| FRESH FACE 09.09.09 9:00 AM |
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After Stints at Nonprofits, Producer Ryan Zynger's New Firm Focuses on Fund-Raisers
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Ryan Zynger got his start about 15 years ago, doing down-home events like barbecues and petting zoos for a Canadian military family resource center in Victoria, British Columbia. After moving to Los Angeles in 2000, he worked as the event manager for the California Science Center, where he spent eight years before moving on to work with CauseForce, a for-profit company that produces fund-raising events for nonprofits with ties to cancer research. Zynger left CauseForce to start his own production and consulting firm, Zynger Event Designs Inc., last year.
Through the new business, he handles production management and venue selection, and oversees audiovisual production, food and beverage service, decor, branding, security, and parking. Zynger focuses on nonprofit work. “I had been thinking about doing my own thing for a while,” he says. “I [realized] I could get up every day and be excited about what I did and get paid for it.”
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| TOP 100 EVENTS 02.29.08 7:15 PM |
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Southern California's Top Food, Wine, and Hospitality Events 2008
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 | The 2007 Art of Food & Wine event in Palm Desert
Photo: Brian Maurer |
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1. American Food & Wine Festival
Wolfgang Puck and Barbara Lazaroff are behind this quarter-century-old foodie fest, which raises money for the Los Angeles chapter of Meals on Wheels. Every September, gourmands wind around the streets of the Universal Studios back lot to meet some of the country’s most prominent chefs. Joan Wrede coordinates the event.
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Southern California's Top 100 Events, Meals on Wheels, Share Our Strength, Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Association, American Institute of Wine & Food, Los Angeles Free Clinic, New Friends, National Kidney Foundation, Break the Cycle, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Reed Exhibitions |
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