirit of continuous improvement for the good of the collective, Matthew himself lives and breathes that ethos. “My next project can always be better,” he insists. “In my limited time as a human being here on earth, I would like to leave things better than I found them, for the benefit of all.” Following his graduation, Matthew began working towards his plan to impact the world of architecture and design through a series of related roles. Then, in 2003, he unseated the building industry’s long-held and fragmented ecosystem with the launch of MJMDA. “When I first joined the industry, it tended to skip straight to the application for a permit from the Planning 224