Luxury Lifestyle Logistics | Industry Social - Porta Blu
Join us for a gathering designed to bring together estate, family office, and UHNW service professionals across a broad range of disciplines through great conversation, exceptional food and drinks, and genuine connection in beautiful Menlo Park.
Created as an evening to unwind, connect, and enjoy the company of thoughtful peers, the gathering offers an atmosphere that feels relaxed, elevated, and entirely what you make of it, whether exchanging ideas, sharing stories, making introductions, or simply enjoying the setting and conversation.
6pm-8pm Mixer, Optional Stay for Dinner 8pm+
We believe we are already friends. We just may not have met yet. COME.
This social hour is co-coordinated by Nickey Lemley of Parco Studio & Melissa Shymko of Project Preservation.
About the Host
Luxury Lifestyle Logistics is an estate management and operational governance advisory practice supporting UHNW private households in professionally managed homes. With more than 25 years of experience inside complex residential environments, the firm brings calm perspective and thoughtful guidance where people, systems, and daily life intersect — with engagements focused on governance, role clarity, and the decision-making frameworks that support both family priorities and operational continuity.
This evening's mixer is hosted by Jen Laurence, PhD, Founder and President of Luxury Lifestyle Logistics — one of fewer than five practitioners in the United States operating at this level of estate advisory work, and the only scholar-practitioner to have formally defined modern estate management as a leadership discipline. With formal butler training, honors hospitality credentials, and more than two decades of leadership inside the profession, Dr. Laurence advises UHNW principals and family offices worldwide. Her work sits at the intersection of organizational leadership, operational governance, and the deeply human complexity of life inside a privately managed home.
Based in the United States. Advisory services available worldwide.
Parco Studio is a deliberately focused architectural practice working at the scale of private estates through a systems-level approach to space, light, and use. Founded by architect Ben Parco, whose prior work includes over 20 million square feet for organizations such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and E&J Gallo Winery, the studio brings that level of rigor and coordination to the home. The work is defined by clarity and precision; environments that feel composed rather than arranged, and that continue to reveal themselves through daily life over time.
Project Preservation is the behind-the-scenes brain of beautifully run homes.
We help luxury homeowners manage maintenance, vendors, and service providers with systems that bring order, consistency, and ease — across one property or an entire portfolio.
We are a team of discreet, highly trained professionals who bring order, continuity, and care to the management of luxury homes. With backgrounds in hospitality, construction, and estate operations, we understand the complexity of caring for high-value properties — and the people who live in them.
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