Vella Cardona Consultants

A warranted Maltese lawyer holding a post-graduate degree in European and Comparative law and more than 20 years of experience in legal practice. In 2007, after eight years as an Associate within the EU department of a leading law firm, she set up her own legal consultancy setup, providing legal services in various areas requiring expertise in EU laws and policies. In the course of her profession, she occupied various roles including that of Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority, board member of the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality and Deputy Secretary General of the Malta Bankers’ Association. She is a visiting examiner at the University of Malta and a regular contributor to the local media.

Dr Mariosa Vella Cardona leads the legal department of VC Consultancy services and provides advice to clients on various EU and national laws and policies, with an emphasis on consumer law, competition law, intellectual property law, internal market rules and data protection. Services include drafting and vetting of international commercial agreements, performing impact assessments of EU and local laws, interacting and lobbying accordingly with the relevant Maltese and EU authorities. and providing customised training. 

By combining an in-depth knowledge of the Maltese legislative and administrative systems, knowledge of the EU legal framework and leveraging on a network of local and international specialists, VCC’s legal department provides a comprehensive legal service to its clients.

A Business Information Technology professional, proficient in understanding complex business processes and applying management and technical skills to implement improvements, achieve compliance and delivering innovation to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of an operation. Mark has a B.Sc in Computing & Management from the University Of Greenwich (UK) and a Masters in Business Intelligence from the University of Sheffield Hallem (UK).

Mark’s experience in IT commenced originally around IT within regulatory medical manufacturing and logistics environments where he was entrusted to driving change using IT and automation technologies. He successfully delivered continual improvement programs for the various management functions including operations, logistics, human resources and finance within multinational operations. This focus later expanded further into commercial operations and field technologies for sales, marketing and customer care operations.

During his corporate career Mark has occupied various senior management positions and formed part of senior executive teams of operations in Malta, Tunisia, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Saudi Arabia tasked with the definition and execution of strategic plans and corporate objectives. He has lead various international teams to deliver enterprise software portfolios roll outs related of ERP, manufacturing data acquisition, process automation, business intelligence, knowledge management, supply chain and customer / consumer solutions. Mark has a wide exposure to varied technical and commercial environments and is a trained Lean Sigma Green belt, an ISO 13485 internal quality auditor and a seasoned project manager.

This professional knowledge of business IT technology coupled with the experiences derived from varied commercial environments make us your ideal partner for your journey in business digital transformation.