Andrew Hier
Andrew Hier is a Senior Partner with OMBI, specializing in family and business governance, shareholder relations, and succession issues. He is a facilitator at the Harvard Business School’s Families in Business executive education program, which examines key issues and challenges facing family businesses.
Mr. Hier maintains an active practice of family business consulting within the United States and with families in South America, Asia, and Europe. He is also active in the Family Firm Institute, is a trustee of the Boston-Strasbourg Sister City Association, and serves as an overseer for the DeCordova Museum.
Before advising family owned businesses, Mr. Hier was for 14 years the CEO of Bennett and Company, then one of the largest privately held intimate apparel companies in the world, with offices in four countries and wholly owned or joint venture manufacturing facilities in Asia. Mr. Hier practiced law for the previous 15 years, most recently as a partner of Gaston, Snow, Ely, Bartlett in Boston, advising clients on general business matters and litigation including corporate governance, contracts and joint ventures, employer-employee relations, and shareholder disputes in privately held companies. Mr. Hier was also a law clerk in the United States District Court, Massachusetts and spent a number of years as an Assistant District Attorney specializing in economic crimes in the Suffolk County and Middlesex County, Massachusetts District Attorney’s offices.
Mr. Hier earned his A.B. Degree from Harvard College and his Juris Doctor Degree from Harvard Law School.