John Thornton
Principal Consultant, CleanFuture
John A. Thornton is President and Principal Consultant for CleanFuture http://cleanfuture.us , a consulting firm providing business and technical expertise at the convergence of energy, mobility, sustainability and the Smart Grid.
Prior to founding CleanFuture, John has experience in start-up ventures as Vice President of Manufacturing & Supply Chain for Porteon Electric Vehicles http://www.porteon.net , a start-up headquartered in Portland, Oregon USA. Porteon designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes electric vehicles; creating mobility solutions that are clean, energy efficient, economical, and truly sustainable.
John Thornton served as Porteon's Vice President of Manufacturing & Supply Chain. In addition to leading start-up operations and facilitating Porteon's product development process, John is responsible for a host of supplemental activities inherent in a start-up product launch.
John has over 20 years experience in global procurement and strategic sourcing, supply chain, product development, product management, product strategy and supplier development. Prior to joining Porteon, John spent 11 years playing key roles in the launch of electric vehicles and related technologies for NACCO Materials Handling Group, Inc. http://www.nmhg.com , a $2.7 billion subsidiary of NACCO Industries, producer of Hyster® http://www.hyster.com and Yale® http://www.yale.com lift trucks. He has directed cross-functional teams in the development, launch and introduction of new products and processes on a global scale.
John earned a B.S. degree in Business / Operations Management from Oregon State University, and an M.B.A. from Portland State University.
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3 contactsCleanFuture offers business consulting focused on solutions for sustainability.
http://www.CleanFuture.us
CleanFuture focuses on applying product development, supply chain, sustainability principles or technologies with clients ranging from established firms to new ventures to make a positive social impact on the world.
CleanFuture works in these core areas:
Integrating Product Development and Supply Chains
By incorporating supply chain and process decisions with life-cycle design criteria early in the development process, programs can more successfully achieve their goals including time, cost, quality and lifecycle impacts. CleanFuture can work with your team to condense design/development process cycle time while improving development and operating results.
Ecologically Sustainable Design for Products and Supply Chains
By applying sustainability principles to the early stages of product development and engineering, CleanFuture can work with your organization to deploy more sustainable products, processes, and services.
Clean Energy and Technology Development
CleanFuture provides expertise at the convergence of energy, mobility, sustainability and the Smart Grid.
CleanFuture customers include cleantech companies, electric vehicle companies, electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) companies developing EV charging infrastructure, battery system integrators, utilities, policy makers, green building professionals and sustainable communities.
2007 - 2009