About Sonita
Sonita is a collaborative and effective board member with unique insight and foresight focused on long-term value creation.
Sonita’s Governance and AI/Technology Expertise
Sonita Lontoh is a public company board director, strategic advisor, and former Fortune 100 senior executive who focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), technology innovation and digital transformations — 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 cyber risk oversight-certified, NACD’s climate governance-certified, the Digital Directors Network’s cybersecurity-certified, and completed the Stanford’s Directors College and the Harvard Business School programs on Audit and Compensation.
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 approximately 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 venture capital firm investing in the sustainable transformations of foundational industries.
Sonita’s Previous Experience
Previously, her diverse 25-year leadership career included strategy, new category creation, product marketing, and customer experience at both new, high-growth disruptive businesses at global Fortune 100 companies with combined revenues of approximately $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.
Awards
US National Women in Manufacturing Hall of Fame
Asian Hall of Fame
MIT Notable Women Alumni
Top 30 AAPI Directors
San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Woman 2023
San Francisco Business Times Woman to Watch 2025
Contributor
Wall Street Journal
The Economist
The World Economic Forum
Forbes
Bloomberg
TIME
CNN
NBC
Reuters
The BBC
MIT Technology Review