Cabinet has appointed
Heseti Sione Vaai to lead the Samoa Life Assurance
Corporation, (S.L.A.C.) as its new Chief Executive Officer
and General Manager for the next three years.
A public servant for almost 30 years, Vaai holds a
Bachelor of Arts; Majoring in Accounting & Financial
Management & Minor in Economics from the University of
the South Pacific in Suva Fiji.
Vaai also graduated from the Auckland University of
Technology in New Zealand with a Diploma in Business.
A graduate of Samoa College and the National University
of Samoa, she began her public service career with the
Audit Office in 1991 before moving to the Samoa Water
Authority, (SWA) six years later.
And she has remained with the SWA for the last 23 years
until now.
She started as an Internal Auditor for the Authority and was promoted to Finance Manager in 2001 where
she retained the post, (renamed as Commercial Manager) until her Cabinet appointment.
At the Authority, Vaai’s responsibilities include ensuring financial strategies are in place and implemented,
to improve financial status of SWA for normal operations & financing of capital projects. She was also in
charge of Customer Service which included billing, collections and debt recovery as well the Accounts
section and SWA stores.
Six other applicants applied for the SLAC’s top job.
This will be Vaai’s first tenure as the Corporations’ Chief Executive and GM.