What We Do
Lakefront Capital is a Michigan based Financial Strategy and Management Company founded in 2002, We are established as a National Certified Minority Company providing a range of services to Fortune 500 clients ranging from Asset Management Services, Equipment Financing, Equipment Disposition and Hardware Software Sales.
Lakefront Capital Awarded the top 100 Diversity Businesses
Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council Certification
Our Team
Ronald T. Wong
Chairman, CEO
Prior to becoming Chairman and CEO of Lakefront Capital, Ron spent 27 years with the Ford Motor Company, where his last assignment was Information Technology Director of Infrastructure Support Systems. Ron was responsible for Ford’s worldwide distributive information technology computer infrastructure and networks. Prior to his time with Ford, Ron worked in technical and management positions for seven years as a physicist and mathematician in the aerospace industry, developing telemetry and guidance systems for Space General Corporation, Aerojet General Corporation, and Compuspec Corporation.
Ron is currently a Board Member of Lakefront Capital, RTW & Associates, New Detroit and was a founding member of ALPACT (Advocates & Leaders for Police and Community Trust).
He has served as President of Honeywell’s Large Systems Users Association, Vice-President of the Chinese American Educational Cultural Center, President of the Association of Chinese Americans (ACA), Finance Vice President of the Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) and a Board Member of Gateway Counseling, Technology Services Corporation, General Digital, Dell’s Global Advisory Group, Ford China Advisory Group, and Tech Team Corporation.
Ron graduated from Pomona College with a BA in Physics, MA in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles, and received his MBA from the University of Southern California.
Thom Prendergast
President
Thom is the President and cofounder of Lakefront Capital, a IT and financial management company focused on improving enterprise companies IT , finance, procurement processes. Thom is responsible for the strategic relationships between corporations, major suppliers . Our approach is to combine the IT expertise with the procurement and finance departments to ensure best practices and outcomes. We serve our corporate clients as well as our IT vendor partners to drive saving and successful outcomes. Thom used his 30 plus years’ experience in financing, business continuity, leasing and combined it with his partners IT expertise ( Ron Wong formally IT at Ford) to build a streamlined process in IT asset management. We built a model focused to saving clients time and money.
As a MMSDC (certified minority supplier) member since 2002 we have been very involved in organizations like “New Detroit” , Forgotten Harvest, and many more.
Prior to Lakefront Capital Thom was EVP of new business development for a technology company in Chicago. Thom, in his ten year, created new business channels resulting in over $1 Billion in net new revenue. These new business lines became the most profitable in the company’s history.
Thom’s involvement in the underserved communities spans over several decades and most recently is the digitization of intercity communities, Connect 313 connects minority communities with Fast internet, refurbished laptops, tablets and on line training platforms. Diversity , equality , inclusion are the principles we best reflect.
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