Meet the team

Meghan Alfonso | CEO & Founder

Meghan Alfonso is the CEO and founder of GAT (Girl/Guy About Town). Being 5th generation Phoenician she loves showing off her beautiful town. Always a party planner at heart Meghan enjoys hosting and connecting with others and creating a one of a kind event. A wife, mom, and a business owner she is excited to watch GAT grow!

Alex Dermody | Social Media Manager

Alex is the Social Media Manager for GAT, where she handles everything GAT from Instagram to TikTok! She was born and raised in Arizona and graduated from Arizona State University in 2019. Aside from working for GAT she is also the current Varsity Pom Coach for Desert Mountain High School. She loves to be out and about in Scottsdale and is passionate about growing the GAT brand from the ground up. When she started there were only 3 full time GAT employees, and now we have been able to grow to 7 full time employees and multiple part time employees! If you see Alex on TikTok, make sure to comment!

Brenna Testa | Lead Event Coordinator

Brenna is one of our Lead Coordinator at GAT. She graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Tourism and a minor in Special Event Management. Brenna is very passionate about event planning and started her career planning events for her sorority. Being from a small town outside of Chicago, she loves to explore all of Arizona and enjoy the outdoors whenever she can! GAT has been such an exciting adventure for her so far and she cannot wait to be working alongside the company as it keeps on growing!

Sheridan Collins | Lead Event Coordinator

Sheridan is one of the Lead Event Coordinators here at GAT. She has a passion for creating beautiful, unique, events and VIP experiences for GAT guests visiting Scottsdale. Sheridan has been in the event coordinating industry since 2017, and has worked on events large and small, ranging from international travel events with 100-300+ attendees, concerts, weddings, and pop-up events. She has an eye for design and passion for creating memorable experiences attendees will cherish forever! You can count on her to create a weekend of a lifetime for your group in Scottsdale.

Ally Boles | Lead Event Assistant

Ally is GAT’s Lead Event Assistant and feels so lucky to be one of the girls on-site with our clients! Ally was born and raised in Northern California but has found a home in Arizona. She recently graduated from The University of Arizona with a Bachelor’s in Marketing and relocated to Scottsdale to work for GAT! Ally has always felt at home planning and decorating for events, so she has loved every second of working for us. Apart from working for GAT, Ally also plans weddings here in the Scottsdale area!

Megan Oleno | Website Manager

Megan met GAT's founder, Meghan Alfonso, in 2011 when they worked together at Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation. They kept in touch over the years and after Meghan Alfonso started the Pearce Family Foundation, Megan started volunteering at fundraising events. The Pearce Family Foundation is a Scottsdale based non-profit organization whose mission is to provide financial assistance to local families that have a child who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening or chronic illness. Megan now works with Meghan Alfonso full time planning events for PFF and managing the Girl About Town website.

Marin Scoggin | Social Media Assistant

Marin is the Social Media Assistant for Girl About Town and the Account Manager of About Town Social, another branch of GAT. She works with small business and vacation rentals to grow the business through social media! She also manages the "Who Do You Know Here" Tik Tok account (@whodoyouknowhere_) and loves making fun content about our bachelor party planning service! Marin is an Arizona native and a student at Arizona State University where she has been pursuing social media marketing and has worked as the VP of Marketing for Alpha Phi. In her free time she loves to explore Old Town Scottsdale with her friends and hangout with her dog, Cowboy!

Side Hustlers

Meet Lauren

Lauren is the Warehouse Manager at GAT. She deals with inventory and is in charge of making sure everything is clean, organized, and works properly. Lauren was born and raised in Glendale, AZ and has an associate degree in Business Management from Phoenix Community College. Her passion for event planning first sparked when she had her son. Working at GAT has been a dream come true for her, allowing her to express her creativeness and work alongside an amazing team of women. She’s excited to continue her journey with GAT and see how it grows.

Meet Kendyl

Kendyl is one of GAT’s spring Event Coordinator Interns. She is currently a student at Arizona State University studying Business Marketing with a minor in Special Events Management. Planning and hosting events as been a passion of hers for as long as she can remember! She is so excited for her journey with the company and to work alongside and learn from Girl About Town’s team!

Meet Hannah

GAT's spring social media intern, who is originally from Denver Colorado, but came to Arizona for college 3 years ago and absolutely fell in love with the desert! Hannah is currently a senior at Arizona State University where she will be receiving her Bachelors of Science in Marketing this upcoming Spring 2023! Hannah is a proud member of the ASU Dance Team/Spirit Squad, which has been so rewarding for her to do in college considering dancing has been a hobby of hers for years. Besides being a student and an intern at GAT, she also works at Social Tap in Old Town which has been so fun getting to meet so many new people and be in the action of Old Town. Hannah says, "I am so excited to be using my degree in Marketing for this internship and helping out with the social media aspect because social media plays such a huge role in today's world and is crucial in order to meet and reach more people!"

Meet Amy

Amy is one of GAT's Side Hustlers. She is currently a student at Arizona State University studying Software Engineering with a minor in Design Studies and Engineering Management. She has always had a love for design and interior decorating, and is so happy to be working with the girls at Girl About Town and learning more about event planning!

Meet Taylor

Taylor is one of GAT’s Side Hustlers. She graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Arizona State University and was also a member of the ASU Softball team. Being involved with the “behind the scenes” of event planning/set-up has always intrigued Taylor, so she is very excited to make magic happen with the rest of the GAT team!

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Meet the team

Meghan Alfonso | CEO & Founder

Alex Dermody | Social Media Manager

Brenna Testa | Lead Event Coordinator

Sheridan Collins | Lead Event Coordinator

Ally Boles | Lead Event Assistant

Megan Oleno | Website Manager

Marin Scoggin | Social Media Assistant

Side Hustlers

Meet Lauren

Meet Kendyl

Meet Hannah

Meet Amy

Meet Taylor

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