Meet Travis Ganser - President & Owner
I was raised by loving parents and began working for my father’s Madison based business, Ganser Home Improvement, at a young age. My first job at the family business was cleaning toilets. I later moved on to washing the trucks; keeping the warehouse; installing roofing and siding; selling projects; and finally on to running and now owning the company. With my dad as my role model, I now pride myself in following what works from wise teachers and dumping what does not work from the unwise. If it seems that it cannot be done, I love to find a way to make it happen. As Dad would always say, “Can’t is not a word.”
As a young lad, you may have seen me defending people by fist-fighting bullies. A coward can say that they are peaceful by not fighting the bully, but are they really at peace? I know that it is better to fight and be wounded, than not to fight, and continue to be afraid of the bully while claiming to be “peaceful”. It has been said that I have a short fuse, a big heart and an even bigger belly. So, when I am invited out to lunch, I won’t pass up the opportunity.
I am madly in love with my beautiful wife Holly. We have six wonderful and lively children. In today’s society, people ask if we had all six children together. I tell them that I had three kids with my wife, then my wife and I had an affair after a few years of marriage, and had three more children.
Besides having a passion for doing my best and trusting God with the rest, I enjoy traveling with my kids to historical destinations; pushing for tastier culinary adventures in some obscure greasy spoon; collecting “rap-free” music from the early 1930s to today; witnessing to others about what God has done for me--despite my sometimes unloving ways; provoking lukewarm people; enjoying apple pie with my grandma Rita; and pretending that I am “Charles Ingalls” from the “Little House on the Prairie” series with my children.
I love my employees like family and expect the same from them. At Ganser Company we believe that if our employees are whole spiritually, mentally, bodily, and have a “whatever it takes” mentality, then they will be healthy professionals and care deeply for our customers.
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