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Norman “Chip” Harpster '73 joined Millennium Cell, Inc., a year ago as vice president for finance and administration and CFO. A research and development group studying alternatives to today's fossil fuels, the company has developed a low cost, highly efficient, non-polluting alternative energy process using hydrogen. Millennium Cell, established in 1998, is just beginning to make the transition from a developmental to a fully commercial operation.
For the previous 25 years, Harpster worked for Air Products and Chemicals in a variety of financial positions.
Harpster says his current role is not so different from that at Air Products. “A lot of what I did at Air Products was to develop new business, going into new countries with new products,” he says. “Now I can really focus on the developmental aspects. Whereas we had 750 folks in the financial operation at Air Products, here we have 10, and their duties include many other administrative functions. It's a lot more fun.”
An economics graduate with an M.B.A. from University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Harpster says, “Lafayette exposed me to a great deal of diversity of thought, and taught me to think.”
