About Us

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 a degree and prior work experience with major firms like Wells Fargo, Apple, Kaiser, Hilton, Marriott, Stanford University, or Nestle. We have diverse personal hobbies which further enhance our work, including fine art, makeup, photography, costuming, and travel.

Events We've Produced

  • Wine & Art Fairs
  • City Wide Festivals
  • Anime / Comic / Geek / Pop Culture Conventions
  • Non-Profit Fundraiser Galas & Banquets
  • Complex Live Music / Circus / Stage Performances

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.

Leadership Team

Ole Haslund

Ole Haslund

Creative Director, Managing Partner

Ole has extensive community events experience, including as a non-profit Board Member & CFO. He's produced events in Silicon Valley's largest conference venues to create multi-day festivals with thousands of hotel guests. Ole previously developed corporate training and event 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 Bogino

Operations Director, Partner

Christina has planned and produced high detail events in the Los Angeles area for nearly 10 years. Prior to starting InGobo Events, her own company, she worked for local wedding planners and DoubleTree Hotel. She received a B.S. in Event Management and minor in Marketing from Cal Poly Pomona.

LeeAnn Fontes

LeeAnn Fontes

Operations Manager

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 Ubalde

Sales Manager

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 Hartlein

Jessica Hartlein

Business Director, Partner

Jessica earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Cal Poly Pomona. In addition to years of supply chain management and warehouse ops experience, she's most recently worked in Information Technology Support at Kaiser Hospitals.

Joseph Remington

Joseph Remington

Partner, Technical Director

Joseph has multiple degrees from Sacramento State University, including Microbiology, Forensic Biology, Molecular Biology and Philosophy. He provides invaluable guidance on pandemic safety planning in addition to guiding our tech operations.

Advisory Board

Dr. Nelson Pizarro

Dr. Nelson Pizarro

Dr. Pizarro helped start 6 companies, did business in 46 countries, and in 2012, launched EcoStatic Inc.

Dr. Trayan Kushev

Dr. Trayan Kushev

Dr. Kushev's 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.

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