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Martin Port is a Yorkshire based entrepreneur. A technology pioneer, Martin founded Masternaut, one of the first UK companies to offer software-as-a-service, with its web-based vehicle tracking solutions. Martin took Masternaut from a small startup in 2002 to become one of the UK’s fastest growing businesses, with places in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
Martin’s entrepreneurial endeavours were recognised in 2008 when he won the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Technology and Communications & in 2010 won IOD Director of the Year.
In November 2009, Martin sold Masternaut to Hub Telecom, a subsidiary of Aeroports de Paris, Europe’s second-largest airport’s operator.
Martin’s latest venture is revolutionising Fleet and Mobile Resource Management. Creating a BigChange to the way organisations manage their customers, employees and assets by improving the Return On Investment for SME and Corporates investing in BigChange technology. BigChange JobWatch 4th generation intelligent telematics giving instant business benefits and improvements for small medium and large companies. Click to visit the BigChange YouTube Channel.
Specialties
An investor in fast-growing technology businesses. Business Management, Change, People, CSR, Sales, Marketing, Operations including Customer Service and most importantly creating Increased Company Value.
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BigChange Puts AGS Pest Control On the Right Track For Business Expansion
AGS, provider of facilities management services to Transport for London (TfL), has completed the implementation of a mobile workforce system from BigChange. The system, which sees field technicians equipped with tablets connected in real time to a control centre, has...
BigChange Delivers 40% Productivity Gain for HSS Groundcare
HSS Groundcare, the only national groundcare hire and maintenance service in the UK, has rolled out new mobile technology that has boosted field engineer productivity by 40 percent. Providing visibility of operations nationwide, the new system supplied by Leeds based...
How does ISO Certification build best practices for services businesses of all sizes?
What defines a quality business? Is it the customer support provided or the quality of the service or product they deliver? Is it how the organisation is run or more about their ability to understand customer needs, harnessing innovative technology into sales and...
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Cutting carbon for all the right reasons
For a while, in the early 2000s, it seemed like every company was planting trees or offsetting its carbon. It was all a ploy to convince consumers they were environmentally conscious when, frankly, they weren’t. The consumers have wised up. Between the Volkswagen...
The tech CEO gives up tech (for a week)
I’m not surprised that so many Silicon Valley technologists have become advocates of the digital detox. The developers behind the likes of Facebook and Google have seen the impact that gamifying apps has had on the average phone user. We are all addicted to our phones...
Am I the only one who has a problem with vaping?
I really want my colleagues to live happy, healthy lives, and will do anything I can to help them on that journey. At Masternaut the business I founded previously, I ran an initiative called Cash for Quitters. I offered my colleagues a cash bonus of £1,250 (and gave...
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