About Sonita
Sonita is a collaborative and effective board member with unique insight and foresight focused on long-term value creation.
Sonita’s Areas of Expertise
Sonita Lontoh is a public company board director, strategic advisor, and former Fortune 100 senior executive who focuses on digital innovation, sustainability, and cybersecurity — contributing positive impact to businesses, consumers, and society.
Sonita has extensive global experience: North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. She is an independent "big picture" thinker in innovation, digital transformation, and customer experience for public companies' boards looking to leverage disruptive technologies and innovation to meaningfully transform their industries and drive growth. She serves on the National Association of Corporate Director (NACD)’s Blue Ribbon Commission on board culture on the NACD/World Economic Forum/CGI’s Climate Advisory Council. She is NACD-directorship certified, NACD’s climate governance-certified, the Digital Directors Network’s cybersecurity-certified, and completed the Stanford’s Directors College.
Diverse & Global Experience
Sonita’s Current Work
She currently serves as an independent board director of Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the largest consumer solar-and-battery-as-a-service company in the U.S. and of TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI), a global mission-driven workforce solutions company who connected ~2 million people to work in the past 3 years, serving on the Audit, Compensation, Nominating & Governance, and Innovation & Technology committees.
Sonita also currently serves on the advisory board of UC Berkeley Engineering's Jacobs Institute of Design Innovation and as an advisor to Sway Ventures, a VC firm investing in early to mid stage category-creating enterprise or consumer companies.
Sonita’s Previous Experience
Previously, her diverse 25-year leadership career included strategy, new category creation, marketing, and customer experience at both new, high-growth disruptive businesses at global Fortune 100 companies with combined revenues of ~$200B (HP, Siemens, PG&E) and at smaller, more entrepreneurial venture-backed Silicon Valley technology startups (Trilliant, GridNet).
She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, and the University of California Berkeley.
Recognition
Invited by the White House to speak at President Obama’s Entrepreneurship Summit and by Secretary of State Kerry to discuss energy transformation.
Recognized by Secretary of State Clinton for global mentorship, and invited to the White House to attend AAPI Women Champion of Change celebration.
Contributor
Wall Street Journal
The Economist
The World Economic Forum
Forbes
Bloomberg
TIME
CNN
NBC
Reuters
The BBC
MIT Technology Review