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Gary Cope / Founder
Gary Cope is founder and owner of CWI Media, LLC, a small business providing Website, graphic and online marketing development for small- to mid-sized businesses and organizations. Gary also serves as a search engine optimization and social media consultant for Business Bullpen, LLC.
Through CWI Media, Gary founded VTHokieFans.com in 2005, and then in 2010, CWI Media acquired TechHoops.com from its founder, Todd Wickersty, who is founder and co-owner of Business Bullpen. Todd started TechHoops.com as a labor of love, but as the site grew both in scope and traffic, it started to lose the "fun factor" for Todd, and after four years, he decided it was time to step away. He contacted Gary and asked about his interested in taking over the site. Gary, who has been contributing to TechHoops.com for the last three years, jumped at the opportunity. And now AdvertiseVA.com offers a powerhouse duo of Virginia Tech athletics fan sites with more than 300,000 combined pageviews per year and growing.
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From TV sports anchor to self-taught Web designer and entrepreneur, Gary has had a unique career path since graduating from Virginia Tech in 1997. Armed with a bachelor's degree in Communications, Gary moved to Michigan to work as the Iron Mountain bureau chief for WLUC-TV. After a short, and very cold, stint in the Upper Peninsula, Gary returned to Virginia where landed a videographer gig with WSLS-TV in Roanoke, but quickly worked his way up to sports reporter and anchor. He also co-produced Virginia Tech Sports Today during the 1998 and 1999 seasons.
Gary left WSLS in September 1999 to take the sports reporter and weekend anchor job at WVIR-TV in Charlottesville. He spent 2-1/2 years at NBC29 before leaving television to become the sports editor for The Culpeper Star-Exponent and as a sports talk radio show host at WKAV in Charlottesville. After the managing editor of the paper abruptly resigned, Gary interviewed for the job, but Media General dragged its feet, and the state’s top weekly paper, The Fauquier Citizen, stole him away. At the Citizen, Gary went on to earn three Virginia Press Association awards: one for his sports feature writing and two for layout and design.
Gary also has more than five years experience in corporate communications with three years at SRA International, Inc., in Fairfax, VA., and 2-1/2 years at Luna Innovations in Blacksburg, VA.
Ginger Meier / Business Manager
Ginger is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. After graduating from The College of William & Mary, she went to work for Ernst & Young in Germany for a couple years before moving back to the states to earn her master's degree in accounting from Virginia Tech. After earning her master's, Ginger worked as a public accountant for a local CPA firm, where she worked toward, and successfully obtained her CPA license. Ginger left public accounting to work in capital accounting for Norfolk Southern. In addition to her full-time job, she serves as CWI Media, LLC's business manager.
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Gary Cope / Founder
Gary Cope is founder and owner of CWI Media, LLC, a small business providing Website, graphic and online marketing development for small- to mid-sized businesses and organizations. Gary also serves as a search engine optimization and social media consultant for Business Bullpen, LLC.Through CWI Media, Gary founded VTHokieFans.com in 2005, and then in 2010, CWI Media acquired TechHoops.com from its founder, Todd Wickersty, who is founder and co-owner of Business Bullpen. Todd started TechHoops.com as a labor of love, but as the site grew both in scope and traffic, it started to lose the "fun factor" for Todd, and after four years, he decided it was time to step away. He contacted Gary and asked about his interested in taking over the site. Gary, who has been contributing to TechHoops.com for the last three years, jumped at the opportunity. And now AdvertiseVA.com offers a powerhouse duo of Virginia Tech athletics fan sites with more than 300,000 combined pageviews per year and growing.
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From TV sports anchor to self-taught Web designer and entrepreneur, Gary has had a unique career path since graduating from Virginia Tech in 1997. Armed with a bachelor's degree in Communications, Gary moved to Michigan to work as the Iron Mountain bureau chief for WLUC-TV. After a short, and very cold, stint in the Upper Peninsula, Gary returned to Virginia where landed a videographer gig with WSLS-TV in Roanoke, but quickly worked his way up to sports reporter and anchor. He also co-produced Virginia Tech Sports Today during the 1998 and 1999 seasons.
Gary left WSLS in September 1999 to take the sports reporter and weekend anchor job at WVIR-TV in Charlottesville. He spent 2-1/2 years at NBC29 before leaving television to become the sports editor for The Culpeper Star-Exponent and as a sports talk radio show host at WKAV in Charlottesville. After the managing editor of the paper abruptly resigned, Gary interviewed for the job, but Media General dragged its feet, and the state’s top weekly paper, The Fauquier Citizen, stole him away. At the Citizen, Gary went on to earn three Virginia Press Association awards: one for his sports feature writing and two for layout and design.
Gary also has more than five years experience in corporate communications with three years at SRA International, Inc., in Fairfax, VA., and 2-1/2 years at Luna Innovations in Blacksburg, VA.
Ginger Meier / Business Manager
Ginger is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. After graduating from The College of William & Mary, she went to work for Ernst & Young in Germany for a couple years before moving back to the states to earn her master's degree in accounting from Virginia Tech. After earning her master's, Ginger worked as a public accountant for a local CPA firm, where she worked toward, and successfully obtained her CPA license. Ginger left public accounting to work in capital accounting for Norfolk Southern. In addition to her full-time job, she serves as CWI Media, LLC's business manager.
