Evan Tzeng is the co-founder & CEO of Hospitalities, founder of StayAltered, and founding steering committee member of Coalition of Festivals and Live Events (COFAME). He also guides and advises leaders on developing places, experiences, and businesses that unleash the human potential for hospitality, community, and positivity.

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In 2025, Evan co-founded Hospitalities for experience operators to own the IRL community and economy they create.

  • Co-Founder & CEO of Hospitalities.
    • Hospitalities is the commerce layer for IRL experience operators to own the economy they create.
    • Hospitalities is proud to be an UnTours Foundation investee. UnTours Foundation invests in diverse founders and companies with positive impact embedded in their business models.

In 2022, Evan founded StayAltered to ensure the global tourism industry benefits local communities.

  • Founder of StayAltered.
    • Since launching, StayAltered has grown to 180+ independent hosts in 45+ countries and 6 continents.
    • StayAltered was included The New York Times’ “Travel Predictions for 2025”, one of the first US impact startups accepted into Amadeus’ Travel4Impact Network in 2024, and selected by Turismo du Portugal and Startup Madeira for the 2022 Madeira Startup Retreat.

In 2021, Evan helped launch Coalition of Festivals and Live Events (COFAME), an industrywide coalition helping each other lead and organize safer, sustainable, and socially impactful festivals and major events.

  • Founding steering committee member for Coalition of Festivals and Live Events (COFAME).
    • COFAME is a promoter, production company, and festival agnostic coalition of event leaders, producers, department heads, and workers.
    • COFAME delivers workforce development and professional development programs that unite industry and impact partners to close skills gaps, boost productivity, and increase staff retention.
    • 50+ Current FAME Leaders from Live Nation, AEG Presents, and numerous independent promoters have united to train 30+ Future FAME Leaders.

Evan has joined, supported, and led countless teams building businesses, enhancing destinations, and producing 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 production companies include:
    • AEG Presents
    • CID Entertainment
    • ENVEEKAY
    • Raduno
    • PKF International
    • Superfly
    • Wanderlust Festivals

Previously, Evan worked in sustainable tourism as 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:
    • Coastal Alabama Partnership
    • Ventana Canyon Club and Lodge

Before that, Evan was hired by DWP to help diversify the company’s festival portfolio from its core offering of single-genre music festivals into boutique experiences blending music, culinary, culture, entertainment, and education.

  • 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

In his spare time, Evan supports various social impact groups and community-based initiatives.

  • Pro bono work includes Chief of Staff to Horizons: Perspective on Psychedelics and 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).with The Yard Hostel & Community Space in Bangkok, Thailand (one of The Guardian’s “10 Best Sustainable Hotels in Southeast Asia“).