Author Bio
Since 1999 Gary McAvoy has served as volunteer Seattle Base Camp Leader for the Jane Goodall Institute, coordinating Dr. Goodall's promotional events and fund-raising efforts in the Pacific Northwest. Cooking with natural, organic foods has been Gary's lifelong avocation and provided the inspiration for Harvest for Hope, further supporting Dr. Goodall's mission of protecting animals, the planet, and the environment.
A high-tech entrepreneur for over two decades, Gary is the founder and CEO of GetToTheTop a global search marketing firm based in Seattle. His groundbreaking book Cracking the New Economy: Business Tools for the Entrepreneur (Washington Software Alliance, 2000) is a compilation of 70 experts speaking to the methods, strategies, and tactics for building and maintaining thriving technology companies. Gary's achievements in the software industry have been widely recognized, most notably when he was named a semi-finalist in the 1995 Pacific Northwest Inc. Magazine/Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Gary is also publisher of the Literati Network, the Web's oldest community of literary websites. He is currently at work on a novel.