Kofi S. Bonner is an American architect and planner who is known for the heading the redevelopment of the city of Emeryville, California. Bonner also has served as deputy executive director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency; director of community & economic development and interim city manager for the city of Oakland, California; and chief economic policy advisor to San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. In 1998, Bonner became executive vice president and chief administrative officer for the Cleveland Browns football organization of the National Football League. In 2004, Bonner was hired by MBNA and then in 2006 became director of urban land for Lennar. Currently he is regional president at FivePoint, a position he assumed when his previous role as president in Lennar's Bay Area Urban d