Primary Job Title Board Member Primary Organization 
HSE - Health and Safety Executive
Location Rossett, Wrexham, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Martyn Thomas is an independent consultant systems engineer and non-executive director. He is an internationally recognised expert in safety-critical or business-critical, software intensive systems, software engineering, and cybersecurity. He has been instructed as an expert witness in complex, high-value litigations in Europe and Australia.
Martyn works extensively with universities and Government: he is a non-executive director of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education (OIAHE), a member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Council (DSAC), and Visiting Professor in Software Engineering at the Universities of Oxford, Aberystwyth and Bristol. He has given oral evidence to several UK Parliamentary Committees in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and advised the National Crime Agency and several Government Departments.
In 1983 he founded Praxis, a software engineering company, to exploit modern software development methods. In 1986 Praxis became the first independent systems house to achieve BS 5750 (ISO 9001) quality certification for all its activities. Praxis became internationally recognised as a leader in the use of rigorous software engineering, including mathematically formal methods for developing and assuring software with very high dependability.
In December 1992, he sold Praxis to Touche Ross (later Deloitte and Touche), an international firm of accountants and management consultants, and Martyn became a Deloitte & Touche partner, with world-wide responsibilities for advanced software engineering. He left Deloitte Consulting in 1998 to return to working for himself.
Martyn Thomas is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), which is the UK’s National Academy for Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).
Martyn has been appointed as the first IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College (www.gresham.ac.uk) for three years from August 2015 to 31 July 2018.
