Investing with Purpose with Bonnie Foley-Wong – September 5th 2019

Entrepreneurship is often a vessel for passion - it’s where those who have an undying urge to change the world go to make an impact, and Bonnie Foley-Wong is no different.

“After my experience in investment banking and seeing vast amounts of capital flowing, I rediscovered my roots and thought, there has to be a more purposeful way of using this money.”

Bonnie is the Founder and CEO of Pique Ventures, a Vancouver-based impact investment and management company. She helps people make impact investments confidently and in an integrated way. She is an accomplished financier and investor with 20 years experience of mobilizing capital for entrepreneurial businesses. Over the course of her career, she has financed over $1 billion dollars of alternative investments in Europe and North America.

Before relocating to Vancouver, Bonnie worked in the UK with social entrepreneurs and impact investors such as Big Issue Invest and Resonance from 2009 to 2011.

Bonnie is the author of Integrated Investing: Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body, and Soul, a guide for making compassionate investment decisions to help create a better world. She is a 3-time Quora Top Writer and has been published in Business Insider, Next Billion, Inc., Forbes, Vancouver Observer, and Huffington Post.

On this week’s episode of the THRIVE Podcast, host Komal Minhas and Bonnie Foley-Wong dive into impact investing, purpose, and prioritizing diversity every step of the way.