John Thornton is the Head of Go-to-Market Acceleration, Portfolio Support Group at Percheron Capital. Mr. Thornton leads the firm’s efforts to accelerate organic growth across the portfolio, partnering with management teams to strengthen commercial strategy, enhance customer acquisition and retention, and build scalable marketing and sales engines.
Prior to Percheron, Mr. Thornton was Chief Marketing Officer at Groundworks where he built a national marketing platform that unified over twenty brands and established the company as a category leader in residential services. Under his leadership, Groundworks scaled rapidly through a combination of leading organic growth, operational integration, and data-driven customer acquisition. Prior to Groundworks, Mr. Thornton was Vice President of Growth Marketing at Cars.com (NYSE: CARS). Prior to Cars.com, Mr. Thornton held senior marketing leadership roles at RentPath (now part of Redfin) and Google where he managed growth and client strategy for services businesses.
Mr. Thornton received an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia.