Talk:Mike Salvino

for next time
what I will say in 6 months at the 3rd afd:

"Attempt at an article, by a declared page editor. It's actually a promotional biography, suitable for the individuals web page. It contains jargon like "and he also led sales and account management across Accenture's outsourcing business"  an "Salvino created and began refining an "operational playbook" for organizational turnaround;  the playbook is people-centric  and focuses on three areas: employees, clients, and business." I do not think there's a single nPOV statement in the entire career section.

Almost all the sources are unreliable: PR outlets, like Business Wire--whose very purpose is to publish press releases, web sites of consulting firms, promotional interviews,  mere notices, placements on a list. Atthe previous afd it was asserted thatsome are reliable, but the others have not been removed. Possibly he's notable as president of a major company, but it would require us to discard this entire articles and itssources, and for some non-coi editor to write it properly.

That this was approved and twice kept is almost unbelievable. Normally in such cases I add the article to my hopeless file, but this is the worst of the sort I've seen kept  DGG ( talk ) 02:05, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Addressing Issues in the Warning Template
Hello, I’m an employee at DXC Technology, where the subject of this article is the CEO. Note: I previously disclosed a COI here with the account User:HJDXC, which I am permanently retiring since it includes the name of the company. I have some suggestions for some revisions to improve this page that will move toward addressing concerns raised on the “maintenance template” about possible WP:BOMBARD, WP:PRIMARY, WP:VERIFY and WP:ADMASQ. (Paid contributions, also listed in the template, were already disclosed on the Talk page in February 2021, so this item should not have been included as an action item to be addressed.)

I am refraining from doing direct edits myself because of the conflict of interest policy. Could an independent reviewer please review these proposals? Thank you.

1.

In the current Education section, I propose removing the two WP:PRIMARY citations and combining the two sentences with a single sentence. It conveys the same information and is based on a secondary source. I removed the date of graduation provided in the current version, since it is only found in a primary source. .

Also, I propose renaming the Education section as Early Life and Education, as this structure follows the format of Good Articles such as Heather Bresch and Shaygan Kheradpir.'''

From:

Education

Salvino attended Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. He graduated in 1987 with a BS in industrial engineering.

To:

Early Life and Education

Salvino attended Marietta College, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering.


 * The article doesn't include any information about his early life, so I am leaving the header as-is for now. If new information about Salvino's early life is added, then the section can be retitled. Otherwise I have updated the information as requested but retaining his graduation year and reference.  Spencer T• C 00:17, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

2.

The first two subsections in the Career section, Andersen Consulting 1987–2000 and Exult 2000-2006 subsections, contain numerous WP:PRIMARY sources and include some details that could be seen as WP:PROMOTIONAL.

I propose removing the primary sources and statements which cannot be supported with WP:RS secondary sources and revising the language in some areas to make it more WP:NPOV.

Also, I propose to replace these two subsections with a new subsection entitled “Early work”, as this structure follows that of Good Articles such as Heather Bresch and Shaygan Kheradpir

From:

Andersen Consulting 1987–2000 Salvino joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in 1987. He was made an associate partner in 1997. His focus as an associate partner was primarily on global information management outsourcing.

Exult 2000-2006 Salvino left Accenture in 2000 and joined Exult, Inc., a business process outsourcing (BPO) start-up focused on human resources, as its sales director. He rose to become the company's president of the Americas region in 2003, responsible for sales, accounts, and operations for Latin America, Canada, and the U.S. When Hewitt Associates acquired Exult in late 2004, he joined Hewitt in early 2005 as global sales and accounts co-leader for Hewitt’s HR outsourcing group, remaining there through 2006.

To:

Early work

Salvino’s first major position was with Andersen Consulting, where he became an associate partner in 1997. He later left the company for Exult Inc.. By 2003, he had been promoted to executive vice-president for North American client sales and accounts at Exult, and by April 2004 he was the company’s president for the Americas region. Before he left for Accenture in 2006, Salvino had been appointed global sales and accounts co-leader the HR outsourcing group of Hewitt, which had acquired Exult.

The 2004 Orange County Register article cited above is not available online. Here is an excerpt which shows Salvino’s title at the time:

"Anytime you get an award in an area where you want to grow -- retail -- it's very important to us," said Mike Salvino, president of the Americas region for Exult.”

3.

Within the Career section, the first two paragraphs of the Accenture 2006-2016 subsection contain numerous WP:PRIMARY sources. There are also some statements with excessive sourcing that may violate WP:BOMBARD, as well as some language that is potentially a WP:PROMOTIONAL and WP:NPOV problem. I propose replacing both with a single paragraph that removes potentially promotional language and replaces the primary and other excessive sources. It cites to a single secondary source that supports the entire paragraph.

