Martin Armstrong is a specialist in Talent. He works with family offices, private equity and venture capital funds advising them on how to optimise the returns that they have on the companies they own through by being better at managing and acquiring Talent.
Martin has over 35 years of experience in the recruiting and the Talent advisory business, working with leading organisations in the financial services and investment sphere. He has helped some of the leading entrepreneurs in the investment business build their businesses into multi billion dollar companies. Martin’s particular area of expertise is producing excessive shareholder returns through the optimisation of people.
He avoids transactional recruiting in favour of a much longer term holistic process ensuring continual outperformance and cultural alignment and the absolute best bench for his clients. Martin also speaks and writes on Talent related issues particularly around, entrepreneurship, intergenerational wealth transfer, and business scaling.
Martin has founded over the years a number of leading Talent and Sports businesses including sportsession.com, skillcapital.com, Justpeople.com, sousoupartners.com amongst many others. Martin is committed to helping people with learning disabilities integrate into the workplace and is a cofounder of teamdomenica.com a leading charity for people with learning disabilities.
As well as his involvement in and commitment to Talent, Martin is also a breeder of thoroughbred racehorses horses (Stormbreaker, Rozalia , Higher Power, Lady Stardust) and Sussex Cattle. Martin and his wife own the most important collection of Oncidium and Cymbidium orchids in the world. He also plays the guitar in a band called S T R E T C H. He is married with four grown-up children.
