About me
Dwight Vicks is President of Vicks Print & Distribution, a company founded by his grandfather in 1918. What began as a letterpress operation, Vicks has evolved into a digital print and distribution company serving niche publishers. The company employs 90 professionals and has two facilities totaling 260,000 sq. ft. near Utica, New York. Upon earning a BA in economics and history from Cornell University in 1984, Dwight joined The Bank of New York. He returned to Cornell to earn an MBA before joining Vicks in 1991. Dwight was elected President of the Board of the Book Manufacturers Institute (BMI) in 2023. He served as Treasurer of the local and national boards of the Printing Industries of America. Dwight is one of the founders of the International Thyroid Oncology Group (ITOG) and currently serves as its Chief Financial Officer. ITOG is comprised of leading physicians and scientists from preeminent cancer research institutions around the world. The mission of ITOG is to cure thyroid cancer through facilitating clinical trials. ITOG was inspired by Dwight’s wife of 25 years, Jean, who succumbed to thyroid cancer in April 2013 after a thirteen-year battle. The Massachusetts General Hospital named Dwight to “The One Hundred” in 2011 and The Printing Industries of America awarded him the John Peter Zenger medal in 2012 both for his volunteer leadership with ITOG. Dwight lives in Clinton, New York. He has three grown children, twins Sara and Dwight and daughter Emily.
