Jordan Young, president of Danbury-based Fairfield Processing Corp., was recognized as the 2018 Macricostas Entrepreneur of the Year by Western Connecticut State University at a ceremony and luncheon on Thursday, March 29, 2018.

Young, who has served as president of Fairfield Processing since August 2009, has carried on a family tradition of entrepreneurial vision, product innovation and market development as the third generation of his family to lead the company since its founding in 1940. He continues to build on the legacies inherited from his grandfather, founder Samuel Young, and his father, Roy Young, who served as company president from 1980 to 2008 and currently serves as chairman and chief executive officer. He received a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Mandarin Chinese from Lehigh University College of Business and Economics and a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University.