Bonnie Lin

Board Trustee

2025 - Current

Djerassi Resident Artists Program (djerassi.org) is the largest artist residency in the Western US, situated on 583 acres in Woodside gifted by the Djerassi family and is now solely supported by an independent California 501c3 nonprofit that has provided 2,500+ fee-free artist residencies since 1979. Djerassi Resident Artists Program has hosted writers, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers, composers, and choreographers from 54 countries and all 50 states, with 66% of alumni who identify as female and non-binary. Over 100 are groundbreaking and award-winning creators, including John Adams, Viet Thanh Nguyen, John Roloff, Lava Thomas, and Sidra Bell. Strategic partners include Stanford Arts, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Villa Albertine, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN), and Leonardo/ISAST. The land is a rare jewel in the heart of Silicon Valley, featuring views of the Pacific Ocean features, over 90 large-scale art installations and sculptures, and accommodations for private residencies, group retreats, and events (resetatdjerassi.org).

Managing Director

2014

THE RAINMAKERS GLOBAL (TRG) provides strategic advisory and communications for organizations to achieve their mission of today and realize their vision for tomorrow by investing in innovation and impact at scale. TRG has been advising family offices, corporates, and governments on growth, innovation and transformation in the US and Asia Pacific since 2014. Our mission is to position humanity for a future of sustainable and equitable prosperity through collaborative leadership, action, and investment. We bridge global talent with local innovation ecosystems, combining financial, human and social capital to transform communities and economies through forward-thinking venture capital, impact investing, and technology-led economic development. STRATEGIC ADVISORY: - Corporates: Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) - Family Offices: Innovation & Impact Investment (I3) - Government: Technology-led Economic Development (TED) SPEAKING, FACILITATION & COACHING: - Change Leadership - Board Leadership & Innovation - Technology & Venture Capital - Impact Investing - Technology-led Economic Development - Startup Ecosystem Development - Strategic Engagement in Asia - Women in Leadership & Asset Allocation For more information, visit www.b2rainmakers.com

Co-Founder

2024

COVEN is a creative placemaking nonprofit accelerator supporting monumental artists for societal change. COVEN’s mission is to amplify the sidelined voices of women, BIPOC, and immigrants along their creative journey and activate the Third Places where art is made and displayed. Through an ecosystem of talent, funding, infrastructure, and support, COVEN weaves together doers and backers in service of the creators making powerful art that reflects freedom of expression, social agency, and economic mobility. COVEN’s ecosystem includes Third Place Hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area alone that represent 3,000 artists and display over 175 art installations, including Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The Box Shop, and Point San Pablo Harbor. Our strategic partners include Illuminate (Bay Lights Project), Building 180 (R-EVOLUTION), ThirdPlace Partners, and the Port of San Francisco.

Advisor

2023

Board Trustee

2020

Advancing Social Change through Education The Fogarty Foundation is committed to ensuring that all young people in Western Australia have the opportunity to receive high quality education. We work across the spectrum of the community enabling high quality school leadership, supporting the delivery of the foundations of learning through to future ready skills and capabilities. Transformational Leaders: - UWA Fogarty Scholarships - ANU Fogarty Scholarships Future Ready Students: - Fogarty EDfutures - CoderDojo WA @ Curtin - Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research - Perkins Profs Excellence in Teaching: - Fogarty EdVance - TeachWell Intensive - UWA Success through Educational Excellence - ECU Fogarty Learning Centre, Scholarships & Prizes - Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation - The Smith Family Learning for Life Fund - The Smith Family Community Engagement - Sports Challenge Australia - Perth Festival Education Program - Fogarty Literary Award - ABNC Fogarty Accelerate Scholarships - The Literature Centre - Western Australia Institute of Education Research https://fogartyedfutures.org.au

Investment Committee

2022 - 2023

Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) is a learning community of innovative givers committed to accelerating equity in the Bay Area through grantmaking and impact investing.

Indo-Pacific Non-Resident Fellow

2020 - 2021

The Perth USAsia Centre is Australia's leading think-tank for the strengthening of relationships between Australia, the Indo-Pacific and the United States. The Centre is a non-partisan, not-for-profit institution located at The University of Western Australia (UWA). The Centre focuses on geo-political issues, policy development and building a strategic affairs community across government, business and academia. Since the Centre’s inception we have collaborated with over 120 different partners, to host 500 events across 17 cities in 8 countries engaging a world-class community of over 13,000 attendees. - Indo-Pacific Regional Focus - Australia-Indo-Pacific-US Relations - 2020 US Election - Focus on Indonesia

VP of Business Growth & Innovation

2009 - 2013

Columbia River Economic Development Council (CREDC) is a non-profit leading economic development in the Portland Metro region of the Pacific Northwest. My role was to facilitate partnerships with over 40 public and private stakeholders for investment in startups, small business, and industry during the Great Recession through R&D grants, international trade/finance support, manufacturing innovation and entrepreneurship development programs to increase global competitiveness and job creation.

Director of Global Business Development & NA Operations

2000 - 2009

Global consumer products manufacturing corporation with 7 subsidiaries on 3 continents. Over the course of 9 years, held senior management roles in marketing, business development, supply chain management, M&A and continuous improvement in the US, Asia and Europe. Major projects included 3 acquisitions, IPO, ERP systems implementation, distribution operations setup/closures, lean manufacturing initiatives and CEO succession planning.

Education Product Management (EPM) Coordinator

2000 - 2000

Global enterprise software and data mining company. Role in Product Marketing included Knowledge Transfers/Training Plans, Life-Cycle Readiness Management process & internal customer courseware rollout. Major project was the WebEx pilot for online product training to global salesforce.