Wasteserv has announced that Richard Bilocca will be its new CEO.

Former CEO Tonio Montebello had resigned on Wednesday.

Richard Bilocca holds an M.Sc and a BA Hons. He has worked at the Icelandic Institute of Sustainable Development leading various projects on sustainable energy development, energy infrastructure, and fisheries. Bilocca also worked at AIS Environmental Ltd. focusing on the coordination of large scale consulting works whilst also being responsible for numerous reports and the drafting of main tender proposals. Projects included power plants, wind farms, sewage treatment plants, storm water systems, and other large scale infrastructure. He then worked for seven years at the Permanent Representation of Malta to the European Union and chaired a Council Working Party for a year under the Slovak and Maltese Presidencies.

His Chairmanship is described as one of the most prolific and efficient. Moreover, POLITICO, in its Presidency scoring exercise rated the work of his team at 10/10 and stated that the results witness the dedication at closing some of the toughest jobs. Bilocca then joined the Energy and Water Agency as Chief Corporate Officer and fulfilled a horizontal role responsible for Corporate Image, HR, assisting the CEO in negotiations with third parties, disputes, EU affairs, and other tasks related to the functioning of the Agency.

Richard Bilocca was also employed as CEO at the Water Services Corporation for two and a half years. The Corporation has a workforce of over a thousand individuals and serves over 250,000 households, businesses, industries, hotels, and others, in relation to the production and supply of potable water, collection and treatment of wastewater, and related services. Under his helm the Corporation went through intensive restructuring and just concluded its financial year with a surplus triple the average value of the previous 6 years.

Key to this achievement was a very aggressive strategy focusing on efficiency and management streamlining. He was also instrumental in Malta’s largest ever EU Cohesion funded project at over €135m which will revitalise Malta’s water and sewage infrastructure.