From:

Salvino rejoined Accenture in 2006, as managing director of BPO, and he also led sales and account management across Accenture's outsourcing business.

In 2009 he became group chief executive of BPO, when Accenture combined its industry-specific and cross-industry BPO services into a stand-alone business unit. He oversaw Accenture's cross-industry (finance and accounting, HR, learning, procurement, marketing, and supply chain) and industry-specific BPO services (including credit services, health, network, pharmaceuticals, and utilities).

To:

Salvino joined Accenture in 2006 to serve as managing director of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). In September 2009, he was named Group Chief Executive of Business Process Outsourcing.

4.

In the “Career” section, “Accenture 2006-2016” subsection, the third and fourth paragraphs have numerous WP:PRIMARY sources, and in some cases statements simply have excessive sources and are potentially in violation of WP:BOMBARD. There is also some language that could be seen as WP:PROMOTIONAL. I propose replacing these two paragraphs with a single paragraph that has secondary sources and replaces promotional language with neutral statements..

From:

In 2014 Accenture combined its BPO services with its infrastructure and cloud services into Accenture Operations, and Salvino became group chief executive of Accenture Operations. He oversaw Accenture's comprehensive portfolio of business process services, as well as infrastructure, security, and cloud services.

In his final year leading Accenture Operations, it had 100,000 employees and posted 20% growth on over $7 billion in revenues. In leading this growth at Accenture Operations, Salvino created and began refining an "operational playbook" for organizational turnaround; the playbook is people-centric and focuses on three areas: employees, clients, and business. In 2017 he began writing extensively on leadership in Chief Executive magazine.

To:

In 2014, Salvino became group chief executive of Accenture Operations. As of 2016, when he left Accenture Operations, Salvino supervised 100,000 employees, with the division generating $7 billion in annual revenue.

5.

Within the Career section, the subsection Carrick Capital Partners 2016–2019 contains numerous statements that are either reliant on WP:PRIMARY sources or are arguably WP:PROMOTIONAL in nature. I propose removing the second paragraph entirely, and replacing the first one with a new version that removes details that are potentially promotional or cannot be supported with secondary sources. From:

Salvino left Accenture Operations in 2016 to join Carrick Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on business-to-business technology-enabled companies, as one of the firm's operating partners. By July 2018 he was a managing director of the firm. At Carrick he specialized in assisting companies regarding technology-enabled services including BPO, security, and machine learning.

In 2017, he became a founding board member and the first executive chairman of Infinia ML (originally called Unicorn ML), a machine learning start-up which was initiated in a Duke University research lab and was one of Carrick Capital's investments.

To:

In 2016, Salvino joined Carrick Capital Partners as one of the firm’s operating partners. He later became a managing director.

6.

In the Career section, the DXC Technology 2019–present subsection also contains numerous WP:PRIMARY sources and statements that are supported solely by those primary sources. It also has some statements which are excessively sourced, as well as some language that could be construed as WP:PROMOTIONAL.

I propose replacing the existing text of the subsection with new language and reliable secondary sources that address the issues outlined above, and which also adds new information about Salvino which was well covered in the press.

From:

In May 2019, Salvino joined the board of directors of DXC Technology. In September 2019, the company announced that he would succeed the retiring president and CEO Mike Lawrie, effective immediately. At the time DXC was struggling financially, losing contracts and customers, and in need of a turnaround.

In his first six months as president and CEO, Salvino hired new executive leadership, and, in order to begin returning the company to a state of profitability and focusing on core assets, sold DXC's state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital for $5 billion. He also made a variety of changes in organizational structure, strategy, operations, and implementation in order to more effectively meet clients' needs.

In May 2020 he announced that 3.5% of the workforce would be cut to eliminate unnecessary management layers, and in July 2020 he led the sale of DXC's healthcare provider software business to the Italy-based Dedalus Group. In September 2020, he made a number of additional leadership changes, including hiring several more Accenture veterans. In December 2020, Comparably included him in its annual list of the 50 Best CEOs of large companies in North America.

To:

In May 2019, Salvino joined the board of directors of DXC Technology, and in September of that same year he became CEO of the company.

In 2020, Salvino oversaw a deal to sell DXC's state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital for $5 billion in cash.

In 2021, Salvino rejected an offer from French IT firm Atos to acquire DXC. Salvino said the bid undervalued the company based on recent quarterly gains. ✅.

7.

