John joined Tharsus in 2010 straight from university, to follow a long- held career ambition to work in our sector.
After a further degree in industrial design, he held increasingly senior technical design roles before turning this knowledge to a more customer facing role, ensuring technology and commercial strategies for our customers’ products are perfectly aligned for their success.
He has an MBA from the University of Oxford.
Insight pieces
Insights | Manufacture
Insights | Thought Leadership
Successful scale manufacturing relies on values as much as processes.
Here at Tharsus we have clearly defined and deeply understood values which we live and breathe. Inherent in everything we do, they have enormous impact on our delivery to customers.

Insights | Thought Leadership
Delivering innovation and opportunity for the UK – Martin McCourt
Martin McCourt, former Dyson CEO and now Non-Executive Director here at Tharsus, shares his thinking on the UK’s opportunity to solve big global problems through innovative “tech that matters” and the importance of finding and engaging the next generation of innovators to create it.

Insights | Round table
The Road to Net Zero
In a roundtable discussion held in the lead up to COP26, leaders from the manufacturing industry came together to discuss the key trends that will drive innovation to net zero.

Our people
The people who bring our robotics and automated machines to life