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13 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 14 JUNE 2020 COMMERCIAL Deloitte donates to St Michael Hospice palliative care complex THE Malta Hospice Movement has received a donation from the Deloitte Foundation which will be put towards the completion of St Michael Hospice, the first state-of-the-art palliative care complex in Malta. Hospice Malta Chairper- son, Bernadette Bonnici Kind, gratefully thanked Deloitte for their support. "We have em- barked on an ambitious plan to complete a much-needed palliative care complex in Mal- ta and we would like to thank Deloitte for their support. Be- ing an NGO, and with all our services offered free of charge, we critically rely on corporate and public donations to con- tinue with our care services, and this is only made possible thanks to the generosity of in- dividuals and businesses who enable our operations to con- tinue serving those who need them most." Today Hospice Malta provides palliative care services to more than 1,300 families in Malta and Gozo. St Michael Hospice will house a day therapy unit, in-patient rooms for short-term stays, outdoor garden areas, offices for the community services, an education department and storage space for the loan of equipment service. Founded in 1989, Hospice Malta's primary role is to provide and promote palliative care services to pa- tients suffering from cancer, motor-neuron disease, end-of- life, cardiac, respiratory, re- nal and liver diseases. Hospice Malta is a registered NGO with the Commissioner for Volun- tary Organisations. New senior management appointments at APS Bank AS part of its ongoing transfor- mation and with reference to the Senior Management vacan- cies advertised in late 2019, APS Bank announces the following appointments. Noel McCarthy is now Chief Investments Officer, a new- ly-created position overseeing the Investment Management and Distribution units, subsid- iary and affiliated company ac- tivities and the Bank's property portfolio. A senior executive who joined the Bank in 2000 and served as Chief Financial Officer since 2016, Noel sits on various Board and Man- agement committees and is a Director of ReAPS Asset Man- agement, the wholly-owned subsidiary licensed to manage UCITS funds. Ray Bonnici takes over the new position of Chief People Officer. He joined APS Bank as Head of Human Capital in 2016 after a career in Mal- ta and overseas started in the aviation industry followed by spells with Hilton Hotels In- ternational as Director of HR for Malta and then as Director of HR at Premier Capital, Hili Group. Ray sits on Board and Management committees and his remit spans Human Capi- tal, Training and Talent Devel- opment and Career Planning. Kenneth Genovese is promot- ed to Head of Investment Dis- tribution, responsible for all in- vestment, pension and wealth services and reporting to the Chief Investments Officer. Kenneth started his banking career in the early 90s and he joined APS Bank in 2002, hold- ing various senior positions in Treasury and Investment Services over the years. He is a Henley MBA, a regular lec- turer at local and international Masters programmes and is al- so a committee member at the Institute for Financial Servic- es (Malta). Gilbert Caruana is promoted to Head of Finance, taking over responsibilities which he had previously been carrying as Senior Manager. He joined APS Bank in 2001 as a junior accountant, quali- fied ACCA in 2002 (FCCA – 2009), is a Fellow of the Malta Institute of Accountants and a CPA. He has been key in the development and implementa- tion of major projects and sys- tems. Gilbert is a member of the Bank's ALCO and sits on various industry committees. Daniel Cassar is Head of Dig- ital Innovation, a newly-cre- ated position reporting to the Chief Technology Officer en- trusted to support the digital- isation of the business model. Daniel, who joined the Bank in 2008, has a foundation degree in Banking Practice & Man- agement from the University of Kent and graduated B.Sc. in Computing & Information Systems from the Universi- ty of London in 2018. He has performed various roles with- in the Branch Network, Cards Unit and Technology, includ- ing delivery of the omni-chan- nel and mobile banking project in 2019. Rodney Naudi is the new Head of Operational Risk and Security Governance. He is a graduate in Maths & Com- puting from the University of Malta and holds a M.Sc. in Ad- vanced Software Engineering from the University of Shef- field. Rodney's career in ICT spans over 25 years, having been involved in key projects with MITA before joining APS Bank in 2017 as Operational & Cyber Risk Manager. He is also a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Malta and was a member of the Malta Cyber Se- curity Steering Committee. Gordon Gilford joined APS Bank in April 2020 as the first Head of eChannels, responsible for digital channels, internet and mobile banking, self-ser- vice machines, contact centre and open banking. He spent 19 years at HSBC Bank Malta, his last position being that of Sen- ior Digital Banking Manager. Gordon is qualified in digital marketing, graduated M.Sc. It & Management from Sheffield Hallam University in 2010 and is reading for an MBA from the University of Suffolk.