Stella Maloyan is principal of Stellar Strategies, LLC. Most recently, she served as chief of strategic development at Bush Gottlieb, an innovative union labor law firm founded in 1970.
Prior to joining Bush Gottlieb, Stella was the director of development at LAANE for over 18 years, creating and overseeing the organization’s private fundraising programs and events. In her time at LAANE, Stella helped raise over 25 million dollars and created two of the city’s signature events: The City of Justice Awards Dinner (L.A.’s premier progressive political/labor fundraiser with close to 1,000 attendees) and the Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon (the largest annual women’s empowerment forum in California, with a unique and diverse gathering of speakers, honorees and attendees nationally). She also formulated a long term entertainment outreach strategy for LAANE, with the objective of engaging Hollywood power brokers and celebrities from music, film and TV industries in LAANE’s work. Stella was appointed by Mayor Garcetti to the L.A. Convention and Tourism Development Board of Commissioners, where she served from 2015 to 2019.