Brianne Rogers Dugan has over a decade of political, policy, communications, and management experience, having held director positions in both Washington, D.C. and Bozeman, Montana for Montana’s longest-serving U.S. Senator, Max Baucus, as well as serving as Montana Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator John Walsh. She rocketed into the private sector in 2015, launching her consulting business, Bird Dog Strategies, LLC. Bree has become an essential asset to her clients, steering major organizations in the region through rapid response and crisis communications while providing brand strategy leadership that has resulted in triple digit sales growth for other clients. Bree is a native Montanan committed to making the state a better place, and known by colleagues across the state for getting things done and building lasting relationships. In 2016 and 2017, she was Sarah Calhoun’s right hand woman, helping to produce the most successful Red Ants Pants Music Festival to date with over 16,000 attendees. In 2013, she co-produced Senator Baucus’ Economic Development Summit in Butte, a 4,000-attendee business conference featuring eleven keynote presentations including: Google’s Eric Schmidt, FedEx’s Fred Smith, Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Ford’s Alan Mullaly. In 2011, she produced the two-week, 2,500-attendee Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Second Senior Officials Meeting in Big Sky, MT in conjunction with the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Bree spends her free time enjoying Montana’s great outdoors. You’ll find her chasing upland birds and waterfowl hunting with her father year-round. She lives in Bozeman with her husband, John, and their black lab, Scully.