John Atherton

Market Strategy & Innovation
Trimble Inc.
John joined Trimble in October 2025 from Accenture (NYSE: ACN), where he spent the last eight years in their global supply chain practice, and was aligned to Accenture’s joint business group with Amazon from 2019. During that time, John held several leadership roles, including geographic market owner for cloud transformations, designer of new innovation & design-thinking programs, GenAI offering development and most recently owned the joint supply chain go-to-market strategy & program with Amazon for their hybrid physical and digital supply chain offering. Beyond Accenture, John has extensive experience in the supply chain domain, with deep expertise in both technology and operations. After starting his career in the container shipping industry, John joined GT Nexus as an early employee, rotating through product management, product marketing, sales, solutions consulting, partners & alliance and general management until that company was acquired by INFOR in 2016. During his 25+ year career, John has advised dozens of Global 2000 clients in supply chain transformation programs such as Adidas, Caterpillar, DHL, Electrolux, Pfizer and many others.
John Atherton