Speaking & EVents

• Driving Product-Led Growth & Revenue with Marketing
• PR Strategies for Turning a Tech Founder into a Thought Leader
• Lessons from a Metric-Driven Dashboard CMO
• Building Startups: Brand, Moats, Pricing, Teams, & More

• Personal Brand: Why It Matters & How to Create One
• Preparing for Career Pivots and Career Scale
• Embracing Change
• How to Add Social Causes to your Life & Change the World

• How to Add Social Causes to your Life & Change the World
• Gender Equality & Gender Justice
• Why I Chose to Run Dual Tracks in Tech & Non-Profit

Given at the SHS TEDx event: How Individuals Can Fundamentally Change a Community

• Startup Pitch Judge at Guild, 2021

• You Have an Idea for an Amazing Startup. What Next? The Expat Woman, 2021
• SaaS, Product Lead Growth, B2B Marketing Strategies, StartupBootKamp, 2021
• Innovation, Growth, CAC/LTV & SaaS, StartupBootKamp, 2020
• Why Brand Building is Critical in Early Stage Startups, The Expat Woman, 2020
• B2B SaaS Scale talk at Product-Led Summit hosted by the ProductLed Institute, 2020  
• How to turn a tech founder into a thought leader, MindMeldPR vlog, 2020 
• 3 Ideas to Jolt your B2B Demand Generation, Videocast, True Influence Podcast, 2020
• How Product-Led Growth can Propel your SaaS Company to Success, without a Sales Team, article, TNW News, 2020
• Importance of Consume Education in Today’s Data Driving Purchasing Journey (part of expert opinion article), CMS WIRE, 2020
• Marketing Trends in 2020 (part of expert opinion article), The Weekly Trends, 2019 
• Importance of a Customer Advocacy Program at a Startup (part of expert opinion article), The Weekly Trends, 2019 

• Fireside Chat with Nioma Sadler, CEO & Founder of WomenServe, Global Leaders of the World, How Women Lead, 2021
• Helping Women Climb the Ladder, Two Girls Talking Podcast, 2020
• Get On Board, video promoting corporate board diversity for How Women Lead, 2020
• Career Pivots and Job Search in the Time of Corona, webinar at The Expat Woman, 2020 
• 10 Successful Women in STEM & Tech Share How They Are Balancing Life and Work During Covid-19, article, Entrepreneur magazine, 2020 
• Carpe Diem, inspirational speech at EMPOWERED conference hosted by The Expat Woman,  2020
• Tackling Extreme Work Life Balance, interview, Authority magazine, 2020
• Lifelong learning and leadership in Silicon Valley, interview on The India Edit Podcast, 2020

• Rethinking Social Impact During the Pandemic Examining Healthcare, Education and Domestic Violence, Panelist at event hosted by Neythri, 2020 
• VOICES: A conversation on Domestic Violence, Radio Zindagi, 2020 
• South Asian Teens & Familial Support, Between Friends Podcast, Maitri, 2020
• Mission to Mars & the Prom, inspirational speech at Maitri Teen Convention, 2020
• Gender Inequality & Intimate Partner Violence, Between Friends Podcast, Maitri, 2019

Recipient of numerous awards, TEDx and inspirational speaker, venture capitalist, and passionate feminist from age 14, Sonya Pelia has led a dual career: Chief Marketing Officer and thought leader building systems and driving revenue for venture-backed tech startups, and as President of the award-winning Maitri, a non-profit dedicated to ending domestic violence in Silicon Valley.

Sonya is disrupting the venture capital landscape as a Founding LP at the VC fund How Women Invest, mentors tech founders at Tech for Good Alley and Alchemist Accelerator, and is advisor to early stage startups OneTap and Doctors Under the Radar.

Sonya is a marketing executive with a passion for building tech startups. She doubled the revenue at her last B2B SaaS company in 12 months, without a sales team. A passionate feminist since age 14, Sonya is a leader, board member and President at the award-winning, non-profit Maitri.