Roberto Russo is the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at CNH Industrial. He advises the governing bodies on the main legal issues and risks concerning the Company. Mr. Russo also serves as Board Secretary to the CNH Industrial Board of Directors.
He was appointed as Senior Vice President and a member of the Company’s Global Leadership Team in 2021. Prior to this Mr. Russo served as General Counsel of CNH from its establishment in 2013, resulting from the merger of CNH Global and Fiat Industrial. He was previously General Counsel and Board Secretary of Fiat Industrial and General Counsel of Fiat Group from 2004 to 2011, where he also served as Board Secretary until 2014. Prior to being named to these roles, he covered roles of increasing seniority within Fiat Group from his joining in 1986. Roberto Russo was admitted to the Italian Bar in 1985 and began his career as an attorney at law in a private firm in Turin, Italy.
Roberto Russo holds a Master of Laws (LLM) with Distinction in Corporate and Commercial Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom; graduated summa cum laude with a Juris Doctor degree in Law from the University of Turin, Italy; and holds diplomas in Business Law, Finance, and ESG from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, USA.