Sonal Shah

Sonal Shah is a Partner at Greenwood Place. Before joining the Greenwood Place team, she was Chief Executive of The London Community Foundation from 2009 to 2016, having joined the organisation in 2005 under its previous incarnation as the South East London Community Foundation.

Under her leadership, the Foundation was transformed into a leading London grant maker and community philanthropy charity investing around £5 million a year into a vast range of social issues across the capital. Sonal is currently a trustee of Hestia. She has also served as a trustee of Centre for London and UK Community Foundations.

Other voluntary roles include working for the Samaritans, a local homeless shelter, a children's reading project and teaching English in Nepal. Sonal began her career with the John Lewis Partnership after graduating from Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.