Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> August 9, 1999
JON NORTHROP is currently President, Chief Executive Officer, and
Secretary of Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc., a company that
designs, installs and operates advanced waste and wastewater treatment
systems. Before founding Bion Technologies, Inc. (a wholly owned
subsidiary of Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. founded in September
1989), he served in a wide variety of managerial and executive
positions. He was most recently the Executive Director of Davis, Graham
& Stubbs, one of Denver's largest law firms, from 1981 to 1989. Prior to
his law firm experience, Mr. Northrop worked at Samsonite Corporation's
Luggage Division in Denver, Colorado, for over 12 years. His experience
was in all aspects of manufacturing, systems design and implementation,
and planning and finance, ending with three years as the Division's Vice
President, Finance. Mr. Northrop has a bachelors degree in Physics from
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (1965), an M.B.A. in Finance
from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1969), and spent
several years conducting post-graduate research in low energy particle
physics at Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio. Profile
into context. What do you see as your business at BION and what do you
see as your company today?
Mr. Northrop: Bion
