Gunter Outdoor Advertising  

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Thomas "TOM"Gunter better know to the International business communityas the founder of several successful businesses and mentor to manymore.

Tom resides in Ocala, Florida with his beautiful wife Angela. Tom has four daughtersand three sons.  

Gunter started as an apprentice in an outdoor advertising business in1960, by the end of the third year, with less than a hundred dollars inhis pocket, he said his goodbye’s to his employer and open the doors to his ownoutdoor advertising company. When his former employer was asked about Gunteropening his own business?  He replied “How much can one man do?”

Never under estimate the power of one. Over the next 3 years Gunterwould capture the major advertising accounts in central Florida and build andsell his first million dollar+ business.

It took him two years to build and sell the second million dollar + business. Over the following years he would continue to build, buy and selloutdoor adverting companies and plants across American from sea to sea. Over the past 45 years he has had the privilege and opportunity towork with some of the largest and best know names in the outdooradvertising industry, many would become the entrepreneurs that would shape theoutdoor advertising 
industry as we know it today.

It was not all work along the way; Gunter had the opportunity to playout many different roles along his road to success as he ventured intopolitics, local, state and national, working with legislators, governors andfinally the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.  In the mid  80's Gunter would serve onseveral committees for the Regan Administration.  

In the spring of 1989,  Hollywood tracked him down through a mutual friend in Washington    D.C., one of the movie industries most noted producer’s Richard Zanuck was producing a new film for distributionthrough Warner Brothers.  Zanuck's art director asked Tom on behalf of Mr. Zanuck if he would consider producing the billboards for 
upcoming 1940’s movie named “Driving Miss Daisy”.  Gunter accepted, by the following year “Drivin g Miss Daisy" would win three Academy Awards and become “Best Picture of The Year”.

Gunter was quickly adopted into the Hollywood circle by studios and producers, "Driving Miss Daisy" had open a new door, Gunter would soon buildhis own film and television production company and develop a close bond withthe movie and television industry, a bond  that continues until thisday.  Back home in Florida he had been elected president of “The FloridaMotion Picture and Television Guild”  where he would serve threeconsecutive terms. By 
the end of third year Gunter stepped down as president to spend moretime with his growing family and focus his attention on the increasingdemands of his growing outdoor advertising business.

After leaving Hollywood to the dreams of others, he continued building hisoutdoor adverting company expanding into other venues of the outdoorindustry while  managing  and helping other outdoor advertisingindustry entrepreneurs.  Tom’s the kind of guy that will go out ofhis way to help almost anyone who will listen. One of Tom's favoriterelatives was “Will Rogers” who once said “I never met a man I did not like”,  with asmile on his face Tom said he did not completely share the same views withcousin Will, Tom said  "Apparently he did not meet some of the peopleI met."  but none the less Will Rogers was one of his favorite revelatives. Tom and Will bothshared  the same native Americanbloodline and  great  grandfather, John Gunter.

One of Tom's favorite writings he associated himself with was written bythe famous American writer Robert Frost, it was a poem,  “The Road Not Taken”.  The two books that most influenced his formativebusiness years was “The Power of PositiveThinking” by  Norman Vincent Peale and  “Think and Grow Rich” written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by Andrew Carnegie.  

While building his own reputation and place in the outdoor industry, hetouched the lives of many average American businessmen and women along theway, many who listened and later became successful business entrepreneurs joining him on "The Road Not Taken".