who is napkin innovations?
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Napkin Innovations, L.L.C. was created in 2009 by Matthias Bollmus and John Schlick with the purpose to invent, design and market unique consumer-focused products. The company’s strength lies in its founders’ ability to identify unique consumer products, create working models, execute a marketing analysis and present these products and ideas to potential investors.
Each owner of Napkin Innovations brings a unique set of complementary skills to the company.
Matthias currently works as an executive at a Milwaukee-area non-profit organization. Previously he was employed as a full-time faculty member at a local University for eight years where he primarily taught strategy, finance and accounting classes. Before that, he worked for five years for a national mortgage company as Director of Wholesale Services and Manager of Secondary Marketing. He has extensively traveled, including 42 of the states and 16 countries on three continents. Matthias holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Finance, an MBA with a Finance emphasis from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in addition to three undergraduate degrees.
John is the owner of Business Information Design, a database software development firm, as well as Schlick Cycles, builder of unique bicycles. John holds several design patents and is familiar with engineering and production in Asia. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a BBA in Finance. Since school John acquired varied skills working in the home equity loan call center, the marketing departments of Security Bank and developing various databases while employed at Midwest Airlines along with heading up the website redesign team and being part of the team that started Midwest’s E-Business department.