W Robert Lappin

Mr. Lappin is founder, music director and conductor of the Palm Beach Pops, which debuted at the Kravis Center in 1992. Mr. Lappin and the Pops appear in an annual subscription series at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and Florida Atlantic University. He also serves as guest conductor for symphonic pops orchestras throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is the former chairman and president of Lappin Communications, Inc., which owns radio stations. Mr. Lappin is former chairman and president of Pepsi-Cola bottling companies in New England, and also has served on many corporate and philanthropic boards throughout the United States. He received the first Cultural Leader of the Year Award and was named a Distinguished Artist Scholar-in-Residence by Florida Atlantic University. He is a graduate of Ithaca College.