Salvatore Russo

Head of Strategy and Service Enablement AstraZeneca

With more than 10 years in GBS, Salvatore Russo contributed to establish and develop shared services on a global basis.

Currently, Salvatore is the GBS Strategy Director in AstraZeneca and he joined in April 2018 after 10 years in Vodafone when he was leading the Strategy and Engagement team for the past 3 years.

Salvatore contributed in creating one of the largest and admired Shared Services in the world and his primary focus was to establish shared services capabilities in different geography but also to strategize the overall services and footprint expansion together with the customer engagement and GBS brand awareness and promotion.

Before his Vodafone days, Salvatore worked in ExxonMobil operation centre in Budapest helping the team to adopt a continuous improvement mindset and tools.