Bonnie So

“I have had the privilege of working closely with Bonnie So as an external workshop facilitator for the Women in Finance Asia (WiFA) community, and it is with great enthusiasm that I recommend her for her exceptional leadership qualities and invaluable contributions. Throughout our interactions over the past three years, Bonnie has consistently demonstrated her natural leadership abilities, meticulousness, and unwavering positivity. Her dedication and hard work have played a crucial role in steering WiFA to become one of the premier professional women's groups in Hong Kong. Bonnie's brilliant management skills have been instrumental in the organisation's success. One of her notable achievements lies in her focus on organising concrete and relevant content-focused events. By spearheading these events, Bonnie ensures that WiFA remains at the forefront of industry trends, providing timely and crucial insights to all its members. From my perspective, I have been truly impressed by Bonnie's ability to identify and prioritise relevant topics that resonate with the community. Her keen eye for industry trends and her thoughtful approach in curating event content have been invaluable in keeping the organisation dynamic and engaging. Furthermore, Bonnie's personable nature and responsiveness make her a pleasure to collaborate with. She values input from external facilitators, fostering a collaborative environment that brings out the best in everyone involved.”

“I recommend Bonnie So for her exceptional operational excellence, strategic planning, talent development, cross-divisional collaboration, and cyber security leadership skills. Bonnie's ability to promptly resolve issues and maintain operational efficiency ensures seamless day-to-day operations. Her insights in strategic planning shape long-term cybersecurity strategies, keeping us ahead in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Bonnie's talent development efforts, including VP and ED promotions, foster professional growth and identify exposure opportunities. She actively promotes cross-divisional collaboration, facilitating knowledge sharing and driving innovation. Bonnie's exceptional organization skills enable her to effectively manage diverse teams across Asia, even in remote settings. Her cyber security leadership is invaluable to our success.”

“Bonnie is highly committed to support NGOs in HK through her role at WIFA. She has been unrelenting at providing support to RUN Hong Kong over several years, and creating awareness about displaced communities at the same time. Bonnie's kindness and compassion are one of a kind.”

“I know Bonnie through being part of the ESG committee in Women in Finance Asia (WIFA). Bonnie has been a great leader who is always passionate, energetic, efficient, organized, and very well connected. Her tenacity and determination made her an exemplary supervisor and it was inspirational to work for her. Her charism and devoted passions have also made her to shine naturally in her leader role. It’s been my great pleasure working with you.”

“Bonnie is a natural leader. Extremely meticulous, incredibly hard working and always smiling no matter how many projects she is juggling, Bonnie has done a brilliant job over the past 3 years to steer WifA. She has been instrumental in making the organisation one of the best professional women's groups in Hong Kong, in my opinion. By spearheading concrete content focussed events she has helped WifA focus on relevant industry trends that are timely and crucial to all its members. I would highly recommend Bonnie for roles in professional leadership going forward.”

“I have known Bonnie for a number of years. I have had the pleasure of working with Bonnie through being the ESG Committee in Woman in Finance Asia (WIFA). Bonnie is very thoughtful, motivating and willing to share her experiences in guiding new members. She is passionate in her career and work and she is committed in driving and delivering the best. Her positive attitude and enthusiasm really drives the whole team to accomplish new initiatives and establish tremendous goals. As a team leader, Bonnie earns my highest recommendation and looking forward to working with you to create more initiatives!”

“I know Bonnie through WIFA events in 2022 and I immediately find Bonnie a star! She is professional and passionate to help bringing together the WIFA community to learn the mega trends in the financial markets. Bonnie always demonstrates enthusiasm, her cheerful and welcoming personality helps to make new WIFA members like me feel empowered. Thank you Bonnie for your dedication and hard work this year!”

“I worked with Bonnie when I was the co-chair of the HK Women's Network at Credit Suisse. Bonnie was the co-chair at WiFA at the time and was incredibly active.  Bonnie was pivotal in recruiting and managing relationships with members like CS and others. She actively engaged members regarding events and initiatives, and encouraged open dialogue on issues as well as solutions to those issues.  Her leadership style is quite democratic in nature, and that suits the organization's culture. She leads by inspiration and consensus building and is well liked by stakeholders. Overall, it has been an absolute pleasure observing Bonnie help WiFA evolve into it's current form, and I wish her continued success. ”

“Bonnie is passionate. Though we have not met for long, I feel her charisma in leading the organisation and always looking ahead. It is pleasure working together with her contributing to the community! ”

“Bonnie has been a great leader for WiFA and as a sponsor on behalf of my company, I speak to her on a regular basis. We discuss ideas for events, and Bonnie will make it happen. It's been a pleasure to working with her.”

