- June 13, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
It was time, thought Megan Doherty, to quit horsing around and join the family business.
Literally.
Doherty was a professional rider based in Indiana, taking show horses through their paces at events around the country, including the Great Lakes Equestrian Festival in Williamsburg each year, a small town a few miles north of Traverse City that hosts one of the biggest equestrian festivals in the country, a competition that lasts for 12 weeks each summer and brings in riders and horses from around the country.
The family business was the F.D. Hayes Electric Co. in Lansing, which was founded by her great-grandfather, Frank Hayes, an electrician and inventor, in 1923.
Doherty rejoined the company in 2014 and took majority ownership two years later. Her husband, Charlie, is a field technician with the company, overseeing data and telecom installations. The company does general electrical contracting but specializes in low-voltage wiring for data and telecom…
