Cook Marketing & Advertising was founded in 2003 and became an LLC in 2009. In the telecommunications business, Ken has held full-time positions as Vice President of Marketing for CHR Solutions in Dallas and Director of Marketing and Customer Service for Hemingford Cooperative Telephone Company [HCTC] in Hemingford, Nebraska. CHR Solutions is an engineering and financial services consulting firm to rural independent telephone companies; HCTC is a rural telephone company.

Ken has held management positions with ad agencies [and their branch offices] in Chicago, Richmond, Charlotte, Atlanta, Birmingham, Columbia, South Carolina and Jacksonville, Florida. His functional experience for clients includes media, research, sales promotion, branding, planning and business development.

 Cook holds a bachelors degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia and a Masters degree in Advertising from the University of Illinois. At the U of I, he was a member of Kappa Tau Alpha honorary society and a James Webb Young fellow.

CM&A is an associate member of the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association [NTCA] and the Organization For The Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies [OPASTCO].

Ken is an avid outdoorsman and enjoys hunting, fishing, shooting and canoeing.  In 2008, he began freelance writing and has placed a number of articles in outdoor media. He also writes a bi-weekly outdoors column for a weekly newspaper in South Georgia.