Born in a small German community in southwestern Wisconsin, Richard Ringelstetter was surrounded with the dairy and cheese culture Wisconsin is known for. Richard started learning the craft of making cheese at an early age and evolved with the cheese business as it changed from small mom and pop factories to large manufacturing plants. Water plays a big part in cheese operations. That is where Richard learned to conserve as much as he could. Water is expensive to get AND get rid of.

Richard managed a dairy cooperative in the Kickapoo Valley of WI in 1980. The cheese factory cooperative had an old, limited capacity cheese factory. Over the course of 5 years Richard helped build a new modern cheese plant which took them from $1.9 million in sales to over $12 million.

After 10 years, Richard moved to a large national dairy manufacturing operation as a manager in their most demanding facility. Richard modernized this facility to state of the art and moved the sales from the lower paying commodity business to the higher paying specialty market. All while working with the Teamster Union that were organized in our operations.

In 1994, Richard took a job with the JR Simplot company as production manager of their Nampa cheese plant.  A few years later, Richard was offered a sales position in chemical sales with Great Western Chemical Company in Portland, OR.

In 2001, Richard and a fellow sales person started a new chemical sales company called Sanitech. They soon had well over a million dollars in sales, doing business with major agribusiness companies in Utah, Idaho and Washington State. 

Mr. Ringelstetter is now semi-retired and passionate about bringing EKOShower to market. He enjoys bike riding, hunting, fishing, camping and is an avid Green Bay Packer fan.