William Gindlesperger ’68

e-LYNXX founder and CEO one of the “most influential procurement experts in North America”

by Sarah Williams ’11

April 5, 2010

As the founder and CEO of e-LYNXX Corporation and the recipient of numerous business and philanthropic awards, William Gindlesperger ’68 credits Dickinson’s “ideas and philosophies” for his success.

William Gindlesperger ’68 founded his first company in 1968, a printing company that he built from three employees to a staff of 236 in less than seven years. In 1975, he founded ABC Advisors and its successor, e-LYNXX Corp.

Gindlesperger holds two powerful business-method patents, and through those patents, e-LYNXX offers its clients significant reduction of 25 percent to 50 percent in the measured procured cost of specification-defined goods and services, such as procured print. The company has been named one of the top 100 procurement firms in North America by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine and is endorsed by Printing Industries of America (PIA) and Educational & Institutional Cooperative Purchasing (E&I).

Supply & Demand Chain Executive also named Gindlesperger to its 2010 list of the most influential procurement experts in North America. In 2009, he was inducted into PIA’s prestigious Ben Franklin Society for his lifetime contributions to the printing industry. He has been named Innovator of the Year and Volunteer of the Year by the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce and also has served as a trustee of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church in Chambersburg, Pa.  His articles on working with the U. S. Government Print Office (GPO) and reducing the procured cost of print are widely published in professional journals and trade media.

“My major in religion at Dickinson has provided me with the underpinnings on which I have attempted to make balanced judgments throughout my life,” he says. “Although my businesses employ attorneys, CPAs, MBAs and other professionals, it is the ideas and philosophies that I discovered at Dickinson that have served me well throughout my career. Even today I remain indebted to Professors Harry Booth, Daniel Bechtel and Bruce Andrews, and most especially to Registrar John White, who took an interest in me, for their immense contributions to my educational and personal growth.”