BONNIE LIN

BIO

BONNIE LIN is a strategy advisor, investor, and speaker with over 20 years of experience driving growth at the intersection of public, private, and philanthropic capital. As Managing Director of The Rainmakers Global, Bonnie advises US and APAC family offices, corporates, and governments on accelerating innovation and scaling impact. Bonnie is a Board Trustee of The Fogarty Foundation and an advisor to Berkeley Skydeck accelerator and Curtin University. She has served on the Investment Committee of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2), R&D Grants Committee of Pacific Northwest Defense Coalition, and board of the US District Export Council. 

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Bonnie taps her expertise in change leadership, venture capital, and economic development in global innovation ecosystems to deploy strategic capital for sustainable, shared prosperity. Her diverse background spans marketing for 1990s dot coms turned tech giants, lean manufacturing and cross-border M&A in Taiwan and China, and venture investing under the Obama Administration during the Great Recession. Bonnie founded 4 businesses, including a tech startup and a real estate investment firm, and has coached Fortune 500 executives, nonprofit leaders, and Shark Tank founders, from Silicon Valley and Singapore to the Australian outback. 

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Following a childhood in a Buddhist monastery, raising two stepchildren with special needs, and cancer, Bonnie is led by a purpose to support the responsible transfer of wealth, knowledge, and power for the next generation. She advocates for economic mobility through education, entrepreneurship, and women in leadership, mentoring founders and emerging fund managers. 

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Bonnie lives in San Francisco and Perth, is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and holds a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, MBA from the University of Phoenix, and executive certificates in Venture Capital & Economics from Berkeley School of Law and Columbia Business School.