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About Our AuthorAlan Byrd
Alan Byrd is the director of sales, marketing and public relations for McCree Inc., an 80-year-old architecture and construction firm based in Orlando. In that role, Byrd oversees all company efforts in those areas. Prior to joining McCree, Byrd was the director of circulation sales and marketing for the Orlando Business Journal, where he oversaw the weekly publication’s growth in readership and presence in the community. He was also an award-winning reporter for 10 years at the newspaper, winning dozens of local, state, regional and national awards for his coverage of Central Florida’s tourism, sports and transportation industries. In 1998, his reporting of the Moscow Circus was named as the best business story in the United States by the Society of Business Editors and Writers. Byrd holds many community leadership positions throughout Central Florida. He is currently the in-coming president of the Coastal Conservation Association’s Orlando chapter and state board member of the organization, vice president of the Apopka Chamber, executive committee member of the Central Florida Zoo and a director in the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce, West Orange Chamber of Commerce, Commercial Real Estate Women and Valencia Foundation. He is also on the finance committee of the Education Foundation of Osceola County and the Allied Relations Committee of the Central Florida Hotel & Lodging Association. He is also a member of the Seminole County Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Kissimmee-Osceola County Chamber of Commerce, Haines City Chamber of Commerce, South Lake Chamber of Commerce, Casselberry Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Industrial and Office Professionals and Greater Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce. He is a past board member of the Executive Advisory Board Exchange, American Marketing Association’s Advisory Council and Central Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Byrd is particularly proud of his fundraising for charities. In 2005, he started an annual deep sea fishing trip, which raised nearly $12,000 to be used for a Women and Children’s shelter for the Salvation Army. He also chaired the Coastal Conservation Association’s annual Orlando banquet, which net nearly $95,000 to help preserve marine resources throughout the state. His band, Barefoot Underground, has held several benefit concerts for Cystic Fibrosis, raising $5,000 for the charity. In his spare time, Byrd plays guitar and sings with the Barefoot Underground at the Loaded Hog in Downtown Orlando and for various charities in Central Florida. He is the author of Florida Spring Training: Your Guide to the Grapefruit League, a nationally published guidebook to touring Florida. Byrd has two children, Brandon, 14, and Abigail, 2, and has been married to Melissa for eight years. Florida Spring Training is his first book. Didn't find what you were looking for? Try a Google search.
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