Leadership Backed by Know-How

Renae Griffin, Founder and Principal

Renae brings more than 20 years of professional business experience and hands-on event management prowess to the firm. She founded RG & Associates in 2001 and has attracted a blue-chip client roster including HSBC, Credit Suisse, India Angel Network, KMART Corporation, The Marathon Club, National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP), New America Alliance, Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Project, Robert Toigo Foundation, and more.

Renae’s entrepreneurial roots date back to the early 1980s when she founded and ran an image consulting business in Los Angeles. Additionally, she began working in the financial services industry in the early 1980s with Bankers Trust Company, Capital Guardian Trust Company, and Progress Investment Management Company. With those firms and others, she focused on client service, institutional marketing, meeting and event planning where she coordinated annual conferences for industry and political luminaries.

Renae is a certified meeting professional and an active member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the National Association of Securities Professionals and Rotary International. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics.

Reggio Hearn, Director of Operations

Reggio Hearn is the Director of Operations at RG & Associates. Reggio oversees all technical and logistics operations for RG & Associates’ events worldwide. Additionally Reggio manages office operations and staffing. He is also responsible for the management of our proprietary database, and the development of our system applications including our VIP Connect networking software.

Previously, Reggio worked over 12 years managing events for a wide range of companies and industry sectors including several Fortune 100 companies. He has managed events on 6 continents and is fluent in French. Reggio graduated from the University of California Davis in 1995 with a degree in Political Science and Communications. He is active in his community and works with several non-profit organizations that benefit youth education and enrichment.

Ngoc Ly, Executive Assistant

Ngoc Ly is an Executive Assistant at RG & Associates. She provides administrative support and coordination of all ongoing and future events to ensure the success and satisfaction of both management and clients. Ngoc comes to RG & Associates with over 10 years of customer service experience and over six years of project management experience.

Prior to joining RG & Associates, Ngoc was the Community Relations Coordinator for McKesson Corporation and the McKesson Foundation where she was responsible for organizing, managing and implementing volunteer programs for over 500 employees at corporate headquarters in San Francisco, CA. Ngoc attended San Jose State University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Science and is a Butler Koshland Fellow.

Megan Masters, Project Manager

Megan has eight-plus years of event and logistics planning for Fortune 100 companies, including outstanding project and program management skills. Past experience includes events for Goldman Sachs, Smith Barney, top national law firms and other leading organizations. Megan works closely with Renae Griffin and other RG&A team members and contractors to plan, manage and coordinate all aspects of meetings, conferences, special events, incentives, road shows and deliver outstanding results. She provides RG & Associate event clients with direct support for all required operations of the event, including site selection, pre-event coordination, vendor selection/management /negotiation, budget management, status reporting, design and implementation, speaker, sponsor and attendee coordination, management of collateral design, on-site event support, as well as post-event billing and reporting.

Megan earned her Bachelor of Science, Business Administration degree from University of Arizona and her Master of Science, Hospitality Industry Studies at New York University.

Jarinya K. Law,  Accountant

Jarinya joins the RG & Associate team as an accountant responsible for maintaining records of all financial transactions and providing monthly, quarterly and yearly financial reporting to management.

Before joining RG & Associates, Jarinya worked over 13 years as a project accountant for an engineering firm in San Francisco. Jarinya graduated with a degree in Accounting and she attended San Francisco State University where she earned her Master Business Administration (MBA).