Marcella Romero is the Founder and CEO of the Arriba Group. The company believes that every individual deserves a better future. And so, it provides quality-allied health and employment services directly to individuals with or without disability, in addition to individuals belonging to various levels of government and private corporations.
Marcella is a strategic, passionate and innovative leader who expanded a one-woman home office to three successful enterprises — Rehab Management, AimBig Employment and LiveBig — with over 350 diverse employees across 98 offices, all working to deliver quality services to its clients. In 2019, AimBig Employment was listed as one of the AFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies in Australia.
Marcella holds an undergraduate and Master’s in Health Science in Occupational Therapy from the University of Sydney. She is an award-winning chief executive with over 20 years’ experience working in Allied Health Services across workplace rehabilitation, disability employment and disability therapy services (under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)).
She won the Comcare WHS (Innovation) Award in 2014. Marcella was also the finalist in the 2017 Telstra NSW Entrepreneur Award, Telstra 2019 NSW Business Women’s Awards (Medium and Large Business) and 2017 Health Executive of the Year Awards (CEO Magazine ANZ). Recently, she was a finalist in the Australian Growth Company Awards for Women in Leadership (2019) and the 2019 CEO Executive of the Year Award (CEO Magazine ANZ).
