Willard “Bill” E. Imhoff III, President and CEO
Bill Imhoff founded Intertech Flooring in Austin in 1988. Since then, he has grown the company from its original 12 employees to more than 150 employees with locations in Austin, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley.

Prior to forming Intertech, Bill gained extensive experience in the flooring distribution business with LDBrinkman and with a national commercial flooring contracting firm. He graduated with a bachelor's in marketing, and a minor in business law, from The University of Texas at Austin. He is widely regarded as one of the leading forces in the region's commercial flooring industry.

Bill and Intertech Flooring have been recognized with numerous awards over the company’s 20-year history. In 2007, Ernst & Young named him Entrepreneur of the Year for Community Impact in the Austin Region, after being a finalist in 1996. His leadership in environmentally conscious flooring was recognized with the Austin Business Journal’s Green Business of the Year award in 2008. And in 2002, Intertech was named a finalist in the Ethics in Business Awards given by St. Edward's University and the Samaritan Center.

In 1997, the International Facility Managers Association named him Associate of the Year. The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) recognized him for his outstanding commitment to construction craft training in 1996, and in 1997 named him Associate of the Year for AGC's Austin Chapter. A longtime supporter of WorkSource, The Capital Area WorkForce Board, Bill has served as board chairman since 2006. In addition, he chaired the Construction Sector of Austin @ Work in 1999; served on the Construction Steering Committee of the Capitol Area Training Foundation, and the North San Antonio Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors; and is a member of the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, Financial Executives Institute, Entrepreneurs Institute, Real Estate Council of Austin and International Facility Management Institute.

Bill’s entrepreneurial vision has played a key part in Intertech’s continued success. In 1992, Intertech was a founding member of StarNet flooring cooperative, providing Intertech clients with national buying power. In 2004, the company acquired the Austin and San Antonio commercial flooring, installation and maintenance business of The Invironmentalists, merging those operations into Intertech's existing locations in Austin and San Antonio. To accommodate the company’s ongoing growth, Intertech relocated in 2006 to a larger Austin facility complete with 2,000-sq.ft. showroom. And in 2007, he expanded again with the opening of a Mission, Texas, office to serve the Rio Grande Valley. His long-held interest in workforce development led to the creation in 1991 of Intertech’s Apprenticeship Program for Certified Flooring Mechanics. In 2003, the program was selected as the core curriculum for an Austin Community College two-year associate degree program, a first in the flooring industry. In San Antonio, it is administered through St. Phillips College. Intertech also funds a University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) interior design endowment, the first of its kind at the university. The funds are used to send UTSA design students to the prestigious NeoCon® World's Trade Fair held each summer in Chicago.

Bill’s first pride and joy before his business is his family: wife Sylvia, a practicing attorney, and three children, Grant, Blake and Sydney. The couple traveled to Russia several times in 2000 to adopt two toddlers out of Moscow orphanages. 

Carl Schneider, Chief Financial Officer
Carl Schneider joined Intertech Flooring as controller in 1994, and since then has helped fiscally guide the company through fast-paced growth and expansion. In 2006 he was named vice president of finance in 2006 and in October 2009, was promoted to chief financial officer.

A graduate of The University of Dayton with a bachelor’s in accounting, Carl began his career with Arthur Anderson & Co. in its Indianapolis office, where he conducted independent audits and management consulting services. After a two-year tour of duty in the Army, he joined National Enterprises Inc. in its internal audit department. Within two years, he headed up the department, overseeing the audit operations of the company’s eastern region. In 1973, Carl was promoted to controller and vice president of finance for NRC, Inc. and relocated to Austin. In 1990, he joined Lago Vista Inc. as vice president of finance, a position he held until joining Intertech.

Scott Richter, Vice President of Rio Grande Valley Operations
Scott Richter was named manager of Intertech Flooring’s Rio Grande Valley location in July 2007 and promoted to vice president of Rio Grande Valley operations in October 2009.

Richter joined Intertech as a flooring installer and foreman on large projects in 1992, the year Intertech opened its San Antonio location. Three years later, in 1995, he was promoted to project manager in Intertech’s San Antonio office. There, he led teams on numerous projects including Foley’s Department Stores, Circuit City, Dell Computer, Enron, U.S. Attorney General’s Office, Motorola, USAA Bank Services, South Texas Regional Blood & Tissue Center, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, Citizens Medical Center, St. Mary’s University, and Baptist Health System. Recent projects in the Rio Grande Valley include The University of Texas Pan American, South Texas College, The University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College and Texas A&M Agricultural Experiment Station.

Richter began developing a career in the commercial flooring industry by attending a two-year apprenticeship at Houston Community College in 1985. Following completion of the program, Richter worked as a field estimator for four years with Carpet Resources.

Richter’s expertise in commercial flooring installation and product knowledge has earned him one Excellence in Construction Award from the South Texas Chapter of Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) for his work on the Frost Bank (at DeZavala) project, and a second Excellence in Construction Award for his work on the World Savings & Loan Association project.

Bill Embrey, Project Manager/Director of Access Flooring
Bill Embrey joined Intertech Flooring in 1992. Bill established Intertech’s Access Flooring department, which has achieved year-over-year growth due in large part to his extensive product knowledge and 32 years’ experience in the flooring industry. His responsibilities include selling, ordering, coordinating and overseeing access flooring installations. He also is proficient in carpet and resilient flooring products and installation.

Prior to joining Intertech, Bill owned and operated a company which installed computer rooms in 20-plus states. He has installed access flooring in such notable buildings as the Pentagon, US Capital, FBI and CIA headquarters, and Los Alamos Labs and White Sands Missile Range. Bill’s projects include Motorola, Advanced Micro Devices, 3M and USAA.

An instructor in Intertech’s Apprenticeship Program, Bill is an active member of the Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated General Contractors and International Facility Management Association.

Stacy Mueller, Director of Labor, Safety and Training;
Austin, RGV, SA
Stacy Mueller joined Intertech Flooring in June 2008 as director of training and safety for the company’s three locations. In the newly created position, Stacy will oversee Intertech’s acclaimed apprenticeship program as well as employee development and safety programs. For the past three years, Stacy has been project manager with Sta-Mar Construction where he supervised day-to-day operations of multiple residential construction projects. For the previous six years, he was operations manager and safety director with Aggregate Haulers, a self-insured trucking company running more than 800 commercial sand/gravel trucks. In addition, for nine years, Stacy was a K-9 patrol sergeant and narcotics officers with the El Campo Police Department.

Mark J. Garza, Project Manager - Hard Tile Division
Mark Garza joined Intertech Flooring as project manager of the company’s hard tile division in November 2008. Based in Intertech’s Rio Grande Valley location, he works with clients in the Valley, San Antonio and Austin regions.

Garza has 11 years’ experience in the flooring industry. From 1994 -1999, he worked for Justin’s Ceramic Tile where his responsibilities included sales, brokering, accounting, management and ceramic tile import/export. He also has three years experience in sales and management with Alfredo’s Tile & Stone, managing the Corpus Christi branch, and one year as a commercial sales representative for CRT Flooring Concepts in McAllen.

Garza attended The University of Texas – Pan American and South Texas College, where he received an associate’s degree in language arts in 2003 with a concentration in American sign language.

Terrance Prashad, Operations Manager-Maintenance & Reclamation; Austin RGV, SA
Terrance Prashad joined Intertech Flooring in 2006 as a material handler in the warehouse. There he worked with the warehouse manager to computerize the inventory stocking and tracking system. In 2007 he was promoted to operations manager of the maintenance department where he manages the day-to-operations of this department for the Austin division.

Chris Lewis, Estimating