Leadership

Ronald W. Wong

Founder

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.  

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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 is a recognized leader in the community and key figure in business and politics.  In 2012, he was appointed to serve in President Obama’s Administration on the U.S. Small  Business Administration (SBA) Regulatory Fairness (RegFair) Board. Governor Davis appointed  Mr. Wong to the L.A. County Metro Board of Directors and the Board of Governors for the  California Community Colleges. He is the founder and creator of the Asian Pacific American  Leadership Foundation (APALF). In addition, he is the former co-chair of the Asian Business  Association, and Secretary of the California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce, and Member  of the Pacific Council on International Policy.  

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.