David Thornton joined the Board in October 2021.
David was raised in Penshurst and Hamilton and is the Managing Director of Thornton Engineering Australia Pty Ltd. David’s father founded the business in 1975 as a Penshurst based engineering workshop servicing rural industries. Since moving the business to Geelong in 2000, it has grown to be a market leader in structural steel, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, heavy wall pipe, stress relieving and heavy plate fabrication. The company supplies nationally and internationally to some of Australia’s largest companies and employs over 180 staff, including 15 full time staff at the original workshop in Penshurst.
David is an Old Collegian (1990), is married with four children and has a
strong community focus, as an active member of Apex Geelong, coaching junior football and an avid member of a cycling group that he founded.
