Martin Blackburn is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Europe Middle East and Africa for EDS, the leading global technology services company. Martin sits on EDS’s EMEA board. Prior to EDS Martin spent 10 years at Logica where he held a number of roles, joining the operational board as CEO of the Global Outsourcing Business.

This business encompassed 10,000 staff across 18 countries and included the company’s most complex programmes.

Martin’s career has been involved primarily in:  the “turnaround” of problem business units, projects and customers; transformation and the building of new enterprises; M&A and integration activities. At the core of these activities has been:  strategic insight, leadership, diagnosis, formulation of change programmes; and execution.

As non-exec board member of sales-i Martin works closely with the founding partners, Paul and Kevin, using his varied industry experience to advise, overlook and assist in the implementation of the company’s worldwide sales and marketing expansion endeavors.