Tributes paid to Hydro, Inc.’s president and founder.
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Hydro, Inc. has announced the passing of its president and founder, George F. Harris, on December 20th, 2021.
Born in Chicago in 1941, Harris got here from humble beginnings, working as a waiter and a taxi driver. He attended the University of Illinois at Champaign and graduated with a Bachelor of Science diploma in Engineering. After commencement, he worked at several main pump firms as an application engineer and regional manager.
In 1969, Harris was one of the four engineers who founded Hydro, Inc. with the mission of offering engineering services to the pump aftermarket business. From the start, Harris believed in enhancing the reliability and performance of pumps and inspiring innovation. He was later appointed as president of Hydro.
Hydro started with a single shop in Chicago; underneath Harris’s management and vision Hydro turned the most important impartial aftermarket pump firm on the earth. Today, Hydro stands proud with 15 service centres in 9 nations.
Harris was instrumental in defining the tradition of Hydro: unbiased, engineering- and innovation-focused, and devoted to the shopper. He helped develop applications for buyer training in pump processes, believing that the data of the means to safely preserve and operate pumps was something that ought to be shared with everybody. He spearheaded many innovations in the finest way pumps are serviced, using state-of-the-art expertise to re-engineer pumps for max efficiency.
Harris is survived by his wife of fifty six years, Rita, who he met while at the University of Illinois. She later turned vice president of Hydro, and they labored side-by-side to make the company preeminent in the business. Their management was characterised by a special dedication to their workers, who they treated like household. They inspired all service centres to honour Hydro’s staff with month-to-month worker celebrations and an annual Employee Appreciation Week. As he as quickly as mentioned: “Hydro became the corporate it did due to the commitment of our folks – machinists, mechanics, engineers, administrative and gross sales employees – who all share a pivotal position in serving our prospects.”
The culture of care and loyalty nurtured by the Harrises inspired admiration and esteem in all of Hydro’s workers, a lot of whom have labored at Hydro for more than 20 years. Harris was additionally well-respected by his friends within the pump business. In 2014, he was elected as president of the Hydraulic Institute, the most important association of pump industry producers in North America. In 2015, Europump awarded him its President’s Silver Award in recognition of his valuable contributions to the pump trade.
Bob Jennings, Corporate Trainer, pays a personal tribute:
“I started with HydroAire in 1976 and rapidly discovered that George Harris was the consummate protagonist who always expected greater than folks have been prepared to provide. As an employee, I discovered quickly that half-hearted measures were unacceptable and an perspective of ‘good enough” was by no means tolerated. To suppose that he took a rag-tag group of 5 street-wise salesmen and turned the corporate into a world group with 19 facilities worldwide is a tremendous accomplishment. It took onerous work, lengthy hours, a “never say never” mindset, and teamwork to develop the corporate as he did. He wished to be the best, he needed the company to be one of the best, and he wanted every of his employees to be their best.
George was a gifted individual who had the uncanny capability to “see over the horizon” and will glimpse the future wants of the industry lengthy before others had digested final week’s changes.
There was also a aspect of George that most people by no means had the opportunity to see: As tenacious a businessman as he was, he was equally beneficiant and caring to these in the “Hydro Family.” George and Rita all the time treated their staff as “adopted sons and daughters” they usually personally bore the burden of figuring out that their enterprise decisions not only affect the company however the well-being and security of their workers and their households as well.
George shall be deeply missed, but his legacy will reside on. He hired what he thought of the “best of breed” and those that shared his imaginative and prescient for the future, and the company is saturated with like-minded people who will proceed to develop the company well into the future.”
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