The Event Studio, together with our sister company, Conference Solutions, offer a comprehensive event experience. We convene the perfect team for your event. Our network of collaborative partners includes designers, photographers, speechwriters, videographers, facilitators, and many more.

Each team is backed by the energy and creativity of our founders and management team.

Founders & Management

Elizabeth Busch, Co-Founder and Partner

Office Location: Las Vegas
Phone: +1 917.673.7319
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A world-class event producer, Elizabeth’s approach is rooted in the belief that balancing creativity with logistical precision—big ideas meet trains running on time—creates amazing events. A strong strategic planner, Elizabeth’s creativity and organization bring communities together and brands to life with meticulous execution. For over a decade, she has produced events for clients such as Fortune, Inc., Compliance Week, New York State, Fast Company, and Baruch College at the CUNY.

Prior to co-founding The Event Studio, Elizabeth founded Black Sheep Studios in 2005, which partnered with Conference Solutions to produce events and in 2008 become The Event Studio. She previously headed up live events for Fast Company and Inc. magazines, pioneering innovative event design with landmark conferences including RealTime and The Advance. Before joining Fast Company, Elizabeth was on staff at The Atlantic Monthly magazine.

Anne Frey-Mott, Co-Founder and Partner

Office Location: San Francisco
Phone: +1 415.785.3972
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An expert at architecting details, Anne designs and executes flawless meetings that inspire. Anne has been in the business for 20 years executing meetings and events for clients such as Wells Fargo Bank, The NFL Players Association, Credit Suisse First Boston, Sequoia Capital, Summit Partners, Thomas Publishing, Red 7 Media, Inc. and Fast Company magazines, Robert Mondavi, Source Media, Creative Good, Interactive Advertising Bureau and the NYU Departments of Tax, Law & Finance.

Prior to co-founding The Event Studio in 2008, Anne founded Conference Solutions in 1997 and Anne currently serves as President. Conference Solutions provides venue research, site selection and contract negotiation services. Anne was previously National Sales Manager for Ritz Carlton San Francisco.

Learn more about how Conference Solutions and The Event Studio work seamlessly together to help deliver your event.

Beckie Jankiewicz, Co-Founder and Partner

Office Location: New York
Phone: +1 212.987.3778
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Passionate, creative and solutions-oriented, Beckie thinks outside the box to design and execute events that deliver on her clients’ vision. She is a master multi-tasker whose expertise is in project and client management. For over 13 years, she has executed impeccable meetings and events for top-tier clients such as ArcSight, an HP Company, Compliance Week, Fortune, Bluewolf and the Mobile Marketing Association.

Prior to co-founding The Event Studio in 2008, Beckie served as Director of Events for Fast Company and Inc. magazines, where she produced the annual Inc. 500 Conference and Awards Ceremony. Previously, she was Director of Operations for the Women’s Leadership Exchange, overseeing logistics for the organization’s national, multi-market programs. She has also held event roles at PC Forum, Job Expo International and the SOHO Summit.

Lisa Bonini, Director of Events

Office Location: San Francisco
Phone: +1 415.459.4131
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Lisa’s expertise is in site selection, logistics and overall project management. She has worked with Conference Solutions for over 8 years and with The Event Studio since its inception in 2008 and has been key to events for clients such as NFL Players Association, Thomas Publishing Company, Sequoia Capital, MDB Capital, Liolios Group, Inc. magazine and Birthing of Giants.

Prior to joining The Event Studio and Conference Solutions, Lisa worked for hotels in both San Francisco and the Napa Valley including Mark Hopkins Intercontinental, Silverado Resort and Spa, and Campton Place.

Radia Funna, Director of Programs and Events

Office Location: New York
Phone: +1 201.706.3686‏
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A strong strategic operator, Radia’s expertise is in creative direction, planning and executing on vision. She utilizes her client management skills and global and brand marketing experience to develop a customized approach to all events. For over a decade she implemented corporate strategic plans for Horizon Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Nike and Calvin Klein; and has managed partnerships with The World Economic Forum, Fortune magazine, Financial Times, and The New York Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining The Event Studio, Radia managed global operations for the CEO & Board practice at Heidrick & Struggles. She also worked at Spencer Stuart, Calvin Klein, The Advertising Research Foundation, Nike, Horizon Blue Cross & Blue Shield and Ventiv Health U.S. Sales (now inVentiv Health).

Marcia Lindsey, Event Coordinator and Office Manager

Phone: +1 206.402.4373
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With a degree from the UNLV School of Hospitality and experience across the event industry Marcia has contributed to the success of events including The 2007 MTV Music Awards, UFC 67: All or Nothing, The World Shoe Association expo as well as appearances by artists including Shakira, Linkin Park, and Kid Rock. Marcia lends her deep organizational skills to both client projects and internal Event Studio operations.

Prior to joining The Event Studio, Marcia worked at K2 Sports, The Palms Casino Resorts, Encore Productions, and The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas.

Our Extended Team

Ann Bonner, Content

Ann has managed speakers including former President Bill Clinton and Bernie Marcus, co-founder, The Home Depot. Ann joined The Event Studio team at its founding and has contributed to a number of successful events. Ann was previously a key part of the editorial and event teams at Inc. magazine. In her spare time, Ann is an accomplished actress and singer and when she’s not working on events performs throughout New York and New Jersey. She currently also serves as the Assistant Artistic Director of The Actor's Project NYC.

Gina Imperato, Programming

Gina is a content expert bringing the perfect mix of speakers and flow to each event she works on for The Event Studio. As a speaker specialist, Gina focuses on building agendas, recruiting speakers, contract negotiation, as well as speaker preparation and on-site management. With over 10 years experience producing conferences for clients such as Compliance Week, Fast Company, The Interactive Advertising Bureau, and Fortune magazine, Gina delivers custom content managing both the ideas and the process as our team creates your conference.

Laura Scheflow, Programming

Laura is a market research professional with broad experience in program management, marketing strategy and creative problem solving. Her expertise includes primary market research, analysis, program design, marketing process design, message development and program execution. Laura has worked on programming events for Fortune, Mitratech, and the Mobile Marketing Association. Prior to her event career Laura worked with The Conference Board, CSC Consulting, Ernst & Young, The Research Board, and Business Week.

Danna Shapiro, Marketing

Danna is an innovative marketing communications expert with a proven track record for fueling successful branding strategies and integrated marketing campaigns; as well as crafting relationships, executing long-term strategies and supporting national sales programs. Danna combines event marketing, public relations and strategic marketing skills with a keen eye for trends to deliver creative programs with measurable results for events produced by The Event Studio. She has executed successful campaigns for clients including: International Event & Exhibition Management (IEEM), Henriot Inc., a boutique wine importer and Complexity, New Zealand Fine Wine, 21 of New Zealand’s best wineries working together to establish their nation’s credentials in the world of fine wine.