MUST READ BIO - Martin is a senior executive with extensive leadership and broad international experience with public and private growth companies and as an M&A advisor. Of his start-ups, three went public via IPO’s (2 NYSE, 1 NASDAQ), and he completed over 100 mergers/acquisitions – most of which were acquired by public companies. A business builder experienced with most aspects of company operations, including logistics, purchasing, product management, marketing, business development and finance, he is also an experienced negotiator.
Martin is also CEO and majority shareholder of E-Waste Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: EWSI) and previously founder and CEO of GEARRS, Global Electronics Recovery, and Encompass all of which were in the e-Waste and e-Reverse logistics industry. EWSI is in the electronics reverse logistics and e-waste recycling field and it targeted to professionalize the fragmented industry. He is also non-executive director of CoroWare, a publicly traded robotics and software company (OTCQB: COWI), and is on the board of the TransAtlantic Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
At Encompass he negotiated the acquisition of nearly $100 M worth of complementary companies in the e -reverse logistics field,including CyberTest, Pacific Magtron and Vance Baldwin Electronics. With his M&A practice he drove the European growth of clients, including $8B Corporate Express, by ,sourcing and executing over $1B in acquisition transactions over 5 years. He founded Business Superstores, an office products company in London and merged it with what became the largest office products group in Europe, now Staples. He was a founding management team member of computer & networking firm Businessland, which grew to $1.5B and a NYSE listing in record time. Earlier, he helped build one of the world's premier retailers, the Gap Stores, from a few stores to a $3B NYSE company. He launched his career in the high-tech wastewater industry with Aqueonics, in Silicon Valley. Previously listed in reference works such as Barons 500, and Who’s Who of the World, Martin has also been a speaker at industry conferences, and a guest columnist for trade publications.
