Grant Copeland

PRESIDENT / CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER

For many of the agency's top client partners, Grant leads marketing strategy, branding and content development with an all-in approach. He's not just shaking hands and kissing babies; he's doing the work.

Biography

• Copeland is regarded as one of the country's top brand and creative strategists – having won dozens of awards in branding, identity, print, advertising, web, television, radio, video, packaging and environmental design.
• Grant's brand strategies have transformed organizations and impacted millions of dollars in new revenue.
• In 2011, Copeland was selected by Hartford Business Journal as one of its 40 Under Forty for "showing significant success in his career, a passion for what he does and a dedication to community involvement."
• Grant has developed and designed campaigns for some of the world's best brands – including AT&T, ESPN, FedEx, IBM, Iron Mountain and Holiday Inn.
• Copeland's work has been featured in publications such as USA Today and Sports Illustrated, and at events ranging from international conferences to the Super Bowl.
• Prior to WORX, Copeland was a Partner of i2i Creative, a successful creative and design agency he co-founded at age 23 and merged with WORX in 2005.
• Grant and his 12-year old daughter, Ella, co-chaired the 2018/2019 United Way of Greater Waterbury campaign, raising over $4 million – the second-highest fundraising amount in the organization's 77-year history.
• Copeland created a new United Way organization called UPSTARTERS® – an ambitious initiative aimed at exposing youth across a 10-town region to the needs of the community, and getting them actively involved in the resource-raising.
• Grant also serves on the Board of Directors, Campaign Leadership Council, and is a former Chairperson of the Communications Advisory Council, for United Way.
• Copeland earned a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY). He was a four-year starter and captain of the Skidmore baseball team, earning All-Conference and All-New York selections his senior year. During that year, he was scouted by the Philadelphia Phillies.
• Grant is one of only 22 athletes in Skidmore history to earn Academic All-American honors.
• He was also inducted into the Portland (CT) Sports Hall of Fame.
• Grant lives in Guilford, CT, with his wife Meghan, daughter Ella, son Adam and dogs Peanut and Champ.