Ron started his first business at the tender age of 16; PhotoCop Services was a wedding photography business that eventually evolved into aerial photography. Ron founded Copfer & Associates (C&A), Inc. in 1986 as a documentary, training and marketing films production company. In 1992, his firm won a Silver Medal at the New York International Film and Television Festival for the documentary film, “Kids in Crisis.” In 1987 Ron co-founded and still serves as Chairman of Visual Evidence – eDiscovery, LLC, one of the oldest demonstrative evidence and computer forensic firms in the country.

In 1993, Ron and his team beta tested the first Mosaic browser for Marc Andreesen and other students at the University of Illinois who invented the World Wide Web—and shortly thereafter built the first commercial website between Chicago and New York. These events soon led to requests from customers for website design and development and the future direction of his career was established. In 1998 Ron co-founded Cobra Training Systems, a 25 person computer-based, eLearning systems start-up in Columbus, Ohio, that pioneered interactive, end-user training courses for SAP R3 software.