The “Board Memberships” section in the article is based on WP:PRIMARY sources. I located a secondary source. I propose renaming this section “Other activities” in keeping with the structure of Good Articles such as Shaygan Kheradpir and Elon Musk.

From:

In addition to serving on the board of directors of DXC Technology, Salvino is on the board of directors of the Atrium Health Foundation. He is on the board of visitors of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, and on the board of trustees at Marietta College.

To:

Other activities

As of 2021, Salvino also serves on multiple boards outside of DXC Technology, including those of the Atrium Health Foundation, Marietta College, and the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering. Salvino has also written for Chief Executive magazine.

Thank you very much. Chiminpin12 (talk) 18:52, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅. Heartmusic678 (talk) 16:55, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

Request Edits July 2022
Hello, I’m an employee at DXC, the subject of this article. I am refraining from doing direct edits myself because of the conflict of interest policy. Another DXC employee, Chiminpin12, had been making requests but she no longer works at this company. since you most recently did a review of the proposals for this page, I am notifying you. Thanks

1. In the Career section, please add a subsection called Other activities and this sentence:

As of 2021, Salvino also serves on multiple boards outside of DXC Technology, including those of the Atrium Health Foundation, Marietta College, and the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.

. The sentence above had previously been approved by Heartmusic678 as a Request Edit (#7) on Feb 7, 2022, Talk:Mike Salvino but was removed by Yogiile on Feb, 26 on  as Promo. I thought this could be discussed here and perhaps a consensus decision reached.

I did further research and major board memberships are often viewed on Wikipedia as a significant part of someone’s career, as demonstrated in the following Good Articles (on the day they were approved for GA):, and.

Here, I replaced primary sources confirming board memberships with a solid local newspaper secondary source, confirmed by a Wall Street Journal CEO profile.

In the Career section, I’d like to propose two small edits to help improve article structure. None of these are changes of any substance or sourcing – it’s just re-arranging the placement of the dates for better flow between paragraphs.

2. Please change the fourth paragraph, first sentence that begins: “In 2016, Salvino joined Carrick Capital Partners…” to place the date at the end of the sentence:

“Salvino became an operating partner at Carrick Capital Partners in 2016.

3. Please replace the sixth paragraph that starts:

“In 2020, Salvino oversaw a deal to sell DXC's state and local…”

To:

Salvino oversaw a deal in 2020 to sell DXC's state and local health and human services business to Veritas Capital for $5 billion.

Thank you. Epictetusfollower (talk) 17:21, 12 July 2022 (UTC) Epictetusfollower (talk) 17:21, 12 July 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, I have one more request regarding the title for Mike Salvino - can his title in the Infobox be updated to Chairman, President and CEO?


 * occupation = Chairman, CEO and President of DXC Technology

His appointment as Chairman of this Fortune 500 company was announced in May (source: ) Chairman of the Board is a distinct job from CEO. As a reference, I looked at a few other company pages like Cigna, The Hershey Company, State Farm and Lockheed Martin, all of which list these titles for the leader.

If you have a chance, I’d like to request the same change at the page DXC Technology for the “Occupation” line.

Thanks. Epictetusfollower (talk) 16:27, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Sept. 2022 Proposals for Mike Salvino
I’d like to request two revisions to this page. As disclosed above, I have a Conflict of Interest.
 * In the “Education” section, I’d like to add a new second sentence. It’s about his being a starter on a college basketball team, which has plenty of press coverage from the time and is a relevant part of his biography:

Salvino was a starter for the Marietta Pioneers, the school’s basketball team, where he was a forward.

I’ve given two newspaper sources covering games but there are many more that cover his role in games. I found them on Newspapers.com, which is paywalled. Here are short outtakes from a couple, |Muskingum Eyes Fourth Straight: “Other starters include sophomore center Dave Copeland… and senior forward Mike Salvino (6-2), who nets 7.2.”  and |New Lineup Leads Denison Win: “Mike Salvino finished with 11 points for Marietta.”
 * Please add a new section called “Honors” underneath the section “Other professional activities”. It details his giving the commencement address at his alma mater and receiving an honorary doctorate:

Honors

Salvino delivered the 2021 commencement address for Marietta’s graduating class and was awarded an honorary doctorate degree.


 * Since you are familiar with the article from your previous review, would you mind taking a look at these two requested changes? Epictetusfollower (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Epictetusfollower (talk) 16:18, 30 September 2022 (UTC)


 * ✅ @Epictetusfollower I do not believe an Honors header is necessary at this time, but have completed remainder of the request.Heartmusic678 (talk) 18:09, 21 October 2022 (UTC)