High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Jenkins Crouch AO (born on 27 May 1933, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian businessman. He is Chairman/CEO of Zip Industries, the Australian manufacturer and distributor of potable boiling and chilled filtered water delivery products. Zip was the first company worldwide to develop small instant boiling water heaters. Those heaters are now widely used throughout Australian offices and in the UK. They are also used by some fifteen Houses of Parliament globally, and in the offices of at least four Heads of State.