Gordon Smith (gordon@kissmanufacturing.com)

Gordon was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba (really, there is such a place) in 1950. He was trained as a tool and die maker at C. A. Norgren, Littleton, Colorado. He returned to Canada in 1975 and went to work for Comptec International Ltd., a two color molding company, in Vancouver, B.C. In his fourteen years at Comptec he moved from the position of Mold Maker to become

manager of the Tooling, Engineering, and R&D departments. During this period he was responsible for increasing the machine operator output by a factor of 6. He also helped move Comptec into the telecommunications business and developed production systems for assembly of telephones which are in use today by almost every major telephone manufacturer in the world. He left Comptec in 1989 to start Kiss Manufacturing.