Stephen Galvan, General Manager

Stephen brings over 30 years of experience to his new role as General Manager with Ironlight. Prior to Ironlight, he spent two years with Coast Hospitality as Regional Director of Sales & Marketing for the Historic Benson Hotel Curio Collection by Hilton, and the Holman Hotel, Tapestry Collection by Hilton both located in Oregon. He spent six years with Provenance Hotels as the Area Director of Sales & Marketing and was responsible for its collection of 12 boutique properties. Stephen has also served as Director of Sales & Marketing at Portland’s historic Heathman Hotel for over ten years and was a visionary in helping curate the hotel’s most notable arts and literary partnerships. Stephen also had the distinct honor of leading several acclaimed boutique hotels in San Francisco that made up the Joie de Vivre Hospitality group in his earlier career.

Stephen has served on the Board for Historic Hotels of America and the Oregon Film & Video Foundation. He is a long-time member of Travel Portland, Portland Business Alliance, Literary Arts of Oregon and the hospitality community at large.

Megan Willis, Operations Manager

Megan was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. With over 15 years of experience in hospitality, Megan grew a love for people, food, and leading others. This love brought her to the restaurant industry in Portland. She worked her way up into management roles, managing multiple James Beard Nominated restaurants. She is excited to bring this expertise into her role at Ironlight as the Venue Operations Manager, while getting to learn about the big world of the event business.

Outside of working for Ironlight, Megan loves to kayak, camp, and enjoy everything the PNW has to offer.

Michael Hammack, Sales Manager

Michael is a born and raised Portlander with over 20 years of experience in the hospitality and events industry. Not only locally but he cut his teeth in New York and Washington D.C. While living there, he spent the majority of his time assisting in producing fashion shows during New York Fashion Week and running a 15,000 square-foot former warehouse turned event venue.

After returning home to the PNW he very quickly found a home being part of the opening team of Plaza del Toro in the SE industrial area. After several years he transitioned to ChefStable Catering and rode through the pandemic with them until they closed in the fall of 2022. At that point, Michael took a nice long break to assess what would be next. He is beyond excited to be in this new role of Sales Manager with the entire team at Ironlight.

The Owners

Ironlight is a family-owned business. We started this journey in 2016 and opened Ironlight in March 2020. Our dream was to create an elevated and thoughtful place for people to gather.