Tony Saldanha
Tony Saldanha is a global industry founder within Global Business Services (GBS) and Digital Technology. He ran Procter & Gamble’s famed multi-billion-dollar GBS and IT operations in every region across the world during a 27-year career there.
Tony led the development of major trends in both GBS and IT, including offshoring, outsourcing, disruptive IT innovation, and many others. He has over three decades of international business expertise in the US, Europe, and Asia. Tony advises about 20 of the Fortune 100 organizations on digital strategy at the board or CXO levels.
Tony is also CEO and co-founder of Inixia, the global standards and certification body for the Shared Services industry. Tony is currently President of Transformant, a consulting organization on digital and shared services strategy. He is also a founder of two blockchain and AI companies, and an adviser to venture capital companies.
He was named on Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Professionals list in 2013. His book titled Why Digital Transformations Fail was released globally in July 2019 and ranked #1 on Amazon’s New Releases for Organizational Change, listed on publisher Berrett-Koehler’s best-sellers for July 2019, and recommended by various publishing forums like CEO-Reads, Book-Pal, CEO Library, and others. Forbes contributor Michelle Greenwald called it the “best business book ever that you’re yet to read”. Tony’s second book called Revolutionizing Business Operations is co-authored with Filippo Passerini. It will be released in September 2023.