John Henry Group Operations Board
The John Henry Group Operations Board consists of executive shareholders in the business and non-executive directors. Who collectively, are responsible for defining and executing the commercial requirements of the group across its national interests. The Operations Board also oversee business performance across the operations function and across the supporting business divisions.
History and Legacy
Without doubt the longevity, stability and success of the John Henry Group, stems from the focus on our family ethos, which was established by John Henry Snr, who founded our business in 1985. John has always valued, looked after and appreciated his staff and in turn delivered the best, most honest service for his clients.
John celebrated early success with his business, by building relationships with British Telecom (BT) in 1986. His company grew and it wasn’t long before John’s sons Pat, Jim and John Jnr joined the company.
Although John Snr retired in 2008, the business is still family owned and has never forgotten the importance of their family values, ensuring they value people and relationships, both within the business and with their clients.
John Henry Group’s ultimate goal remains to work towards engineering excellence by helping partner clients successfully grow and manage their infrastructure footprints.
The Group’s expertise now allows us to provide a competitive and extremely reliable service with high quality workmanship, project management knowledge.
After enjoying a period of growth, starting in 2015, John Henry Group attracted private investment in 2016 from Growth Capital Partners, to assist with developing and growing the business carefully and exploring new family markets. The Henry family still retain a majority share in the company.
In 2017, John Henry Group opened the new K4 Operations Centre at their head office in Cambridge. A modern air-conditioned building set over four floors where the plans for building tomorrow’s ‘next generation’ telecoms infrastructure will be actioned. The building was named in honour of John Snr, who used the name K4 as a call sign to communicate with his sons on wireless band radio in the early days of the business.
The new building brings together all of our project teams into one central office, supported by the existing ‘Mount’ building, which was fully redesigned and refurbished a few years earlier.
In 2018, John Henry Group released a new business vision called ‘Recharging Our Future’ developing a new business strategy with their investors and delivering core values of Excellence, Forward Thinking and Together which is shared by colleagues, and reflects both the history of the company and their vision for the future.
Vision and Values
Every company needs a set of values by which they conduct business and realise and deliver against corporate principles. At John Henry Group we developed our values with our people over a set of workshops.
Excellence
We do what we say. We do it well. We do it safely.
At John Henry Group Excellence means:
- We deliver our work with commercial acumen, to a high standard and are proud of the quality we provide
- We put safety first in everything we do minimising the environmental and injury risk of the activities we undertake
- We respond promptly and proactively to our clients, communicating openly and honestly with them
- We want our Clients to value the relationships they have with us and the work we deliver for them
Forward Thinking
We’re forward thinking in our approach.
We are ambitious and passionate to find new ways of working. We drive forward our innovation for continued expansion and success. At John Henry Group Forward Thinking means:
- We take a creative approach to problem solving both internally and with our Clients
- We are always challenging the way we work and looking for improved ways of working
- We promote our innovative capability and invest time in exploring new ideas and market opportunities
Together
We care about our customers and colleagues, staying true to our family values.
We support each other, respect one other and encourage each other to achieve. At John Henry Group Together means:
- We listen to each other, we provide encouragement and support
- We share our experiences for the benefit of others, learn from our mistakes and work together to succeed
- We are honest with each other, constructive in our feedback and work collectively to resolve issues
