His additional service includes time spent as a past governor and chapter vice president of the Recording Academy, for whom he helped inaugurate the local Grammy in the Schools program. He is also a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and the Society for American Music, at whose conferences he has presented his research. After fourteen years of musical performing, recording and songwriting, Professor Hatschek built his own commercial recording studio, Bayshore Studios. Four years later, he joined one of the leading recording studios in the U.S., Music Annex, Inc. During his twelve-years with Music Annex, he worked as recording engineer, producer, project manager, Director of Client Services, and Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He also produced albums, soundtracks for film and television, and the soundtrack for Apple Computer's first CD-ROM. He led Music Annex's diversification efforts from traditional recording services into CD and tape duplication and digital audio post production. During this same time, Music Annex grew from 10 to 75 employees with multi-million dollar annual revenues.