Sheetal Vyas

Sheetal Vyas is Managing Director at Virgin Unite, the independent non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group. She has held director roles focused on strategy, innovation, and investment, including as the founding Executive Director of the International Fund for Public Interest Media and a Director at the Larry Ellison Foundation covering finance, strategy, and innovation. She has previously acted as an Advisory Board member at Do it Now Now, an open innovation organisation committed to the social empowerment of Black communities, and a Trustee for CodeBrave Foundation, which works to create lasting social change by funding tech education for children and adolescents from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Sheetal began her career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers where she spent over 20 years working in its private and public sector practices advising clients on: innovation-led strategy; working in venture capital with technology start-ups; delivering innovation and entrepreneurship programmes; and managing public-private partnerships. Now based in the UK, Sheetal has lived and worked in India and Zimbabwe and has delivered projects across 25 countries in Asia and Africa.