Sonal regularly speaks at various reputed forums and educational institutions including IIM Bangalore and has been a faculty member for a seminar course on ‘Cloud Computing’ at the National Law School, Bangalore. Sonal has also co-authored a write-up on ‘Bitcoins’ and ‘Data Science to Drive Good Governance’ which were published in international journals.

Sonal, an active volunteer with an NGO that emphasizes the importance of children’s education, holds a BLS, LLB degree from Government Law College, Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Laws from the National Law School of India University. She has a Master of Laws degree in Corporate and Commercial Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She has also completed her executive leadership program from Cornell University, USA.

With several articles authored by her on IT and outsourcing to the credit, Sonal has been recognized as one of the top General Counsels in India for two consecutive years by BW Legal World and listed amongst the finest in-house counsels by the Indian Corporate Counsel Association.