Industry Experts
At Rite-Hite, we are lucky to have highly dedicated employees at every level in the company. We take pride in cultivating industry experts in order to make sure your loading dock and in-plant equipment can perform at its safest, securest, most productive, and most efficient way possible. Meet some of our team members!
John Ritter, Vice President of Business Development
John Ritter, Vice President of Business Development, has more than 20 years of experience working with Rite-Hite in a variety of different roles including sales, management, and distribution. His proven leadership skills, professionalism and passion for taking care of the customer have been a strong contribution to the advancement of industrial safety equipment. Through his experience, he has become keenly familiar with the obstacles that affect day-to-day safety, efficiency, and productivity in manufacturing and material handling facilities around the world and has worked to advance machine guarding equipment in his most current role.
Jeff Johnston, Director of Sales
Jeff Johnston, Director of Sales for Arbon Equipment, has more than 20 years of experience in the material handling industry and has extensive experience in addressing safety, security and productivity concerns inside of commercial or industrial facilities. He holds a wealth of knowledge on how to improve business protocols to help our customers’ facilities run at their peak efficiencies.
Aaron Wiegel, Director of Engineering & Product Management
Aaron Wiegel's 20 years of product development at Rite-Hite includes the launch of the Revolution Fan series in 2007 as well as several additional HVLS fans for industrial and commercial applications. His team recently launched the Revolution 25, 75, and 150 HVLS fan series featuring state of the art direct drive motor technology. Two of Aaron's strengths are his understanding of HVLS blade design and his experience locating fans to achieve maximum air flow and comfort. Aaron’s loading dock contributions include the Flex Neck auto dimming dock light, the TS 5000 trailer stand, and the CoolMan 2800 Trailer Fan. Barrier systems, such as railing, impactable curtains, and reciprocating gates, were redefined by RHESG's development of the Barrier Load and Speed Test (BLAST). Aaron played a critical role developing the test fixtures and protocols required to launch the BLAST strategy.
Matt Fleckenstein, Regional Sales Vice President
Having spent the past 20+ years specializing in temperature control, related to refrigerated warehousing and food/pharmaceutical grade manufacturing and distribution centers, Matt is a cold storage industry specialist at Rite-Hite. He is consistently recognized as a trusted resource to identify temperature control solutions to reduce operational costs while increasing product quality, productivity and employee safety. He specializes in protecting the complete cold chain and assisting companies with effective food defense strategies.