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Gordon B. Lankton is Chairman of the Board, Nypro Inc. An engineering graduate of Cornell University, he worked for DuPont and the Stanley Works before joining Nypro in 1962 as general manager and co-owner, when the company had $600,000 revenues. Since then, and after buying the rest of Nypro in 1969, Gordon has overseen Nypro's sales growth to its current billion dollar level. Gordon is a member of the National Plastics Hall of Fame, a founder and former Chairman of the National Plastics Center and Museum, and has received a number of lifetime achievement awards from the Society of the Plastics Industry, the Society of Plastics Engineers, Cornell University, the Entrepreneur of the Year competition, Plastics News magazine and others. He is a member of the Board of Trustees at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 1998 he sold his Nypro stock to Nypro's Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), creating one of the largest U.S. employee-owned companies. | 