Mike Fong

Mike Fong is the Pacific Northwest Regional Administrator for the Small Business Administration (SBA), where he guides the SBA’s work in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington State. Previously, Fong served as Senior Deputy Mayor for the City of Seattle where he led and coordinated crisis response efforts for COVID-19 resulting in the nation’s lowest metropolitan area rates of cases, deaths, and hospitalizations and the first major city in America to reach 70% of residents fully vaccinated. Those efforts also included launching emergency small business stabilization grants, grocery vouchers and support programs for refugee and immigrant communities. Fong is the first Chinese American to serve in the role of Deputy Mayor for the City of Seattle. He has over two decades of experience in various senior level roles in local government, including tenures as Seattle Mayoral Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Office for King County, Washington.