Sonia Powar is Chair of the Investment Committee at Frog Capital which helps scale-up investors in high-growth European software companies making a positive social impact. Its strategy is based on selecting the best scale-up phase investments and empowering technology CEOs to grow fast, by deploying its capital, its network and its support.

Sonia qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London in 1991 and then moved to 3i plc, UK’s leading private equity and growth capital investor. In 2013, she joined a venture debt start-up in the alternative lending space called BOOST&Co as a Partner. From humble beginnings in a tiny office with a couple of colleagues, over 8 years she helped build the business into a top 5 non-bank lender to SMEs in the UK specialising in the TMT space. BOOST&Co created a distinctive culture, recruited a diverse team of 60 professionals across the UK and Cape Town and provided capital to over 150 portfolio companies.