CEO & President, Alpha Advisory Partners
Sheila Hooda is the CEO and President of Alpha Advisory Partners, where she provides strategic advisory services to firms facing digital, market, or regulatory disruption. Previously, Ms. Hooda served as Global Head of multiple functional and operating areas at TIAA, Credit Suisse Investment Bank, Thomson Reuters, and McKinsey & Co.
Over a 30-year career, she has been recognized for leading customer-centric transformations and driving growth and strategic development at Fortune 500 companies.
Ms. Hooda serves on the Board of Directors of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, a Fortune 350 financial services company, and Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS), a leading investment management firm.
She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is also a Board Leadership Fellow.
Areas of Expertise: Leadership, Board Governance, Finance & M&A, Corporate Strategy, Digital and Customer-Centric Transformation, Innovation.
Sarder TV Anchor & Former Bloomberg TV Journalist
Vaishali has been working in the media industry & Journalism for more than 14 years. She had her own CEO talk show on Bloomberg TV India called Biz Lounge, a show that she anchored and produced. Biz Lounge explored the business aspects of each company, as well as the company's leadership, corporate culture, as well as each leader's personal side including how he/she spent their free time.
Prior to that, she worked as a Management Consultant in the finance industry in New York City. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Management with a concentration in Finance and her Master’s degree in Organizational Psychology.