Bill Russo
Founder & President
SYNERGISTICS (CHINA)
Senior Advisor
BOOZ & COMPANY (USA)

Snapshot: International business development advisory firm focused on building successful partnerships in Asia

Bill Russo has extensive experience in the automotive and electronics industries, with more than 25 years of experience at driving strategy and performance improvement in Fortune 500 environments. In his role the first Vice President of North East Asia automotive operations, Bill successfully negotiated and secured government approval for 6 vehicle programs within a 3-year time period with 3 different Asian partners. In this time period, he launched a regional holding company as well as 2 distribution companies. Bill oversaw the industrialization of the first Chrysler and Dodge-branded vehicles in Asia. As head of Product & Business Strategy, Bill led the integration of 3 key planning functions: strategic planning, long-range product planning and the capital investment plan. He had played a major role in achieving a major business turnaround by strengthening operational transparency through deployment of a system-wide balanced scorecard. His work earned international acclaim and was featured in leading business journals (Harvard Business Review, Controlling magazine). Bill has a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York.