About Timothy Houghton

BSME 1968, UMR
MBA 1978, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
OGS Member 

After being honorably discharged from the Army in 1970, Tim worked in the packaging industry, specializing in beverage containers. He started at American Can Co. in St. Louis and then moved to Schlitz Container Corp. in Tampa and Milwaukee, assuming the positions of plant engineering manager and then production manager at the Milwaukee Can Plant. Timothy joined Anheuser-Busch in 1980, as director of engineering of their wholly owned container manufacturing company, Metal Container Corp. He was promoted to plant manager, Jacksonville, Fla., and eventually promoted to vice president and general manager of Metal Containe1r Corp. in charge of nine plants and 1500 employees including operations, engineering, quality and human resources. In 1990 he formed his  own company. He purchased Hutchison Foundry Products—a 55-year-old manufacturer of precision aluminum die cast parts for the electric motor industry. After having grown the sales and profitability, he sold the company in 1997 to a mid-sized holding company headquartered in Cleveland and retired as president in November, 2000. Tim currently keeps busy as Chairman of the Saint Louis Private Fund. This Fund invests in growing small and medium size companies located in the St. Louis region.