Michael Harrop

Current

• Partner at Harrop & Co.

Past

• Marketing rep. at DuPont
• Manufacturing supervisor at Coats

Education

• University of Paisley
• University of Cambridge
• Malvern College

• Scuola Svizzera di Milano

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Connections

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Industry

Design

Michael Harrop’s Summary

Member most social sites as harropmike.
Personal site see http://www.harrop.info

Michael Harrop’s Specialties:

Design, startups, incubation, usability, cost-reduction, bootstrapping.

Michael Harrop’s Experience

• Partner

  Harrop & Co.

  (Investment Management industry)

  September 1979 — Present (30 years 4 months)

  Invent, incubate, design, etc. Advised businesses + start-ups Europe, US, China, Middle East.
  Held CEO or board positions during build-outs, but not really an ops person.

• Marketing rep.

  DuPont

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DD; Chemicals industry)

  1969 — 1980 (11 years )

  Textile fibers marketing EMEA (Kevlar aramid, Nomex para-aramid, Teflon PTFE).
  Industrial films marketing EMEA (Kapton polyimide, Tedlar PVF).
  Know-how in textiles, armor, fashion, dyeing, design, innovation, positioning, modernizing industrial family firms, machinery.

• Manufacturing supervisor

  Coats

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Textiles industry)

  1966 — 1969 (3 years )

  Manufacturing supervision in cotton and silk thread processing - fiber selection, carding, spinning, twisting, color analysis, dyeing, mercerizing, winding, packaging, QA, sewing. Plotted color-space on Scotland's first industrial mainframe computer.
  Italy, Austria, Scotland.

Michael Harrop’s Education

• University of Paisley

  Engineering diploma , Textiles , 1966 — 1967

• University of Cambridge

  MA , Linguistics , 1964 — 1966

• Malvern College

  1958 — 1964

• Scuola Svizzera di Milano

  Primary 1949 — 1953

Additional Information

Michael Harrop’s Interests:

See http://www.harrop.info

Michael Harrop’s Groups:

http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1436/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11690213162&ref=mf

•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    OpenCoffee Paris
•    Association of Virtual Worlds
•    Front End of Innovation
•    New media group
•    GLE
•    Angel Investors
•    DuPont Alumni
•    R1b
•    Cambridge University Alumni Group
•    Swiss Investments & Holding Companies
•    Swiss Business Club
•    Innovative Experience Economy & Authenticity Innovation Experts
•    Valaisans actifs hors canton
•    VS-link
•    Usability and Web 2.0+
•    Malvern College
•    iCamp
•    Ultra Light Startups
•    Suisse Romande Network
•    Kapitall
•    street2start
•    CSR Geneva
•    web escape agents
•    GENEVA EXPATS
•    VENTURE - Companies for Tomorrow

Michael Harrop’s Honors:

See http://www.harrop.info

Michael Harrop’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• getting back in touch