Martin is a seasoned executive in construction and consulting, primarily for the offshore oil & gas, and offshore wind industries.

His technical background is geotechnical drilling – both sonic and conventional – as well as pile driving, where he was looking at the soil-pile interface during driving. He was a visiting lecturer on pile driving and pile testing at ESITC-Caen University.

He co-founded and managed a number of successful companies. Before joining the Sonic Drilling Institute, he was Chief Geo at a company developing a deep-water seabed-based geotechnical sonic rig, where he was in particular looking after the quality of the collected geotechnical samples and data, the sonic drilling processes, as well as other aspects of the business such as strategy and digitalization.