Evan Tzeng integrates community, sustainability, and hospitality together to guide visionary leaders and organizations through the imagination-to-execution process of transforming time and space into meaningful moments and places that people love to live in and visit.

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Evan is the Founder of StayAltered, the world’s first community-powered hospitality company.

  • Founder of StayAltered.
    • StayAltered champions the alternative hosts who independently own and locally operate over two-thirds of the world’s places to stay.
    • When sustainably managed, their accommodations connect guests and neighbors together to help local economies thrive and local communities flourish.
    • StayAltered enables 130+ independent hosts in 40+ countries to unite together and gain the crucial services and collective support needed to build stronger businesses with greater impact.

Throughout his career, Evan has joined, supported, and led fearless teams building businesses, developing destinations, and creating experiences that challenge the status quo and celebrate humanity.

  • Select projects include:
    • Amaro Montenegro
    • Beyond Green
    • Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics
    • Outside Lands Festival
    • Mohegan Sun
    • Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
    • The New York Times Food Festival
    • Raduno
    • Red Light Management
    • Time Magazine
    • Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts
    • Woodstock 50
    • Zebras Unite
  • Select agencies include:
    • Empire Entertainment
    • ENVEEKAY
    • Raduno
    • PKF International
    • Superfly
  • Select production work includes:
    • AEG Presents
    • CID Entertainment
    • Wanderlust Festivals

Previously, Evan was the Director of Sustainability for Beyond Green Travel & Preferred Travel Group.

  • Director of Sustainability for Beyond Green Travel and Preferred Travel Group.
    • Beyond Green Travel works with destinations, hospitality companies, tour operators, and non-profit groups to build their brands, craft compelling stories, and make travel a force for good.
    • For over 20 years, Beyond Green Travel has been on the cutting edge of travel innovation and leadership, helping to spearhead the global sustainable tourism movement that supports conservation, cultural preservation, and economic development through business success.
  • Select clients include:
    • Coasta Alabama Partnership
    • Ventana Canyon Club and Lodge

Before that, Evan joined DWP to diversify the company’s intellectual properties beyond its core offering of single-genre festivals and into boutique, hybrid experiences blending music, food and drink, education, and entertainment.

  • Joined Danny Wimmer Presents as the VP of Experience & Partnerships to co-develop and launch the critically-acclaimed Bourbon & Beyond festival brand.
  • Co-led and produced brand creative, strategy, partnerships, and pouring of over 250 expressions from 20 bourbon companies.
  • Select companies include:
    • Bacardi
    • Beam Suntory
    • Brown-Forman
    • Diageo
    • Heaven Hill
    • Kirin
    • Pernod Ricard
    • Sazerac

Evan started his career as the 13th employee at Superfly, the producers of Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and Outside Lands Festival. Over the next seven years, he helped grow the company to over 100 employees by developing, pitching, and winning over $15MM in creative, strategic, and experiential work.

  • Joined Superfly as an intern. Hired as the 13th employee and became Associate Director of Creative & Strategy.
  • Co-designed the experience of Google I/O, the world’s most significant developer conference.
  • Overhauled the sponsorship strategy for international esports league Intel Extreme Masters.
  • Created the methodology and execution plans for multiple global influencer marketing and content campaigns for Citi, Target, Yahoo!, and more.
  • Select clients include:
    • Adult Swim
    • Asus
    • Ben & Jerry’s
    • GNC
    • JetBlue Airways
    • Nickelodeon
    • Pabst Brewing Company
    • Patrón Tequila

Evan is a Steering Committee Member for Coalition of Festivals, and an Advisor to Asian Psychedelic Collective. In his spare time, he supports various social impact groups and community-based tourism initiatives.

  • Steering Committee Member for Coalition of Festivals.
  • Advisor to Asian Psychedelic Collective.
  • Lived in Inle Lake for six months to help open and setup Song of Travel, the fourth hostel in Myanmar and first built from the ground-up for backpackers (named “The 10th Best Small Hostel Worldwide” and “The Best Hostel in Myanmar” by Hostelworld).
  • Volunteered with Star Hostels in Taipei, Taiwan (named “The Best Large Hostel Worldwide” by Hostelworld).
  • Volunteered with The Yard Hostel & Community Space in Bangkok, Thailand (one of The Guardian’s “10 Best Sustainable Hotels in Southeast Asia“).