Gary Tong

Governing Board Member

Gary started his ESG journey shortly since 2008. During the first decade, he joined several diversity teams at The Boeing Company, volunteered in local nonprofit organizations in Seattle, WA, and held various leadership positions in Boeing Asian American Professional Association. Since 2018, he started to shift towards the sustainability field and help create more sustainable packaging.



Gary has over 15 years’ industrial and consulting experience in leading mid-scale, multinational operational enterprise improvement programs and transformations as an internal consultant and an executive. Prior to AlixPartners, he was a vice president of engineering, innovation, and manufacturing in Kwik Lok Corporation, a global family-owned packaging company, where he oversaw P&L, manufacturing process improvement including industrial internet of things (IIoT) and digital ecosystem, and 5-year product & sustainability roadmap from a global perspective. As an engineering manager and site leader, he led many emergent recovery supplier and program efforts at Boeing. He started his career as an aircraft interior design engineer. Gary holds his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from UW Seattle, and Master of Science in Technology Management from Columbia University. He is an MBA candidate from Kelley School of Business. In addition, he holds an EIT license and is Stanford Certified Project Manager.