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that made us as strong as we were,” said Robertson, who thanked the entire Linpac team for their support of him throughout his career. “I became a CPA during my time there and got my MBA after that and it was all because of Linpac’s support. I also learned a lot from Scott Soloway when he came on board and would audit me. “Linpac was a very personable company. You got to know the people and they got to know you. I felt free to really grow to become who I could be and I really did grow a lot during that time. At the same time technology was booming, Richie would just integrate the 34 or 36 to the AS4 100 and if I had a problem, Richie got it fixed, depend- ing on Nigel’s approval. Bottom line, we were all friends who would have the occasional argument but we all still worked together very well.” Scott Soloway first met the “characters” at Linpac back
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