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SPBD STAFF LOYALTY

Two members of the SPBD team have been from 1995-1997, and at the start of his career,
with the organisation since its first days in Fiji. served as Operations Director for the Center

General Manager Elrico Munoz has 25 years’ Community Transformation (CCT), a microfinance
experience in the microfinance sector. He set organisation in the Philippines. In his time with
up SPBD’s Fiji operations, with the first office in CCT Rico rebuilt the ailing organisation, making
a room at the Suva Motor Inn, after serving as it one of the largest and most viable MFIs in the
General Manager of SPBD Samoa. Elrico also Philippines.
helped establish and launch start-up operations Rico holds an MM in Business Management and
for SPBD Tonga as a short-term consultant to the a BA in Psychology from the University of the
general manager. Philippines. Originally hailing from the Philippines,

While with Kiva Microfunds, Rico successfully he is now a Fiji citizen.
added 11 microfinance partners to his portfolio “Being part of SPBD is a dream job because ever
from the Philippines, Mongolia, Vietnam and since I graduated from university, it was always
Indonesia. He has also served as the Managing about me helping out people,” Rico says.
Director of Vanwoods Microfinance in Vanuatu

Vani Bogirua, SPBD’s Finance Officer clearly “I think we left around midnight,” she laughs,
remembers the day she was interviewed for “because of the amount of cash.”
her first job as a cashier and in administration Like many people, Vani did not know too much
with SPBD because she went straight from the about microfinance when she first started.
interview room to join her new colleagues, who
were disbursing cash to the SPBD’s first members. She has done many jobs in her time with SPBD,

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