GIVING BACK
E. Michael Fung ’75, Then and Now HOME: Hong Kong PROFESSION: Chairman and principal of SouthBay Investment Advisors Limited. Member of the Shanghai Commercial Bank Limited Board of Directors, and the Financial Services Development Council, a think tank that advises the Hong Kong government on financial development strategy. LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Started his own business after retiring as chairman of JPMorgan Private Bank in Asia and senior country officer of the bank’s Hong Kong branch in 2015. “The last two years on my own have allowed me to explore what I really want to do.” COMING TO NMH: “In Hong Kong, the school system was very strict. At NMH, there was no dress code and there were lots of ways to express your interests. I was happy to be myself.” NMH MOMENT: Jumping off the bridge on Route 10 into the Connecticut River. (There were girls to impress.) “I started to chicken out, but I let go and jumped. My feet touched the bottom of the river. It was the bravest, stupidest thing I ever did.” GIVING HISTORY: Donor since 1995. NMH Board of Trustees, 2008–18. Funded the Fung Family Fields along the Connecticut River and the Fung Family Room in Bolger House to honor his parents. Led fundraising to name Hong Kong Hall in the future Gilder Center for Integrative Math and Science Education. WHAT’S IMPORTANT NOW: “We owe it to the future of NMH to have a science center with first-class facilities.”
PHOTOS:MARK CHUNG, COURTESY OF NMH ARCHIVES