Anton Colella is a

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businessman. He has been the

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since 2018, and was previously the global chief executive of the

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. Colella is an advocate for

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-driven business practices and

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Early life and education

Anton Colella was raised in

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in a

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family. He graduated from the

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Teaching career

Colella spent the first 18 years of his career as a

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teacher. He served as

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at St Margaret Mary's Secondary School in

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from 2000 to 2003.

Business career

In 2003, Colella became the chief executive of the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA). In October 2006, he became the chief executive of the

(ICAS). This appointment was made despite the fact that Colella did not possess an MBA degree, nor any obvious qualifications apart from his work in

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. Colella oversaw a globalization phase of ICAS, such that, by 2015, he claimed that their overseas membership had grown by 60 per cent in the previous decade. During this period, Colella also advocated for the simplification of the UK tax code, which he complained of being "12 times the length of the

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". Colella departed the ICAS in March 2018. At his resignation, the ICAS president

Brian Souter Sir Brian Souter (born 5 May 1954) is a Scottish businessman. With his sister, Ann Gloag, he founded the Stagecoach Group of bus and rail operators. He also founded the bus and coach operator Megabus, the train operating company South West Tra ...

said, "Over the past decade, Anton has been the architect of a transformed ICAS". Colella became the CEO of

in March 2018. Colella oversaw the rebranding of the company from Moore Stephens to Moore Global. Colella defended the rebranding as meeting "a world defined by global decision-making, data-driven insight and the need for agility."

Affiliations

In 2011, Colella became a chair of the

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. Colella serves on the International Executive Council of the

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, an association of Christian communities belonging to the

charismatic movement The charismatic movement in Christianity is a movement within established or mainstream denominations to adopt beliefs and practices of Charismatic Christianity, with an emphasis on baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the use of spiritual gift ...

References

External links

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Anton Colella
at the

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Anton Colella
at the Scottish Catholic Education Service {{DEFAULTSORT:Colella, Anton Living people Schoolteachers from Glasgow Businesspeople from Glasgow Alumni of the University of Stirling Scottish accountants Scottish Roman Catholics Scottish chief executives 21st-century Scottish businesspeople Year of birth missing (living people) People from Shettleston