
Invent, design, incubate
Geneva Area, Switzerland

Invent, design, incubate
Geneva Area, Switzerland
Member most social sites as harropmike.
Personal site see http://www.harrop.info
Design, startups, incubation, usability, cost-reduction, bootstrapping.
(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.
(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.
(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.
Engineering diploma , Textiles , 1966 — 1967
MA , Linguistics , 1964 — 1966
1958 — 1964
Primary 1949 — 1953
See http://www.harrop.info
http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1436/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11690213162&ref=mf
See http://www.harrop.info