

Southern born and bred Tish juggles a successful production company and music management career, all while being a loving mother of five and dedicated wife to Billy Ray Cyrus. Tish has been navigating the music industry since the early 90s with the rise of Billy Ray and after learning the ropes; she launched and managed the wildly successful careers of her daughters Miley and Noah. Tish first fell in love with creating content when she collaborated with Nicholas Sparks to develop and produce The Last Song. Most recently, Tish has started the second season of her podcast she hosts with daughter Brandi, and is so proud of her kid’s recent accomplishments — Miley’s newest album Plastic Hearts hit #1 on the Rock Chart and Noah was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2021 Grammys. Tish splits her time between Nashville and Los Angeles.

Dannah Axelrod started out her development career at Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television, where she assisted in the development, staffing and casting of multiple shows such as “The Bastard Executioner” and “24:Legacy.” From there, she went on to work at Ben Silverman and Howard Owen’s company Propagate Content, where she aided in the develop and sale of multiple shows such as CBS’ “Blood & Treasure” and the “Charmed” remake on the CW. Before joining HopeTown as the Head of Development, she was the Director of Development for Cartel Pictures where she developed and help set up multiple movies in the TV, streaming and independent feature space.