Cheryl Tan is the founder and CEO of Cheryl Tan Media, a coaching, consulting and video marketing company based in Virginia Beach. Cheryl believes everyone has a story to tell. Her company's mission is to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and corporations tell those stories more effectively on video so they can create a greater impact within their communities.
Prior to starting her company in 2014, Cheryl was a broadcast journalist, working for TV stations in Georgia and Virginia. You may remember her during her time on WAVY TV 10's morning show. She currently hosts Connect on WVEC-TV. In her 20-year career in television news, she had the honor of telling thousands of stories for a TV audience. Now she shares the skills she learned in the newsroom to help businesses and organizations around the country understand the media and create their own pieces of valuable content.
Cheryl hosts the STANDOUT podcast, which offers strategies and stories to inspire high-performing entrepreneurs.
She and her husband have three sons and live in Virginia Beach.
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In 2014, Hamilton Perkins founded Hamilton Perkins Collection, an independent brand, designing and producing unique and award winning bags and accessories from recycled materials.
Hamilton Perkins Collection exists to create timeless limited edition bags made from recycled plastic water bottles, pineapple leaf fiber, and billboard vinyl. The result is that no two bags are ever the same.
Our first design, the Earth Bag Premium, was created so that our customers would not only carry a bag that was stylish but carry a bag they could be proud of. We surveyed more than 1,000 consumers to obtain their thoughts and feedback for each component of the Earth Bag Premium, which soon became one of our most popular designs.
Perkins was the winner of the Virginia Velocity Tour hosted by the Governor of Virginia, and the recipient of a HUD Community Development Block Grant. The non-profit B Lab honored Hamilton Perkins Collection as a "Best for the World Overall" B Corporation in 2017.
Hamilton Perkins Collection has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Money Magazine, and The Washington Post.
The brand is currently offered in nearly 100 leading department stores and specialty stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe.
