Business to Business Breakfast
Featuring Alex Rankin, Chairman of the Board, Vulcan Springs
March 4, 2016, 8 to 9:30 a.m.
The Cock n Bull
Peddlers Village, Route 263 and Street Road, Lahaska
$25- Members; $35-Potential Members
Come hear a true American success story.
Raised on the South Side
of Chicago, Alex Rankin worked after high school as a mail clerk and, during summer vacation, worked in a variety of industries. He served in the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1953 to 1955, got married in 1956 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering in 1957 with a goal to have his own business in 10 years.
Alex founded the Vulcan Spring & Manufacturing Company in his basement and began manufacturing constant torque springs for the Hasbro talking G.I. Joe soldier doll. Today, Vulcan Springs are used in thousands of products such as locomotives, surgical tools, appliances and point of purchase displays by customers throughout the world.
In 1995, he was one of four founders and Chairman of FirstService Bank with the first office in Lansdale, PA. In 2003, the bank, with nine branches, was sold to National Penn Bank in Boyertown, PA. He became a director of that bank. He is presently an investor and director of the Bitmicro Company in Fremont, Ca., a firm that designs and manufactures solid state flash memory storage products.
An avid theater goer, Alex met, supported and encouraged Carolyn Rossi Copeland. They began the process of producing the musical - Amazing Grace. The show closed on Broadway and is now being scheduled into theaters throughout the United States.
Reserve your spot and find out more about this visionary and entrepreneur, his life and business philosophies and his unusual road to success, while enjoying a great breakfast and forum to build your business connections.
