John has over 30 years’ experience in New Product Introduction, Project and Business Development and Project Delivery, gained in the Marine, Aerospace, Defence, Energy and Nuclear sectors.
Before joining Blue Energy, he served as CTO in Assystem and HiiROC, Programme Director and Chief Engineer in Rolls-Royce and founding Technical Director in Intelligent Energy and KAD Nuclear, the joint venture between KBR, Assystem and Doosan Babcock.
In these roles, he focused on building effective teams and collaborative relationships, delivering complex and novel projects using systems engineering techniques, and delivering technical assurance and governance, always with a commercial and customer focus.
He has an honours degree in aeronautical engineering, is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Member of the International Council on Systems Engineering.