Bonnie Fong is a 25+ year veteran of the banking and finance industry, most recently as a Vice President for Global Banking & Markets at Goldman Sachs. As Business Unit Manager for the Midwest Region, she oversaw strategic and operational initiatives for Goldman Sachs’s corporate finance advisory and mergers & acquisitions business in the 13-state region. An active and engaged leader for numerous firmwide initiatives, Bonnie served as Co-Head of the Chicago Diversity Network, Lead Champion for the firm’s global volunteerism program, Co-Captain of the Investment Banking recruiting team for Boston College and Ambassador for the firm’s One Million Black Women initiative. In her career as an investment banker, Bonnie executed M&A and financing transactions for Fortune 500 companies as part of Goldman Sachs’s Global Industrials Group and served clients within the bank, thrift and specialty finance sectors for J.P. Morgan’s Financial Institutions Investment Banking group in New York.
Bonnie holds a B.S. in Management with a concentration in Finance from Boston College. She is registered through FINRA as a Series 79 Investment Banking Representative and as a Series 7 General Securities Representative. Bonnie serves as Board Chair for the Chinese American Service League, the largest social services agency in the Midwest serving Asian Americans. She is a current member and past Grants Committee member of the University of Chicago Women’s Board. Bonnie is also a past Executive Director and Board Treasurer for the Neighborhood Parents Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families in Chicago.
Bonnie and her husband Rob Levin are long-time residents of Chicago and together have four grown children living in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. She is an active community volunteer who enjoys cooking at home, dining out and travel. Bonnie is also a fitness enthusiast who has run the Chicago Marathon and is an avid reader with a goal of finishing 52 books each year.