Sonali Verma

Sonali Verma works with newsrooms all over the world to help them transform their business models and embrace a data-driven culture. 

She was a director at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, where she worked for 15 years. As the editor managing digital production and audience engagement teams, she led a mind shift in getting journalists to understand how data could make them more effective in attracting and retaining subscribers, while staying true to their mission to build a better Canada. She also collaborated with The Globe’s data science team on an artificial-intelligence and machine-learning platform called Sophi.io, which is now used by publishers on five continents. She was Sophi’s senior product manager and director of customer success, and also oversaw marketing efforts that won several international awards.

She has also worked as a consultant on digital transformation projects for companies such as FT Strategies, the consultancy arm of The Financial Times.

She was previously the editor of Globe Investor, an editor at Bloomberg News, a senior producer at CNBC and one of 10 young journalists chosen worldwide for the coveted Reuters Trainee program.