Sonal Agrawal

With over 25 years of experience, Sonal founded and is the Managing Partner for Accord /AltoPartners India. She serves clients in Private Equity, Conglomerates, Financial Services for Board, CEO and CXO searches.

Sonal co-founded and serves as the first woman / Asian Chair for AltoPartners, the leading global partnership of executive search and leadership consulting firms across 60+ offices the Americas, EMEA and APAC. She also serves on the global and regional boards of the AESC as well as on the boards of Accord, ABC Consultants. She has held global network roles at YPO (Young Presidents Organization, a peer network of 30,000+ global leaders in 100+ nations).

She also anchors the Board and Diversity practices for the firm, and serves on the FICCI Diversity & Inclusion task force, and is a frequent advocate, moderator and speaker on leadership, gender and diversity, and has authored a number of articles on careers, women at work and D&I. AltoPartners was among the first 10 companies to sign the AESC diversity pledge. She was intrumental in conceptualizing the annual ET Prime Womens Leadership Awards, where Accord partners with ET Prime to run an annual a nationwide search aimed at recognizing exceptional women leadets over various categories.

An MBA from the London Business School, Sonal has been named by the Economic Times as one of the Top 10 Headhunters in India, by Businessweek, USA as one of the 150 Most Influential Headhunters in the World, 2008 and by Business Today magazine as one of the Next 30 Most Powerful Women in business. She also was awarded the YFLO Women Achiever Award by FICCI FLO, and Is regularly featured in Linked In’s Leaders That Inspire Annual Asia yearbooks