About Martin

Builder.
Operator.Technologist.

My work sits across business building, technology, commercial transformation and operating companies. I am most useful where something complicated needs to become clearer, more capable and commercially usable.

01. The story

A recurring theme:
turn complexity
into something useful.

I tend to work where organisations are complicated, processes are inefficient, technology is underused, or an idea needs turning into something commercially usable.

Across consulting, technology, automation, operating businesses and venture development, the common thread is building practical systems around real problems — not technology for its own sake, and not strategy that stops at a slide deck.

That has naturally led to a role that sits between executive leadership and hands-on building: shaping direction, assembling capability, testing opportunities and turning ideas into operating businesses, products and systems.

02. How I work

Principles before process.

Commercial first

Technology has to solve a real business problem and create a useful outcome.

Build, not just advise

I prefer creating working systems, ventures and operating models rather than stopping at recommendations.

Cross-disciplinary

Strategy, technology, operations, people and commercial execution work best when designed together.

Long-term value

The aim is to create organisations and systems that keep working beyond a single project.

03. Leadership

Group Managing Director.

As Group Managing Director of The Raeburn Group, I oversee strategic direction, business development, technology, venture development and group-level opportunities.

The role is deliberately broad. It means looking across operating businesses and new ventures, identifying where the Group can create value, deciding where shared capabilities should sit, and making sure strategy connects to execution.

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04. Executive timeline

The path to today.

Early career

Commercial operations

Enterprise

Industrial and commercial work

Transformation

Consulting and operating-model change

Technology

Automation and digital systems

Venture building

Business creation and product development

Today

The Raeburn Group

05. Areas of focus

Where I spend my time.

Enterprise technologyAI & automationBusiness transformationVenture developmentIndustrial & commercial servicesCorporate systemsCommercial strategy

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