
Dan Monroe is a principal partner and wordsmith at Cayenne Creative Group – a brand-development, advertising, and marketing agency in Birmingham that offers up national and international brand experience in the form of an agile creative firm.
Cayenne helps clients tell their stories strategically in ways that are interruptive and authentic, using whichever media best talks their talk – from social and digital media, to apps, to guerrilla marketing.
When not writing for clients, Dan is a poet, storyteller, aficionado of bourbons and single malts, and a firm believer that the Great American Novel is trapped inside one of his pens and simply hasn’t found a way out yet.

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Tommy Townsend is a native of Blairsville, GA, located in the heart of the North Georgia mountains. He is a professional musician and owner of Grandaddy Mimm’s Moonshine Distillery. At about age 13, Tommy heard the Waylon Jennings album, “Ol’ Waylon”, and was hooked. He began his pursuit of his own music career after meeting Waylon a short time later. Waylon took a liking to the curly haired lad and included him later in some performances and studio work. The collaboration continued all the way up to Waylon’s death.
Fred Midkiff is a native of southern Virginia and a 35-year veteran of John Deere. During that time, he held many different positions in sales, marketing, operations and finance. He favorite activities always revolved around helping John Deere dealers develop in all of those areas. He retired a few years ago as a Director of Strategic Dealers.
Will Haraway is Founder & Lead Evangelist at Backbeat Marketing. Will has 20 years of executive experience in B2B Technology Marketing. Will is a certified analyst relations practitioner by the Knowledge Capital Group and has helped companies including Manhattan Associates, Aptos, Atlantix Global Systems, American Software and Rubicon Global improve their brand reputations with marketing results that help increase sales.
Scott W. Luton is the founder of Supply Chain Now Radio and also serves as Managing Partner for TalentStream. He has worked extensively in the end-to-end Supply Chain industry for more than 15 years, appearing in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Dice and Quality Progress Magazine. Scott currently serves as Executive Vice President of APICS Atlanta, was recently named a 2019 Pro to Know in Supply Chain by Supply & Demand Executive.
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