Touting family business in her December 2011 column for Inc. magazine, columnist Meg Cadoux Hirshberg asked for input from her readers. One struck a chord:
“Not many kids have their dads pilot them to summer camp or get to watch fireworks from the air. My former company, Rokop Corporation, which supplied continuous casting machines to steelmakers, owned a couple of airplanes. I learned how to fly them and was able to take my kids on flights all around the region.” Nik Rokop, managing director — Entrepreneurship Academy Illinois Institute of Technology