Russell is a Business Transformation Professional with 25 years of experience in initiative management and a specific focus on enterprise-wide business transformation and business excellence deployments. Russell has built Transformation and Operational Excellence teams that have delivered over $25 billion in quantified benefits (incremental revenue or cost savings) driven through implementation of lean management programs (integrated voice-of-customer driven strategy execution driven by linked and cascaded goal/metric/behavior models).

Russell is a Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Project Management Professional (PMP), and Vendor Management Professional. He is an MIT Alum and has a proven record of leading successful transformation with industry leaders like eBay, Microsoft, McKinsey & Co., GM, Toshiba, and AT&T.