Ronald W. Wong is a respected and renowned business, political and community leader. He is a successful business owner who is committed to diversity, and has lent his considerable leadership skills to building successful organizations.
As President and CEO of Imprenta Communications Group, Inc. an award-wining public affairs, campaign and ethnic marketing firm, Mr. Wong oversees a multi-million dollar business. He develops and implements marketing, media, and communications strategies for the firm’s most prominent clients. Mr. Wong is a successful entrepreneur whose company made Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 Fastest-Growing Companies in America two years in a row (2015 and 2016). He has more than 30 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies, government entities, and prominent elected o!cials on public relations, political, and communications strategies.
Mr. Wong has built a mission-driven company. Imprenta’s mission is to empower communities of colors by giving them a voice and communicating to them in ways that respects their diversity and understands their culture. The company’s clients share this philosophy and commitment to educating hard-to-reach, culturally and linguistically isolated communities. Imprenta’s clients are some of the largest companies and organizations in California, including Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Gas Company, Health Net, NBCUniversal, Frontier Communications, The California Endowment, and government entities throughout the state.
Mr. Wong’s work on behalf of his clients is recognized as “best in the business,” and he has received nearly 100 individual awards including Boutique Agency of the Year from Bulldog Reporter, and awards for creative ads and successful campaigns. The Los Angeles Business Journal recognized Mr. Wong as the Asian Business Advocate of the Year 2013, and he was a semi-finalist for the Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017 and 2016. He has also been honored by the State Senate, State Assembly, Los Angeles City Council, Organization of Chinese Americans, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Chinese American Elected O!cials, Asian Business Association, Korean American Federation, and the Organization of Chinese Americans, among others.
Prior to founding Imprenta, Mr. Wong served on the senior staff of some of the country’s most prominent elected o!cials including California Governor Gray Davis, Speaker of the Legislature Willie Brown, State Senator Art Torres, L.A. County Supervisor Ed Edelman, and as a political appointee in President Clinton’s Administration at the U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Services (CRS).
From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Wong served as the chief deputy appointments secretary to California Governor Gray Davis. In this position, he served on the governor’s senior staff and advised Governor Davis on filling the more than 3,000 appointments to various commissions, boards and exempt positions in the governor’s administration. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Wong served as founding partner of Lang, Murakawa & Wong (LMW), one of the nation’s very first multicultural strategic communications and public relations firms.
Mr. Wong received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a recipient of the Sloan Foundation Fellowship at the University of Washington, Graduate School of Public Affairs, and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs program at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business.