Members of the Board

Butch Rigby

Current Job Position: Founder and owner of the Screenland Companies in Kansas City. Screenland Theatres circuit of movie theatres has locations in North Kansas City, the Screenland Armour, and the Screenland Crossroads, downtown. Screenland Real Estate Services has developed historic buildings in and around Kansas City, Missouri.
TYWD Responsibilities: Butch is the founder and  Chairman of Thank You Walt Disney, Inc., dedicated to the preservation of Walt Disney’s first cartoon studio and the restoration of the “Laugh-O-Gram Studio”. He is past chairman of FilmFest Kansas City (now Kansas City FilmFest) as well as serving as the President of the Film Society of Greater Kansas City.
butch@screenland.com

Dan Viets

Current Job Position: Attorney;
Background: Dan Viets is President of Thank You Walt Disney, Inc.  He joined Thank You Walt Disney shortly after it was formed in the mid-1990s.  He suggested to the organization that they undertake to acquire, preserve and restore the building which housed Walt’s Laugh-O-gram Studio.  Dan negotiated the purchase of that building from its previous owners.  He has served on the TYWD Board for more than 25 years.

Dan is co-author of the book, “Walt Disney’s Missouri: The Roots of a Creative Genius”, published by The Kansas City Star.  He has also written several articles about Walt Disney’s Missouri history published by the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Truman State University, the Missouri Historical Society, the Jackson County Historical Society and others.  Dan is credited by the authors of a half-dozen Disney biographies with assisting in the research for those books.   

 Dan has lectured for many years about Walt Disney’s Missouri history on behalf of the Missouri Humanities Council/State Historical Society of Missouri.  He has made presentations at the Walt Disney Boyhood Hometown Museum in Marceline, the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, as well as to Disney employees at Disneyland in California, Walt Disney World in Florida, Walt Disney/Pixar Animators, and at the national convention of Disneyana Fan Club in Anaheim, California.
TYWD Responsibilities: President
DanViets@gmail.com

Scott Cauger

Current Job Position: President Englewood Properties, LLC (Real Estate Investment & Commercial Leasing Company) and Owner/Director of the “Englewood Row Gallery and Art Space”; Retired New York corporate attorney (National Grid Company formerly Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation);
Current Board Position: Vice President Board of Directors;
TYWD Responsibilities: Custodian of TYWD donated art & fundraising sales;
Background: Grandfather A. V. Cauger, who gave Walt Disney his “first job in the movies” in Kansas City 1920; spent day with Walt Disney at the Disney Burbank Film Studios and Disneyland summer 1958.
ascenglewood@yahoo.com

Christy Cubbage CPA, CGMA

Current Job Position: Director of Client Accounting for Support Kansas City;
Current Board Position & Board Responsibilities:Treasurer.
Background: Christy has extensive experience in non-profit accounting through her work at Support Kanas City.  Christy has previously worked in public accounting at RubinBrown in Kansas City.  She is on the board of Historic Kanas City and The Accounting Advisory Board of the University of Central Missouri.  She is also active in the Missouri Society of CPAs.
christycubbage@yahoo.co

Brian Price

Current Job Position: Director, Sales, Marketing & Operations Division, Morgan Hunter Companies.
Background: Brian Price is an executive search consultant with more than 20 years of experience advising organizations on leadership hiring and talent strategy. As Director of the Sales, Marketing & Operations Division at Morgan Hunter, he partners with companies across the country to recruit professionals and executives who help drive growth, strengthen culture, and shape the future of their organizations. Brian is known for building trusted relationships, asking thoughtful questions, and seeing the person behind the résumé, earning the confidence of both clients and candidates throughout his career.

Outside of his profession, Brian has dedicated much of his time to preserving one of Kansas City's greatest stories, the place where Walt Disney discovered his creative voice. Since joining the Board of Directors of Thank You Walt Disney in 2008, including serving as Vice President, Brian has been committed to restoring the original Laugh-O-gram Studio and ensuring that future generations understand Walt's Kansas City roots. He believes the studio represents more than history. It is a reminder that great ideas often begin with determination, imagination, and the courage to pursue a dream.
TYWD Responsibilities: Board Member. Brian supports fundraising, strategic initiatives, community partnerships, and public awareness efforts that help preserve Walt Disney's first animation studio while inspiring the next generation of artists, storytellers, and entrepreneurs..
BPrice@morganhunter.com

Tyler Campbell

Current Job Position: Director, Attendance Marketing at AMC Theatres® (Leawood, KS).
Background: Tyler has over 17 years of experience as a marketing specialist for the entertainment industry. As a Director of Attendance Marketing at AMC theatres, he has helped develop and oversee the strategy, development, execution and assessment of marketing efforts that drive both attendance and continued affinity to AMC Theatres.

Previous publicity, marketing, media and event planning experience as an account executive with Allied Global Marketing (Kansas City, MO) and roles in sales & marketing with The Walt Disney Company (Lake Buena Vista, FL).
TYWD Responsibilities:  Public Relations & Media Chair.
tyler.d.campbell@live.com

Gary Sage

Current Job Position: Principal: Applied Economic Development Research and Policy
Background: Retired June 2018 as Economic Dev. Corporation of KCMO’s Research & Policy Officer, Senior Business Development Officer & EDC Co-President (17 years with the EDC that included fundraising, business development and legislative affairs); 34-year career in economic development and community college administration. Current member of the Board of Directors of Urban TEC; Advisory Board for KC IMAGINE and UMKC Alumni Association Executive Committee.    TYWD Responsibilities: Coordinating fundraising for Laugh-O-Gram restoration.
gsageaukamp@gmail.com

Ina P Montgomery, M.Ed.

Current Job Position: Executive Director, Urban TEC Technology Empowered Communities dba/ Urban TEC, UMKC Alumni Governing Board
Background: Ina P Montgomery, M.Ed. is the Founder, Executive Director and Edupreneur of Urban TEC whose mission is to help close the digital literacy divide. Over the course of her career experience, Ms. Montgomery has worked on interactive computer-based training products, served as a school technology director, designed and delivered youth development programs and has been a serial entrepreneur. Ms. Montgomery is a founding/steering council member of the Kansas City Council of Digital Inclusion and a current board member for TTYD and DigiStory.
connect@urbantec.org

Ron Green

Current Job Position: Executive Director, Digital Storytelling Center of Kansas City
Background: Prior to leading digiSTORY KC, Ron worked at Hallmark Cards for 32 years where he served as an editor, editorial manager, creative competency development manager and a government resource program manager. At Hallmark, Ron founded its Creative University program—a technical training program for Hallmark’s 1,400 creative professionals. Ron started his career at Spring Hill High School where he taught English, Speech, Drama, Debate and Forensics for nine years.

Kelsie Lauck
Current Job Position: Owner of Wayfarer Creative
Background: Kelsie is a designer and marketing strategist who helps bring dreams and ideas to life. As the owner of Wayfarer Creative, she draws from her background in design and retail to help e-commerce businesses create beautiful and strategic branding, websites, and marketing plans. Her clients have been featured on the runways of New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week, in Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, and Cosmopolitan, on Bravo, and on ABC, Fox, and CBS local and national affiliates.

In Appreciation

Jim Hopper, Johnson County Community College
Jeremy Knoll, BNIM
Terri Jordan, WizeWebz