LEADERSHIP

• Dan Copeland, Founder, FATHERS & SONS ADVENTURE CLUB™, is also the Director of Business Development & Marketing for Long International, Inc., an internationally renowned construction claims consulting company operating primarily in the oil & gas, refinery, petrochemical, process plant and industrial market sectors. In 2005 Dan started the highly successful FATHERS & SONS ADVENTURE CLUB™ so that fathers and sons can have the best chance to connect, bond, and truly love and enjoy each other. Dan is committed to running this club until he can no longer hike or enjoy adventures, and then hopes to pass it along to his sons. Prior to his current position, Dan was the Executive Pastor for one of the fastest growing churches in Virginia where he dedicated two years of his life to serving others. Prior to this, Dan was an Executive in Brazil’s largest IT Services company, and prior to that was the Director of Business Development for Hill International. In 1993 Dan co-founded The Center For Management Development And Training, Inc. which held construction contracts and claims seminars throughout the Middle East, S.E. Asia, India, the UK, and the U.S. And when Dan graduated from college, he worked for ABC Sports where he covered the Washington Bullets and Georgetown Hoyas basketball teams. Dan graduated from George Mason University in 1987 with a B.A. in Communication, and has completed graduate coursework at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dan is happily married to Janice Marie Copeland and he has two sons (Cameron & Zachary) who love adventure and one daughter (Emily) who prefers shopping instead.

• Dale Copeland is my father... Dale retired as President of James Martin Government Consulting, and he spent 35 years as a highly successful global IT executive. He is now splitting his time living with his wife Patty on the Florida/Georgia border in the winter, and on Deep Creek Lake in the mountains of western, Maryland, in the summer. Dale graduated in 1962 from Purdue University with a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences. Dale, who has been a father for 40+ years, is very proud to help me with this worthwhile venture…and he and my mom (Mary Lane Rollins) are my heroes!

The Copeland Boy’s Cabin Camping, July 2008