Founder, Chief Culture Officer, author, speaker, and Super Bowl Champion Ben Utecht started playing football in 4th grade and continued through his career in the NFL. This resulted in a 20 year career of performing on fields and using communal shower facilities all across the country. In 2008, while playing for an NFL franchise, Utecht contracted a foot fungal infection that was painful and negatively affected his performance. This injury event inspired the idea to create a product that could help solve the issue of foot infections across the world. Utecht secured the US patent for the Shower Sockᵀᴹ and started his production journey with the University of Minnesota Medical Device department. Shortly after, he partnered with founder Mario Nozzarella, a world medical device leader, to further develop the product, and founder Heinrich Von Solms of South Africa, international business leader and designer of the sock, who secured the international patent and trademark for the Shower Sockᵀᴹ, along with developing the manufacturing and chemical application process.