About Craig
Craig is Automata’s Global Head of Sales, leading our commercial function from our London office. He has a degree in Economics from University of St Andrew and an extensive background in sales and business development.
In a previous life he founded a soft drinks business (stocked in Ocado, Harvey Nichols and Selfridges no less), which kick-started his exposure to and passion for automation as a solution for productivity bottlenecks.
Craig worked on Automata’s first big early deals with the NHS and is now focusing on scaling the company across the world.
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Insights from Craig

How do you ensure that your investment in automation solutions will be future-proofed? We explore in this article

Following the NHS’ collaboration with automation leader, Automata, to accelerate lab automation, Peter Baker, commercial director at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS), and Craig Johnston, diagnostics and genomics lead at Automata, discuss the impact this will have moving forward

Why taking learnings from manufacturing – and taking automation ‘off deck’ – resulted in a 5x increase in one biotech lab’s throughput