Tom Anthony

Tom Anthony is a Virginia based Internet Marketing Consultant with an extensive background in business, advertising, and media production.

Tom began his career as a Radio Broadcaster in Central Florida evolving from disk jockey to broadcast reporter and winning national assignments as a free-lance field reporter for ABC and CBS Radio News, mainly covering the US Space Program from the Kennedy Space Center.

In the 1980’s Tom turned his talents to advertising 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 a radio and television advertising producer. In 1993 he received 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 new family south, Tom accepted a position as Production Director for a Norfolk Virginia radio group and resumed a journalists role, holding a position with Norfolk, 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, the original Signature Voice of the Fox Television Network,  the voice for CBS Network comedies,  and in-show announcer for top-rated shows like America’s Got Talent, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, the Primetime Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and many more. . . and still a client.)

In 2000 Tom was recruited to head the New Media division of Goodman Consulting, then 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.

Tom went on to become an equity partner in Hampton Roads Host, a Virginia Beach based Network management firm, and in 2004 took an equity position in Pinnacle Online. He was later elected Chief Executive Officer and 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.

In 2006 Tom was appointed to the Virginia Joint Commission on Technology and Science Advisory Committee (JCOTS). In 2007 Tom joined Chesapeake Virginia web developer Web Teks as Vice President, Client Services and in 2009 he launched IMS Strategic Internet Marketing Services.

Today Tom lives in Chesapeake Virginia, is an amateur musician and the host of the popular Web Strategies Podcast available on iTunes.