Vanessa Gordon is a Hamptons-based event planner & producer, publisher, and on-air expert specializing in culinary travel, luxury hospitality, and coastal destinations.

She is the CEO and Founder of East End Taste, a culinary travel and lifestyle publication and full-service event planning, production, and staffing company. Through East End Taste, Vanessa works at the intersection of media, hospitality, experiential events, and brand storytelling, creating distinctive experiences in the Hamptons and destinations around the world. She primarily serves ultra-high-net-worth private clients and top-tier brands across the travel, beauty, lifestyle, culinary, and technology sectors.

In 2018, Vanessa founded the Hamptons Interactive Brunch, an annual experiential event that brings together leading brands, notable guests, media personalities, and tastemakers. She also advises hospitality and lifestyle brands on event production, public relations, brand positioning, and audience engagement.

Vanessa’s commentary, reporting, and personal insights have appeared in outlets including The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, BBC Travel, Travel + Leisure, Business Insider, Success, Parents, and Psychology Today. Her areas of expertise include culinary and sustainable travel, luxury hospitality, entrepreneurship, parenting, and life in the Hamptons.

She holds a Master of Arts from NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and has studied at the University of Oxford.

Vanessa is based full-time in the Hamptons, where she continues to develop East End Taste, produce luxury experiences, and share an informed perspective on travel, food, hospitality, and modern coastal living.