Martin heads up the Barclays Platforms, Partnerships & Data Legal teams, helping the bank create and scale transformational businesses and manage data opportunities. He is a Legal Optimisation advocate and lead for Barclays LawTech Lab. Martin’s formative legal years were spent at Eversheds Sutherland in the Corporate Team, working with VCs, start-ups, scale-ups and Universities.

Over the past decade, Martin has led Legal teams on international expansion projects, the build-out of Tech/BPO Centres and the creation of innovative payment propositions, taking him across the globe.  More recently, Martin led the Barclays UK legal team in the design, authorisation and stand-up of Barclays UK as a new, ring-fenced bank.