John Saffrett is Deputy Chief Executive Officer of ALD and responsible for the operational management of the company’s 1.7 million vehicles across 43 markets, which includes client solutions and sales & business development, as well as managing the company’s IT and digitalization development strategy.
John Saffrett has held various roles within ALD from 1997 to 2006, starting out in Sales Account Management for the Group’s subsidiary in the UK before being appointed IT Director UK from 2002. In 2006, he joined Fimat/Newedge UK, now Societe Generale Prime Services, as Europe CIO and Global Head of Corporate IT Services and went on in 2011 to become Program Director of Fimat/Newedge UK. He returned to ALD in 2015 as Chief Administrative Officer and went on to become Chief Operating Officer in 2017. He was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of ALD in 2019.
John Saffrett holds a Bachelor’s degree in IT from Hertfordshire University and an MBA from Nottingham Trent University.