Ben Franklin Honor Society Inducts Eight Industry Notables

Gibson got his start in the industry by working in his family’s printing company, Gibson Printing Company. He purchased the company from his father in 1982 and ran Gibson Graphics until 2000, when he sold it to Rider Dickerson, but remained with the company to serve as its vice president of sales.

Ken Rizzo, Printing Industries of America (posthumous)
Rizzo started working as a consultant for GATF in 1990 and left in 2000 to become a process engineer for Gulf States Paper Corporation, one of the country’s largest producers of packaging products and paperboard, but he returned to the nonprofit world, re-joining Printing Industries of America (formerly GATF) in 2006. Among his most recent accomplishments was the creation and development of 2009 of Printing Industries’ Digital Production Assessment (DPA) and Digital Production Excellence Accreditation (DPEA audit certificate) programs.