Mike Harris

摘要

The founder of Egg and First Direct has built two businesses around the philosophy of improving the retail banking customer experience. He tells Michelle Price how he intends to continue to change the face of the web. Meeting Mike Harris, it is easy to understand why the serial entrepreneur believes that personal enthusiasm is such a powerful business tool: it is quite evidently - as Mr Harris himself believes - his strongest quality. "I can embroil people in my own enthusiasm: if I find an idea I like, I can get it funded - it doesn't matter what it is," he says matter-of-factly. This rare ability (coupled, it is clear, with dogged perseverance) has enabled Mr Harris to found and build two of the retail banking industry's most pioneering enterprises the first telephone bank, First Direct, and the first internet-only bank, Egg.