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John Lucas

Tharsus Group, Chief Operating Officer

John Lucas is Chief Operating Officer at Tharsus, overseeing the Design, Project Management, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Business Excellence teams.

Before joining Tharsus, John spent more than twenty years as Divisional/Managing Director, President and COO of several businesses in the process engineering and capital goods sector, based in both the UK and USA. He has managed start-ups, supply chain and engineering projects in China, India, Australia, South Africa, South America and Europe.

John has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from the University of Bath and a Post Graduate Fellowship in Systems Management from City University, London. He also spent three years as Senior Industrial Fellow and Director of the Industry Links Unit at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.


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