John is Partner – New Business at HTA and responsible for the practice’s future business pipeline. He works with our team leaders across all our four studios to develop and secure new business relationships and opportunities with clients both existing and new, promoting the best of HTA to attract clients who share our ethos and focus on making great places.
Often the first port of call for new business enquiries, John’s role involves strengthening client relationships and building new ones, identifying new leads and projects for collaboration, refining and presenting the services we can offer, managing and monitoring all resulting procurement, bidding, and tendering activity to ensure these are delivered in a systemised way.
John joined HTA as an architect and has held various project and management roles as the practice as grown. He combines this experience with extensive knowledge of our client base and their business priorities, and his passion for relationship marketing and networking.
John has a particular interest in urban development overseas and in developing countries. He has been involved in HTA’s exploratory activities in UAE and Africa and remains a passionate advocate for the adoption of sustainable Placemaking approaches to project delivery, especially in the sub-Saharan region.
John is a key member of HTA’s Black African Caribbean Collective (BLACC@hta).