Rich has spent most of his career in the printing and publishing industry - both the traditional “ink on paper” and in the online publishing environment. He spent his childhood in the farming and commercial fishing communities on Lake Erie in northwestern Ohio, finished high school in the small west central Ohio town of Sidney and his undergraduate years at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. Rich went on to graduate school at Miami University in Oxford near Cincinnati after which it was off to northeastern Ohio where he and his wife started a family. In 1996, work opportunities moved them to northern Cincinnati where they currently reside.