Sheila Hooda

Board Director at Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company & Virtus Investment Partners

Speaker

Sheila Hooda is an independent board director and business leader with a breadth of global operating, financial and technology expertise. She is the CEO & President of Alpha Advisory Partners providing strategic advisory services to C-Suites of Financial, Business & Professional services firms facing digital, market or regulatory disruption. Ms. Hooda is a former C-level executive with 30 years of leadership expertise noted for successfully leading customer-centric transformations, driving growth & strategic development at Fortune 500 firms. She is a published thought leader and speaker on Governance, Strategy & Leadership. Directors & Boards Magazine honored her as a Director to Watch 2016; NACD Directorship and C-Suite magazines have profiled her in their Board Spotlight.

Ms. Hooda serves on the board of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company, a Fortune 350 full-service, multi-line organization providing insurance, banking and financial products where she sits on the Audit and the Compensation Committees and previously served on the Risk and the Investment Committees. She also serves on the board of Virtus Investment Partners (NASDAQ: VRTS), a leading investment management firm where she serves on the Audit and the Risk and Finance Committees. From1998-2014 Ms. Hooda was the Global Head of multiple functional and operating areas at TIAA, Credit Suisse Investment Bank and Thomson Reuters. She has led businesses in the US, Europe, Asia, and started her career in the USA as a strategy management consultant with McKinsey & Co.

Ms. Hooda’s sectors of expertise include Technology, Information and Professional services; FinTech and InsurTech; Insurance; Asset and Wealth management; Capital Markets; Investment and Retail banking; Global Financial Services, Education and Regulated entities. Her key distinguishing functional experience spans: Global business operations incl. Asia/India; Finance, Capital Markets, M&A; Long-Term strategy development, Transformation from B2B to B2B2C; Client centricity, P&L management, Sales, Marketing, Data analytics; Digital Technology & Disruptive Innovation.

In addition, Ms. Hooda serves on boards and think tanks focused on Global Policy, Education and Women’s Empowerment including The Council on Foreign Relations, Demand Institute, Pratham (education), Medha (vocational development) and formerly Women’s World Banking (micro enterprise), The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, The Harvard Kennedy Center of Public Leadership and The World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council. Ms. Hooda has also initiated and mentored Diversity and Inclusion programs.

Ms. Hooda has a MBA with a specialization in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is an alumna of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She has been recognized by the National Association of Corporate Directors as a Board Leadership Fellow and has completed the Carnegie Mellon University CERT Certificate in Cyber Security Oversight.