Tony Saldanha is a best-selling author and former senior executive of Fortune 20 companies who writes on digital and business transformation.
Tony is currently CEO and co-founder of Inixia, the standards and certification body for the Shared Services industry. He is a sought-after keynote speaker and prolific writer, who also advises over twenty Fortune 500 companies at the CXO and board level on digital strategy and global business services.
Tony has over three decades of international executive experience in the US, Europe, and Asia. He was named on Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Professionals list in 2013. During a twenty-seven-year career at Procter & Gamble, Tony held executive roles in digital marketing services, CIO positions, global business services, acquisitions and divestitures, outsourcing, disruptive innovation, data and analytics services, and new business models. He ran Global Business Services and IT for all P&G’s business units and 75 countries, as well as the Business Intelligence and Analytics function for P&G. As part of the latter position, Tony created new award-winning analytics and algorithm driven business models for selling, marketing, manufacturing and finance.
In 2005, Tony served as CIO for the $10Bn Gillette company, after P&G had acquired it. In this role, Tony delivered a highly complex integration of all commercial areas within 18 months to help create one the most successful acquisition integration success stories in the industry.
In 2003, Tony successfully program-managed the $8Bn outsourcing of IT and Shared Services for P&G. This was the largest outsourcing deal in the industry at the time.
He is also a founder of two blockchain and AI companies, and an adviser to venture capital companies. His best-selling book titled Why Digital Transformations Fail was released globally in July 2019. Tony’s second book, Revolutionizing Business Operations, co-authored with Filippo Passerini was released in September 2023.
Tony's governance extends to advisory roles at Workfusion, Vyn, Grafhopper, the Shared Services and Outsourcing Network, Intelligent Automation and AI network, and positions on the IT Advisory Boards at the University of Cincinnati, Indiana University Business Intelligence program, and the University of Texas. He has contributed to Customer Advisory Boards for Cloudera, Box, and High Radius, as well as venture capital organizations like Sequoia and BoldStart.
In the non-profit sector, Tony played a pivotal role as the founding member and Board Chair for the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati. Currently, he sits on the boards of Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati and Remineralize the Earth.
Tony, alongside his wife and two daughters, resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. A perpetual learner, Tony's curiosity drives him to continually experiment with new skills and subjects, a trait that has fortunately not led to any explosive outcomes — yet.