Martin has over 25 years of experience working on ICT deployment, innovation, research and development, policy, regulation, and legislation. He is currently a consultant and lead technical expert and senior manager with the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) Africa Hub.

He’s leading the coordination of several key projects in Africa, including the African Union (AU)-CSIRT/CERT Project to secure Africa’s digital infrastructure, AU-GFCE Collaboration Project to enhance Cyber Capacity Building (CCB) and Cyber Resilience across all 55 Africa Union member states; and GFCE/KPMG World Bank funded project on Enhancing Africa Cooperation on Cybersecurity Resilience, through establishment of African Centre for Coordination and Research in Cybersecurity (ACCRC) - Togo. Before joining the GFCE, he was the Head of the Technical Support & Consultancy (TSC) Division at the Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation (CTO) in the UK for seven 7 years. He was responsible for managing the delivery of ICT technical support and development assistance to the Commonwealth (which consists of 56 member countries) and beyond.

Before joining the CTO, he worked as a Senior Researcher & Technical Lead with British Telecommunications (BT) for 10 years. While at BT he worked on various major projects including BT 21st Century Next Generation Network, developing ICT security solutions, policy, and strategies for BT’s lines of business, including cutting-edge research on Future Internet Architecture, and the development of a Global Best Practice framework for mitigating Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) on the Internet.

Martin has been involved in various ICT projects mainly in Europe, the US, the Caribbean, Asia Pacific, and extensively in Africa. He is also a technical expert for the European Commission (EC), World Bank, UN, ITU, and the GFCE. He has led and delivered several national strategies in Cybersecurity, Broadband, Telecommunication Regulation, and Digital Transformation for several organisations in various countries.

He has a PhD in Communications Engineering and holds several patents. He is an alumni of Egerton University (KE), Nairobi University (KE), Bristol University (UK), University of Aberdeen (UK), Cambridge University, Judge Business School (UK), and Harvard Kennedy School (USA).