John is the Director of the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre, a new £88m facility located in Glasgow, Scotland. Prior to joining CPI in October 2019, John worked for GSK for over 32 years covering all aspects of the manufacturing supply chain from large-scale fermentation, fine chemicals (both chemical and enzymatic conversions), chemical development and secondary sterile operations (vial and syringe filling). 

In 1997 he moved to GSK House to lead one of the work streams of a global network re-structuring programme. In 2000 he moved to Irvine, Scotland as Head of Development before returning to GSK House to lead the Global Manufacturing Project Management Office (PMO) which included a project for the 2012 London Olympics and to establish a PMO for GSK’s Core Business Services Function (a consolidation of IT, Procurement and Worldwide Real Estate), which he then led as their Head of PMO. In 2017 he returned to Manufacturing to lead a Global Manufacturing Strategy Programme before leaving to join CPI as the Centre’s Director.