Professional Bio

Tom Anthony is a Chesapeake, Virginia based Media and Internet Marketing Consultant with an extensive background in the production and business of both traditional and “new” media.

While still in high school in the early 1970’s, Tom began his career as a radio broadcaster in Central Florida. He quickly evolved from disk jockey into a broadcast journalist, winning assignments as a free-lance field reporter for ABC and CBS radio news, mainly covering the US space program from the Kennedy Space Center.
An expanded look at Tom’s early broadcast career is discussed here

In the 1980’s, Tom turned his talents to commercial audio production, creating regional radio spots for numerous ad agencies. In 1985 his move to metropolitan New York provided an opportunity to venture into the entertainment industry first as a performer, and later as the general manager of a legendary Long Island night club known as Chevy’s Belair Café.

During the 1990’s Tom returned to media in the highly competitive New York market as both a radio and television producer. In 1993 he received both a BOLI (Best of Long Island) advertising award and an RAB (Radio Advertising Bureau) Mercury Award for his achievements. Tom’s work was also featured on the internationally distributed Radio Advertising Bureau’s “Great Ideas” reel of creative radio commercials.

Moving his Family south, Tom accepted a position as Production Director for a Norfolk Virginia radio group and resumed a journalists role, holding a free lance position with Hampton Roads Virginia based Portfolio Weekly, as its first ever technology editor.

In 1996 launched his own a multimedia and web-design company specializing in streaming media on the Internet. His success in this endeavor led The New York Times Company to invite his company to design and implement the New Media Marketing Plan for (then NYT owned and operated) WTKR television in Norfolk, Virginia. Other notable clients included the National Patient Advocate Foundation and Joe Cipriano Promos.
(Joe is one of the most recognized television voice talents in America, being the voice of NBC drama promos the Fox Television Network, and the Food Network).

In 2000 Tom was recruited to head the New Media division of Goodman Consulting and Technology, a Division of one of the largest certified public accounting firms based in Virginia, Goodman & Company LLC. There Tom helped launch an enormously successful web application development enterprise.

He later joined Web Teks, a Chesapeake Virginia web development firm, as Sales Director leaving only to become an equity partner in a Virginia Beach Network Management company, Hampton Roads Host, Inc. In 2004 Tom took an equity position in Pinnacle Online Inc., and in 2005 became its Chief Executive Officer.

Tom headed the team creating Pinnacle Wireless LLC, trading as “Atrius Technologies”, by merging Pinnacle Online, Hampton Roads Host and acquiring a third technology company; Virginia Beach based TeliOn. As Chief Executive Officer, Tom led Pinnacle Wireless to end its initial fiscal year in the black.

Tom retired his position as the Chief Executive Officer and ended his direct employment by the firm to persue his interests in media. In 2007 rejoined Web Teks as Vice President, Client Services. In 2009 Tom launched IMS Strategic Internet Marketing Services. IMS uses a combination of consulting services and turn-key management of Search Engine placement, Social Media Marketing, and Internet Delivered Advertising. The company also manages and produces webinars, corporate videos, and audio and video podcasts.