Jeffrey Salling, Esq. is the Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Operations at Moderna. In this role, he crafts the technology roadmaps for contracts, eBilling, budget, law firm management, and eDiscovery.
As Chief of Staff, Mr. Salling is a business partner with a law degree who focuses on continuous improvement, maximizing efficiencies, and employing metric-based decisions across the legal department. Before joining Moderna, Mr. Salling was the Global Director of eDiscovery at Novartis (having worked in Basel, Switzerland & East Hanover, New Jersey). He previously held high-ranking positions at Complete Discovery Source (CDS) and Deloitte in Chicago. Mr. Salling is an expert on the topic of legal technology and eDiscovery whose hands-on experience managing large-scale, challenging matters (including antitrust, intellectual property, and commercial litigation) gives him a unique perspective living in a digital world. While at Deloitte, Mr. Salling focused on learning how AI & analytics can be applied to the legal arena. Beginning at Deloitte and continuing through his current role, Mr. Salling is a passionate people leader. He also seeks to give back. Mr. Salling is a foster-adoptive parent and has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. He developed his own curriculum to give future professionals practice-ready skills in eDiscovery and data privacy. In his hybrid role at Moderna, Mr. Salling focuses on combining ‘the big picture’ and analytics in developing a legal department fit for purpose. He collaborates across data privacy, IT, security, IP, and compliance. Simply put, his goal is uniting people, processes, and systems on a global level to drive efficiencies and deliver exceptional work product to a business that is saving lives.