Shalni Arora

Shalni Arora is CEO of Savannah Wisdom, a private family charitable foundation, and an investor in life science businesses.

Shalni qualified as an accountant at Arthur Andersen and then moved to AstraZeneca. She is one of the founders of DxS Limited, a venture capital backed, personalised medicine biotech business which she spun out from AstraZeneca and then successfully exited.

She is a Non-Executive Director of Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Innovation Committee which is focussed on digital technologies to advance child healthcare. She is a Board member of Alder Hey Children’s Charity, a founding Trustee of Belong - the Cohesion and Integration Network, a member of the Network for Social Change and a member of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Council.

Shalni also works for several charities and not-for-profit organisations through her own foundation.

She has received the Beacon Award for Philanthropy and a Medal of Honour from Manchester University for her contribution to the city.