From Execution to Enterprise Impact 

September 29-30, 2026  |  Virtual 
Tony Saldanha

Tony Saldanha

Former P&G VP GBS; Co-Founder Inixia
Tony Saldanha
Tony Saldanha leads Next Generation Shared Services for P&G’s Global Business Services (GBS). He is responsible for innovating and constantly evolving Procter & Gamble’s best-in-class shared services operation. Before moving to his current role, Tony led Business Intelligence and Consumer Services globally at Procter & Gamble. Tony’s career at P&G began in 1991 in Marketing and Research & Development Systems in India. He has since had several IT and Shared Service assignments globally, including in Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Geneva, Boston and currently Cincinnati. Tony has held various positions including interim-CIO during the integration of the Gillette IT organization into P&G, as well as program manager for P&G’s successful multi-billion outsourcing deals with HP, JLL, and IBM. Tony has been co-chair of P&G’s Asia-Pacific American Leadership Team, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati, and been on the Advisory Board of Indiana University Analytics program and the University of Cincinnati IT Department. In his spare time, Tony likes to travel and stays busy with various hobbies, including carpentry, gardening, and cooking. A native of India, Tony earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s of business administration from the Indian Institute of Management. He is married to Julia and has two children. Tony currently resides in Cincinnati.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

9:20 AM The GBS Industry Standards: Leapfrogging Maturity in a Changing Context

The Alliance for Professional Excellence in Global Business Services (APEX GBS) has developed the first practitioner-led standards defining GBS as an enterprise operating model.   
 
Version 2 expands the original standards with deeper, practical guidance on applying AI, strengthening data and decision capabilities, and scaling GBS beyond transactional work. It also reflects how the role of GBS is evolving, with greater responsibility for enterprise data, insight, and decision support. 
 
This is an opportunity to hear some of the most well-known names in the GBS industry talk about how they would deal with the dramatically changing GBS world. What undying GBS approaches could be reapplied to leapfrog GBS maturity.