Four top executive jobs were assigned during the year in the normal process of appointments made by Cabinet.
The Electric Power Corporation General Manager, is Faumuina Mr. Iese Toimoana. He replaced his predecessor Tologata Tile Tuimaleali’ifano.
Faumui started his working career with the Corporation after graduating from NZCE studies in New Zealand.
His service was put on hold while he completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. Other job opportunities both at the regional and national fields kept him away before his return to his EPC roots.
Cabinet confirmed Savaeloa Mareva Betham-Annandale as new Attorney General.
The holder of a Bachelor’s degree in law has been in the legal profession for more than 20 years.
About half of her working career was spent with the Office of the Attorney General where she worked her way up to become one of the assistants to the Attorney General.
Savalenoa worked in New Zealand for the Department of Corrections and the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs.
Back in Samoa she became President of the Samoa Law Society and just before becoming Attorney General, was one half of the Annandale and Betham Law Firm set up with her husband.
Long service of close to 30 years paid off for the new General Manager of the Samoa Life Assurance.
Ms. Heseti Tamali’i-Vaai started off briefly with the Audit Office before spending the next 23 of year working career with the Samoa Water Authority.
The veteran public servant is a holder of a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Financial Manager from the University of the South Pacific and a Business Diploma from the AUT in New Zealand.
The new Regulator is Lematua Fuatai Purcell. Her appointment was confirmed by Cabinet in Sept. 2020.
She is only the third person to be appointed to the executive position since the Office of the Regulator was first established in 2006 “to provide regulatory services for the telecommunications sector in Samoa.”
Lematua started her working career in Samoa with the Ministry of Communications, Information and Technology before moving to Europe.
She brings to her new job more than 10 years of international experience in telecommunications with the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, in Switzerland and in the United Kingdom with the Commonwealth Telecom CTO.
Lematua is the wife of the Minister of Public Enterprises, Lautafi Selafi Purcell.
