General Manager – SPBD Samoa
Paula joins the SPBD Samoa team as the General Manager after 14 years with SPBD. He first joined SPBD as a Centre Manager in Tonga conducting weekly Centre Meetings and quickly rose to the role of Operations Manager. Additionally, Paula has overseen the expansion of SPBD Tonga to Vava’u, development of new products including higher education, white goods and small and medium enterprise loan products, and assisted in the launch of both SPBD Solomon Islands in 2012 and SPBD Vanuatu in 2019. In 2022 after eight years as the Head of Operations of SPBD Tonga, Paula transferred to SPBD Vanuatu to assist with the stabilization and growth of SPBD’s newest MFI.
He brought his dedication to detail and compliance with him and helped SPBD Vanuatu through the 2023 twin cyclone disaster back to operational self-sufficiency. Paula holds a Business degree from Tupou Tertiary Institute in Tonga and additionally has attended and completed the 2014 Grameen International Dialogue Program for Microfinance in Bangladesh and the 2017 Community Based Financial Inclusion and Microfinance Program in Thailand.
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