Stephen Wong

Stephen Wong is a Managing Partner at Valley Capital Partners, overseeing capital raising, investor relations, and growth and exits of VCP portfolio companies.  Wong is the former managing director, co-head of the Real Estate Group in Asia Ex-Japan and chairman of Hong Kong investment banking at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2005 and received the firm’s prestigious John L. Weinberg Award in 2020. He has published three books with Smithsonian Books, most recently Game Worn: Baseball Treasures from the Game’s Greatest Heroes and Moments (2016) which was nominated for the Casey Award. Wong himself is a life-long collector of rare and significant baseball artifacts. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on baseball uniforms, game-used bats and other forms of memorabilia and has helped advise and organize baseball-themed exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum for Baseball: America’s Home Run (2022 – 2025), Californian Museum for California at Bat: America’s Pastime in the Golden State (2018), the National Museum of American Jewish History, Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, and Skirball Cultural Center for Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American (2014 – 2016) and the Museum of the City of New York for Glory Days: New York Baseball, 1947 – 1957 (2007). Wong is also serving as an honorary advisor and lender to The Jackie Robinson Museum in New York and also advises and loans artifacts to the San Francisco Giants. Wong is a member of the Board of Directors of The Jackie Robinson Foundation as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of Hobart and William Smith Colleges where he earned a BA in economics in 1989. Wong also received a Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford Law School in 1992.