Q&A: Michael Bridges talks his first job, working out and wearing polyester suits

Alumnus Michael Bridges, president of Peerless Technologies Corp.

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Michael Bridges fits that traditional definition of a go-getter and a family man.

The president of Fairborn-based Peerless Technologies Corp. — who was born in Cincinnati and whose family moved to the Dayton area when he was in first grade — still beams with pride when he talks about his newest grandchild.

Bridges, who describes himself as ambitious and impatient, graduated from Stebbins High School and Wright State University, where he finished with a systems engineering/mechanical degree. He took classes at Wright State while still a senior in high school and started working full-time in the industry — at the F-16 program office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base through a defense contractor that’s no longer around — while still a senior in college.

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