An accomplished author, screenwriter, director, producer and two-time-Emmy-nominated actor, along with well-earned credentials as an entrepreneur and humanitarian, John Ratzenberger is known to international audiences as the host and producer of the hit Travel Channel show, John Ratzenberger’s Made in America, the know-it-all postman Cliff Clavin on Cheers, and as the only actor to voice a character in every film from the Oscar-winning Pixar animation team. 

John’s website, www.ratzenberger.com, is poised to become a key source of business advice and resources for entrepreneurs and industry veterans, as well as the leading destination for business listings and shopping links to products that are made right here in America. 

John’s new non-profit organization, Nuts, Bolts and Thingamajigs Foundation (www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org), is charged with reviving the manual arts and promoting industry to children across America. John is an advocate of American invention and ingenuity, which he discusses in his recent book We’ve Got it Made in America: A Common Man’s Salute to an Uncommon Country.

As National Walk Chairman for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, John has helped raise over $100 million. John has earned the “Father of the Year” award from the Father’s Day Council of America and received the Outstanding Role Model award from the American Diabetes Association. Among other charitable endeavors, he was the first and only person to row a boat nonstop for more than 16 hours and 45 miles around Vashon Island in Washington to raise funds and awareness for the Special Olympics.

JOHN RATZENBERGER

Art Leroldi