Martin spent 30 years with UK law enforcement up until October 2010 spending his final 7 years as the Head of Cocaine Intelligence for HM Customs and the UK’s Serious Crime Agency (now National Crime Agency). Most of that time was spent in a range of operational and intelligence roles. He was responsible for drugs intelligence and the co-ordination of various organised crime control strategy programmes, including UK and European threat assessments. His career included being based in Miami, Florida, as the UK Drug Liaison officer.
Martin moved on to become the founder of Harod, which, for the past 10 years, has been involved in the private sector investigating commercial fraud, corruption and asset tracing work. In the past 5 years, Harod investigators and this technology has helped identify over USD 2 billion of hidden assets.
Harod has also developed an extensive sport crime portfolio. Martin was engaged as the Chief Investigator into the Russian doping scandals at the Sochi Olympic Games and corruption enquiries within International Weightlifting and International Boxing.
He has an MSc in International Criminal Justice degree and is a member of the FBI Leadership Development Executive Program. He has been awarded the US International Narcotics Award of Honor.
