We Stand Out
WE'RE NOT BIG FANS OF MEDIOCRITY
Our Mission
We are committed to improving the daily lives of everyone we meet, while leaving every place or situation better than we found it. Our goal is to help everyone we work with be happier. It’s not just a business philosophy, it’s our way of life.
History
Founded in 2020, Lost City Consulting LLC is a group of industry professionals with over 50 years combined experience in producing large public events. Previously, we’ve worked directly with local event suppliers and volunteers to imagine, market and organize city-wide, multi-day festivals for thousands of daily and overnight conference guests in LA County and the Bay Area.
Everyone on our team has specialized industry education and prior work experience with major firms like Wells Fargo, Apple, Kaiser, Hilton, Marriott, Stanford University, or UC San Francisco. We have diverse personal hobbies which further enhance our work, including fine art, makeup, photography, costuming, and travel.
Places We Made a Spectacle
Our team members have negotiated and executed multi-year performance contracts with venues such as the Ontario, San Jose and Santa Clara Convention Centers. We’ve also overseen conference hotel room-night sales and housing for thousands of hotel guests overnight during our events, including at DoubleTree, Hyatt, Marriott, Fairmont, and Hilton Hotels.
Over the past several years, Lost City Consulting has been trusted to design and produce events where visibility, credibility, and experience matter. Our work spans civic summits, large-scale public festivals, and highly curated private gatherings—often at the intersection of government, industry, and community. Highlights include the Pacific Hydrogen Strategic Alliance Summit, produced in partnership with the Cities of Lancaster, CA and Namie, Japan in conjunction with US Dept of Energy industry leaders.
We’ve executed a first public hydrogen company kickoff celebration with the City of Industry. We’re the go – to partner for multiple State of the City events, featuring an array of bleeding-edge robotics, immersive staging, and innovative stage design. We’ve also led major redesigns of cornerstone public events, including ongoing production of annual Spring Business Economic Summits, and several activations for the AV Fair / Lancaster Poppy Festivals, helping modernize experiences while respecting legacy and tradition.
We’ve even established a full merchandise booth and retail operation for the San Joaquin County Fair; creating salable, logo-branded assets to extend the fair’s identity beyond the midway. We also produce intimate and unconventional gatherings such as Sharks Dining with Sharks, an entrepreneur dinner at the Monterey Bay Aquarium; a 1920’s casino night at the Hiller Aviation Museum; and dozens of business club and executive networking dinners throughout the California Bay Area.
Whether the audience is a head of state, a fair board, or a room of founders and investors, our work is consistent: thoughtful design, operational discipline, and the quiet confidence that everything will work exactly as it should.
Events We've Produced
- State of the City
- Economic Corporate Summits & Networking
- Golf Tournaments
- Wine & Art Fairs
- City Wide Festivals
- Anime / Comic / Geek / Pop Culture Conventions
- Non-Profit Fundraiser Galas & Banquets
- Complex Live Music / Circus / Stage Performances
Leadership Team
Ole Haslund
Ole has extensive events experience, including as non-profit event director, board member & CFO, producing conferences in all of Silicon Valley's largest hotels to create multi-day festivals with thousands of hotel guests. Ole developed corporate training and experiences at Apple, Wells Fargo, and Stanford. He has a B.S. in Event Management from Cal Poly Pomona with minors in Marketing & Small Business Administration.
Christina Bogino
Christina serves as Operations Director at Lost City Consulting, where she oversees hospitality operations, catering logistics, and stage management for high-profile events.
With nearly a decade of experience producing detail-driven events across Southern California, she brings a rare blend of creative vision and operational discipline to every project—ensuring that guest experience, vendor coordination, and on-site execution run seamlessly.
Prior to joining Lost City, Christina founded InGobo Events, a luxury multicultural wedding and event planning firm recognized for its elevated design and culturally nuanced celebrations. Before launching her own company, she honed her operational expertise working with established wedding planners and within hotel operations at DoubleTree, gaining firsthand experience in large-scale hospitality standards, service flow, and client management.
Christina holds a Bachelor of Science in Event Management with a minor in Marketing from Cal Poly Pomona.
LeeAnn Fontes
LeeAnn is from the Sonoma region and has worked in hospitality for 10 years, starting as a server in catering. Since then, she's been planning client events at conference facilities such as the Marriott Anaheim. Her studies focused on Event Production at Cal Poly Pomona where she obtained a B.S. in Hospitality Management.
Zach Ubalde
Zach is a SoCal native with a background in studio music production. He also has a wide range of market segment knowledge from working in different hotels, including Marriott, Sheraton and Holiday Inn. He obtained a B.S. in Hospitality Management from Cal Poly Pomona and an A.S. in Studio Sound Engineering
Jessica Egbert
Jessica serves as Business Director at Lost City Consulting, where she leads the firm’s business advisory services focused on operational efficiency, compliance, and performance improvement for fairs and public-facing event organizations.
As a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Jessica brings a disciplined, data-driven approach to every engagement and specializes in translating clients' complex challenges into clear, measurable solutions.
Jessica's professional background includes being a Portfolio Governance Analyst at UCSF Health, where she manages enterprise-level reporting and governance structures. Her work history spans healthcare IT, governance, and business process optimization.
Jessica holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Cal Poly Pomona and a Master’s degree in Health Care Administration from California State University, East Bay.
Joseph Remington
Joseph has multiple degrees from Sacramento State University, including Microbiology, Forensic Biology, Molecular Biology and Philosophy. He provides invaluable guidance on sanitation planning in addition to guiding our tech operations.
Advisory Board
Dr. Nelson Pizarro
Dr. Pizarro helped start 6 companies, did business in 46 countries, and in 2012, launched EcoStatic Inc.
Dr. Trayan Kushev
Dr. Kushev is an outside advisor to Lost City's management team. His research studies decision-making and cognitive processes of entrepreneurs. Dr. Kushev received his Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from the University of Louisville in 2014 and an MBA from the University of California, Riverside in 2010 and a BBA in Finance/Accounting from Valdosta State University in 2007. He teaches entrepreneurship and small business at Cal Poly Pomona.
Our Why
We get out of bed in the morning to make & experience new things.
We’d say we’re dreamers, but we have enough common sense to know we aren’t the only ones.
The only thing we compare ourselves to is yesterday.
We care.
We believe anything can happen with hard work & coffee.
Our play takes effort, patience, & practice.
We’re just built this way.