HARROP People

LEGAL

MIKE HARROP

Summary: Mike likes to bring people together around early-stage projects.
Since his teens, he has sold shares in his own startups or incubated other
entrepreneurs (see story). His current interests are new off-line swarming
behaviors, techno-streetsmart nomadic lifestyles, and zero-cost design.
Mike is organizer of the Lake Geneva Region Iron-Butt Meetup.

Brought up in Lucca, Milano, Glasgow and Barcelona, he studied linguistics
and engineering at Cambridge University and West of Scotland University.
While a student, he produced fashions and music for the emerging Carnaby
scene. In the late 1960s, after some years in factory management with Coats,
he moved to Geneva and worked over a decade in DuPont's new products
launch team, notably heading up EMEA marketing of Kevlar for anti-ballistics.
Since leaving DuPont in 1980, he has done startups in the US, Mercosur,
China, EU and Balkans. Mike's been online since 1981, incubated Geneva's
first internet center at the Hilton in 1996, the first T-1 hot-desk Venture Zone
near Geneva airport in 1997, China's first email and search software company,
the Cats & Dogs retail chain, and some others.

Disclosure: Since 2008/9 Mike has been cleaning up a financial mess caused
by two recession-hit startups and extensive litigation, which may impact his
availability during 2010.

WORK FOR

OTHER

1969-1980

Worked for

DuPont

new products team

launchin

aramid

aramid

PTFE

polyimide

PVF

eveloped

dyeing

para-

aramid

fabrics,

open

ing

new

markets

motor-

racing,

military,

worker-

protection

fire

brigades

eveloped quilted

multi-layer

para-

aramid fabrics for motor-racing

clothing,

extend

ing

fire-

protection

times

c. Organised first European Hot-Gas Filtration Symposium in

Düsseldorf,

open

ing

market

for fabric

filtration of pollutant

emissions

asphalt

and

TiO2

plants.

d. Sold first 50 tons para-aramid order (previous max. 5 tons) by

creating

purchasing

club of

industrial laundries to

buy

calender

felts.

Sold first 25 ton aramid order (previous max. 2 tons) by

convincing

Italian

police and

Carabinieri to

hold anti-ballistic

vests in

police

stations

across Italy.

Orders

from

all countries

followed. Many

officers' lives

saved.

f. Worked with

Louis Vuitton

and designer

Clino Castelli

futuristic

luggage

materials

when LV

inaugurated the

Challenge

trophy

for the

America's Cup

runner-up. The

unique

fabric

used a

and 'locked' by

heat-

fusion.

The concept

was

later used for

fused

racing sails.

g. Worked with European Space Agency

ultra-thin

polyimide

film

with

vacuum vapor

deposited gold

coating, used to

wrap

satellites.

h. Worked on aircraft wire-wrapping films with polyimide, and PVF release films for the electronic circuit-board industry.

966-1969

Worked for

Coats

, world's largest textile company, in

their

silk

cotton

thread

manufacturing

mills

Spai

(

Coats

Fabra

)

Scotland

(

Coats

Patons

)

Italy

(

Cucirini Cantoni Coats

)

Germany

Austria

(

Mez A.G. and

Harlander

Coats

)

alvaged

vintage

silk

hank-winders

slow-

process

premium

not-

ree

silk

and

mercerized embroidery

threads

expanding

market for

automated

embroidery

hippie

fashions

ccelerated flow

of 3-D spectrophotometr

for

dye

mixing in high-

pressure

thread-

dyeing,

facilitating

market

for 24-

hour

custom color-

matched thread

delivery.

Worke

's first industr

ial

mainframe

computer to

map

3-D

color-space.

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I have been a systematic and heavy user of internet and videotext for 30 years and have
always posted in a free-speech manner and in my own name. I am relaxed and unparanoid
about privacy and my life is run open source. As part of staying in touch with the latest
software, social, organizational, design and marketing trends, I support new, experimental,
weird, off-the-wall, artsy, minority, political, loony, or disruptive sites, blogs and fora. All
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of context, appears strange. They may also cache versions of my internet sites which were
temporary, experimental, parodic or that were modified aeons ago.

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creatively misused.

Web name: harropmike

Our team is co-ordinated by @harropmike.

Where can we meet you ?

PERSONAL

ugust 20th

1945

Interests

Cercle des Amis du B éjart Ballet Lausanne
Zero cost design

Languages
Fluent: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Slow:

German,

hwytzertütsch,

Catalan