Background
Kemp was born in 1960, in Bristol, Tennessee, United States.
Kemp was born in 1960, in Bristol, Tennessee, United States.
In 1982, Kemp graduated from the University of Tennessee with a BS in Communications. He also attended Wharton for several leadership mini-terms on Marketing.
Kemp is the publisher and owner of Floor Focus Magazine and Floordaily.net. Prior to publishing, Kemp spent over 20 years in marketing—initially with two consumer products companies (Lego toys and Shakespeare Fishing Tackle) and then he moved over to B2B marketing as Vice President of Marketing for SI Corporation—an Industrial textile company whose largest product line was carpet backing. After Shaw Industries bought SI, Kemp decided to leave the corporate world and pursue his entrepreneurial itch. At age 45, he decided to listen to Theodore Roosevelt and avoid becoming one of “those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
