| For years before joining Kingma Agency as a partner, Tom
Atkins described himself as a "technical creative", and no
wonder.
Atkins was one of the founding four of The Whitlock Group's broadcast
division, and later was a partner at TGS, Inc, A broadcast systems
integrator. During those fifteen years, he was part of the technical team
that designed some of the groundbreaking DTV and HDTV systems across the
country.
At the same time, Atkins developed marketing campaigns for both
companies, with strong results. Whitlock's Broadcast division went from a
startup to over $30M/year sales. And at TGS as VP of sales and marketing,
TGS grew at a rate of over 150%/year his first five years there. In 2004,
he began Summit Manor Marketing, focused on technology firms. Summit Manor
merged with The Kingma Agency in late 2005.
Atkins is a writer who has written for publications ranging from
Broadcast Engineering, to Artist's Sketchbook, to Sales and Marketing
magazine, as well as poetry, fiction and drama. His photographs have been
used in magazines, as book covers, as well as many marketing campaigns. he
is a former music Director for Sing Out Roanoke Valley, a pen and ink
artist and part time dramatist. He is a member and deacon at
Troutville Baptist church and full partner at Kingma.
Atkins uses his combination of technical expertise, marketing saavy,
business experience and creativity to work directly with clients in
a variety of technology and business fields.
Contact Tom Atkins
(Note to ourselves, I would want
to do a similar bio on each person we choose to focus on, emphasizing the
depth of experience, creativity and knowledge. There would be links on
each page to things that emphasize that range. For instance on my page
there would be links to former companies, maybe to my personal site, etc.
On someone like Karrie's page, there would a link to a gallery of some of
her best work that people could see. Got the idea?)
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