“I got to know Bonnie through being part of the Networking Committee in Women in Finance Asia (WIFA). Her vision and commitment to the team has led us through challenging times during lockdown amidst COVID19 outbreak - she steered us to expand WIFA's capabilities to host virtual events. From revamping the WIFA's social media presence to laying out this year's direction, she has been a very hands-on leader who speaks louder with her actions. It has been a pleasure working with her so far and I look forward to more collaborations! ”

“I've had the pleasure of collaborating with Bonnie through her leadership at WiFA. Bonnie is a strong connector, bringing together people and ideas to create powerful impact. Her innovative mindset and resilient spirit shine through as she leads teams and networks to find ways to build a better future. She inspires others just as she helps share the stories of other inspiring change makers. Thanks Bonnie for taking important action and leading so many to create the change we want to see in the world.”

“I had the pleasure to get to know Bonnie through the WIFA community in Hong Kong. Her passion, her vision and commitment is visibile in the way this community has grown over the last year. Starting this year, when the world went under lockdown and people felt they were apart, Bonnie with her WIFA team, brought everyone together by being innovative and resilient and hosting a range of online events. Besides, she is incredibly warm, approachable and thoughtful. Thank you Bonnie for your purpose driven leadership. And I am looking forward to being a part of WIFA community. ”

“I enjoy very much working alongside Bonnie in WiFA. She posses the leadership skills needed for co-chair of WiFA and has the behind-the-scene skills as well. She is great at staying on the task and easily identifies and proposes solutions to any road bumps that the team hits along the way. ”

“Passionate is the phrase that comes to mind when I think about Bonnie. I’ve had the pleasure of working with her at WiFA. Above all, I was impressed with her ability to lead the growing organization with 5 committees outside of a full-time job and as a mom-of three. She motivates and supports each of us to bring our ideas to life. Oh, and she organized good causal drinks. As a team leader, Bonnie earns my highest recommendation.”

“I have had the great pleasure to work with Bonnie in various internal and external engagements during my tenure in Morgan Stanley namely within Technology Risk, Women In Technology (WIT), Women in Finance Asia (WiFA) and many other leadership events. I was impressed and inspired by Bonnie’s leadership, innovation, positivity and amazing management skills. Bonnie is truly a shining star and on the path of making a positive impact in whichever field she focuses on. ”

“Bonnie is an amazing leader with a clear passion, dedication and amazing vision. Women in Finance Asia is an extremely large group and she keeps everyone on task, organised and full of energy! She inspires everyone around her and always has a positive attitude. She is willing to go the extra mile to get things accomplished in a timely and efficient manner. We love having her lead us as co-chair! ”

“Bonnie took over as co-chair of WIFA in 2019 and her dedication has been nothing short of outstanding! Her enthusiasm, interest, commitment and effort shine through in everything. Her management and organisational capabilities are fantastic. She is also incredibly approachable, fun and kind which are traits I greatly admire. I'm sure everyone who has the opportunity to know her and work with her will echo these sentiments. Thank you Bonnie for keeping us all on track. ”

“Bonnie leads by example. She demonstrates thoughtful leadership qualities that are required when motivating a group of diverse people from different industry sectors with varying degrees of experience”

“I have worked on very valuable WIFA initiatives with Bonnie and find her to be be well organized, insightful and a pleasure to engage with. ”

“Bonnie always generate positive energy and new ideas to WiFA, drives the committee members through various ideas . Through working with her, I can really feel her passion , working as a team with her is being engaged and treasured . ”

“I met Bonnie at an HTCIA event. As President of the HTCIA, Bonnie has been absolutely fantastic in promoting security topics bringing various experts across industries. Having participated in several events that she has organised, I have always taken away great learnings/lnowledge in this area. To that end, Bonnie is a great advocate for women in Security giving them visibility and exposure. She is absolutely passionate about work in this sector! Great person to work with and collaborate!”

“I have known Bonnie for more than 10 years and had worked together on a few interesting forensic engagements while she was with KPMG. I have learnt a lot from her experience in investigation and knowledge around digital forensic. I have many opportunities working with Bonnie over the past 4 years while she was the president of High Technology Crime Investigation Association (Asia Pacific) Chapter. I have seen Bonnie’s devoted passion and drives in charting the chapter, contributing her time and knowledge to the communities. She also assisted the Singapore community to form the Singapore chapter, which many of us, including myself, has benefited.”

“I had the great pleasure of working with Bonnie for several years, collaborating on several projects, events and team discussions within Cyber-Security and Devops across APAC. No matter how tight her schedule was she made time for a meeting, Bonnie made sure the discussions were engaging with prompt and detailed follow-ups. She has the demonstrated the ability to create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. I have seen her passion to convince employees and stakeholders to embrace lofty ambitions and move the organization forward .... to rally their people and channel their collective energy in a positive, focused direction. As a team leader, Bonnie earns my highest recommendation.”