Before becoming Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University, Martin was Director of the Digital Transformation and Open Innovation at the Health Service Executive (HSE), helping enable the digital transformation of Ireland’s health service. Martin also served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the HSE. Martin has  held other positions including Senior Vice President and group head for Global Digital Practice at Mastercard and Vice President at at Intel Corporation and Director/GM of Intel Labs Europe, Intel’s network of more than 50 research labs.

Martin is the co-founder of IVI, and the author of eight books on technology management for value, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland, the British Computer Society and, the Irish Computer Society. He was previously a visiting scholar at MIT Sloan Centre for Information Systems Research and a visiting research fellow at the CERN Open Lab in Geneva. He was the inaugural winner of the Engineers Ireland Innovation engineer of the year in 2006 and was jointly awarded European Chief Technology Officer of the year for 2015-2016.