Steve Hater Named Membership Director of Goering Center for Family and Private Business at the University of Cincinnati

Reporting to the president of the Goering Center for Family and Private Business at UC’s College of Business, working with staff and various committees, the membership director needs to be adept at core member liaison, new member development, generating participants for Goering Center — Institute and Forum programs — as well as other periodic sales activities benefiting the center. Besides the ability to do all these things, the membership director has to have a certain amount of knowledge of family and private business, too. Steve Hater has both.

“Steve brings a resounding energy and robust knowledge of the dynamics of family businesses,” says Larry Grypp, president of the Goering Center. “As a former president of Hater Industries, a foundry and machine manufacturing company, Steve has demonstrated top- and bottom-line growth through strategic sales and operational initiatives.

Steve Hater has more than 34 years of experience in all facets of management, entirely in privately held, family-owned businesses, as well as 12 years’ experience as a CEO facilitator and numerous years' experience with boards of directors and advisors. He began his business career with Hater Industries, Inc., in 1974. Hater started as a plant assistant and worked every management position in the company, finally serving as president from 1999 to 2008. He was also a member of Hater Industries’ Board of Directors for 25 years.

Hater has also served on boards of directors or advisors for other family-owned businesses: Caterers of Tampa, Associated Outdoor Clubs, the Trison Company, Fischer Special Manufacturing Company and Levin Associates. In 2004, Hater founded Hater Enterprises, through which he provides coaching and consulting for upper-level company executives.

Hater has been a member of Chief Executive Boards International since 1996. He now serves as the local board representative for the Dayton, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Boards, as well as a national board representative.

“We know that Steve will assist our own Goering Center members as they lead their businesses in these challenging times,” says Grypp.

About the Goering Center
The Goering Center has one of the leading programs in the country, preparing the Next Generation of family business owners to manage the family firm. Our Leadership Development Institute is designed to address the unique challenges faced by those leading a family business.  The Goering Center also maintains an extensive resource library of videos, publications, and texts relating to many of the unique issues faced by family firms. The Goering Center, as part of the University of Cincinnati, also advances research in the area of best practices for family firms, and offers one of the few programs in the country as an undergraduate integral concentration in the area of Family Business/Entrepreneurship.