# Sheila Hooda

> Sheila Hooda is the founder, CEO and president of Alpha Advisory Partners and an independent director whose career spans management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy and board governance. After senior roles at McKinsey, Bankers Trust, Credit Suisse, TIAA and Thomson Reuters, she founded her advisory firm in 2013 and now serves on the boards of Enact Holdings, Alera Group and AGL Private Credit Income Fund, bringing a consistent focus on scenario planning, customer-centered transformation and risk oversight.

- **Role:** CEO, President and Founder at Alpha Advisory Partners; independent director at Enact Holdings and Alera Group; trustee at AGL Private Credit Income Fund
- **Organizations:** Alpha Advisory Partners, Enact Holdings, Alera Group, AGL Private Credit Income Fund, Thomson Reuters, TIAA, Credit Suisse, Bankers Trust, Andersen Consulting, McKinsey & Company, Mutual of Omaha, Virtus Investment Partners, ProSight Global, ScION Tech Growth I, ScION Tech Growth II, Council on Foreign Relations, National Association of Corporate Directors
- **Education:** B.S. in Mathematics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, PGDM in Management, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- **Known for:** Named to BoardProspects' Exceptional Private Company Directors list in 2026., Named to Women’s Inc. Magazine’s Most Influential Directors list in 2025, announced by Alera Group in January 2026., Honored in the NACD Directorship 100.

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Held leadership roles at Andersen Consulting and McKinsey & Company, beginning her U.S. career as a management consultant at McKinsey.
- **Later** — Held leadership roles at Bankers Trust and became a managing director in Credit Suisse's Global Investment Banking Division.
- **Before 2013** — Served in senior managing director roles spanning strategy, M&A and corporate development at TIAA.
- **Before 2013** — Served as global head of strategy and business development in the Financial & Risk division's Investors segment at Thomson Reuters.
- **2013** — Founded Alpha Advisory Partners to advise financial and business-services companies on strategy, turnaround, transformation, customer centricity and digital business models.
- **2016-2020** — Served on the board of Virtus Investment Partners, including its audit and risk and finance committees.
- **2016-2023** — Served on the Mutual of Omaha board, chairing its risk committee and serving on its compensation and evaluation committee.
- **2019-2021** — Served on the ProSight Global board, chairing nominating and governance and serving on audit and human resources committees.
- **2020-2023** — Chaired the audit committees of ScION Tech Growth I and ScION Tech Growth II during her respective board terms.
- **2021** — Joined the board of Enact Holdings; she now chairs nominating and corporate governance and serves on audit.
- **2024-02** — Joined the Alera Group board of directors.
- **2024-11** — Joined the AGL Private Credit Income Fund board of trustees and became chair of nominating and corporate governance.

## Achievements

- Named to BoardProspects' Exceptional Private Company Directors list in 2026.
- Named to Women’s Inc. Magazine’s Most Influential Directors list in 2025, announced by Alera Group in January 2026.
- Honored in the NACD Directorship 100.
- Named a Director to Watch by Directors & Boards magazine.
- Named among BoardProspects' 100 Asian Pacific Directors Making a Difference.
- Included in the inaugural Financial Times/Agenda D-100 list.
- Earned NACD Board Leadership Fellow status and NACD Directorship certification.
- Chaired nominating and governance, risk, and audit committees across multiple public and private organizations.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Named in an SEC-filed shareholder solicitation as an independent director nominee for Fermi Inc., with emphasis on transformational strategy and risk oversight.
- **2026-01** — Alera Group announced her selection for BoardProspects' Exceptional Private Company Directors and Women’s Inc. Magazine's Most Influential Directors lists.
- **2024-11** — Joined the board of trustees of AGL Private Credit Income Fund and became chair of its nominating and corporate governance committee.
- **2024-10** — Discussed election uncertainty, geopolitics, supply-chain resilience, shareholder activism and economic cycles in a Skytop Strategies boardroom interview.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilahooda
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O10_J994cw

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Last updated: 2026-08-26