Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pace, the largest independently owned custom content agency in the nation, serving Fortune 500 and leading companies including Southwest Airlines, Walmart, Wells Fargo, Verizon, and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
McElveen-Hunter was appointed as the first woman Chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross in 2004. In 2007, she co-founded The Tiffany Circle Society of Women Leaders, which has grown to nearly 1,000 members in 98 chapters across the country who have invested more than $122 million in the American Red Cross mission.
From 2001-2003, McElveen-Hunter served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland.
As Ambassador, she initiated the Stop Child Trafficking: End Modern-Day Slavery and Children of Karelia program, as well as founded the Women Business Leaders Summit®, a model for business entrepreneurship partnering women business leaders which continues around the world. She was awarded one of Finland’s highest honors – The Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion.
As a long-time philanthropist and charitable-cause activist, she has served as a member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, chaired the Alexis de Tocqueville Society, served on the United Way of America Board as a member of its National Leadership Council, and founded the United Way Billion Dollar National Women’s Leadership Initiative which to date has raised over $1 billion dollars.