Sonia Cheng

FTI ConsultingManaging Director Information Governance Privacy and Security, EMEA Practice Leader,

Sonia Cheng is a Senior Director within FTI’s Technology Consulting practice, currently leading the EMEA Information Governance & Compliance (IG&C) practice. She is a trusted advisor to some of the world’s largest financial services, insurance, pharmaceutical and energy firms. Sonia possesses unique insights on the intersection across the diverse disciplines of records management, privacy, e-discovery, compliance, risk, security, operations and IT.

Sonia’s diverse, hands-on experience enables her to lead a broad range of data related programmes. Her domain expertise and diversity of experience results in a unique and effective approach towards gaining executive approval and enabling sustained IG transformation. Having worked on highly complex matters, Sonia and the IG&C team are prepared for any challenge a client may present, enabling her clients to take pragmatic steps towards strategic IG success.

Sonia previously led the Information Governance practice at IBM where she was responsible for leading global programmes to implement legal holds, in-house eDiscovery process optimisation and records management. She also worked with firms to perform remediation of unstructured, structured and backup data. She has held consulting leadership and financial analysis roles at PSS Systems, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, where she handled large mission critical financial systems, audit applications and conducted vendor evaluation efforts.