Alfred Strolla is the founder and CEO of STROLLA. Alfred was a General Senior Partner in the Deloitte & Touche Middle East Practice. Alfred is a Certified Public Account of Ireland and United Arab Emirates. He possess over 40 years of successful professional experience providing audit & assurance, tax consultancy and financial advisory services to a range of clients in the Middle East and
Europe and brings with him a wealth of experience in the GCC region in assurance & advisory
engagements. Alfred was also the regional leader of Deloitte’s Energy and Resources Practice at
Deloitte Middle East. Alfred is an Italian National and is fluent in English and have ability to
communicate, read and write Arabic language.
Alfred has an extensive experience and has acted as a Regional Managing Partner for Deloitte
Middle East. Alfred has an unparalleled successful experience in the United Arab Emirates, and the
wider Middle East region and Europe in the provision of audit, tax and financial advisory services to a
number of regional and international Oil and Gas (Energy) industry, companies covering exploration
and production, refining and gas processing, marine transportation, oilfield services and petroleum
engineering, maintenance and construction companies.
From tax perspective, he dealt with international tax queries from Deloitte offices worldwide, in
particular GCC countries, USA, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and India.
Alfred’s services are also called upon for Tax Planning, Tax Compliance, Transfer Pricing, setting up
companies and Double Taxation treaties with including BEPS (Base Erosion Profit Shifting).
Alfred has a wide range of upstream experience covering exploration and production operations under
joint production service agreements as well as sole risk and non-consent operations. Alfred has also
served a variety of downstream operations covering LNG, LPG, Petrochemicals processing,
transportation and refining.
Alfred has played a key role in the successful restructuring and privatization of the electricity and
related water sector both in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and in the Sultanate of Oman and also served as
an advisor to the Ministry of Finance in Abu Dhabi and Oman on the restructuring of the sector.
Credentials: Registered with Ministry of Economy Accounts Auditors Department with
registration number 137, Member of Energy Institute (MEI) – UK, Certified Public
Accountant (CPA), Master in Business Administration (MBA).
