# Martin Garratt

> Martin Garratt is a British sustainability and smart cities adviser based in the Greater Cambridge area. He co-founded Cambridge Cleantech with Hugh Parnell in 2011 and served as its founding CEO before handing over to Sam Goodall in 2023. His career includes town planning, environmental work at IBM, city centre management in Nottingham, governmental liaison at Boots and leadership of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. His cleantech work connected startups with corporate buyers, investors, researchers and international partners.

- **Role:** Freelance adviser in sustainability and smart cities solutions (public LinkedIn profile)
- **Organizations:** Cambridge Cleantech (co-founder and former CEO), Oxfordshire Greentech (former executive director), Greater Cambridge Partnership (former leader), IBM (former regional environmental manager), Boots the Chemists (former governmental liaison roles), Royal Town Planning Institute (membership recorded in 2020 biography)
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** Honours degree in Town and Country Planning; Bachelor of Planning with an environmental focus, University of Manchester
- **Known for:** Co-founded Cambridge Cleantech in 2011 and led it through its first twelve years., The organisation’s 2023 handover announcement reported more than 200 events and 8,000 attendees during the founding leadership period., The same announcement reported 20 pilot contracts and £20 million in investment through corporate-startup introductions; these are organisational results, not personal investments.

## Career timeline

- **—** — Trained in town planning at the University of Manchester; worked at IBM, including environmental management in the greater South East.
- **—** — Helped establish a city centre management scheme in Nottingham and subsequently worked for Boots.
- **Before 2011** — Led the Greater Cambridge Partnership for approximately ten years.
- **2011** — Co-founded Cambridge Cleantech with Hugh Parnell and became its founding CEO.
- **2012** — Spoke at the Transatlantic Business Forum about trade missions and international cleantech collaboration.
- **2019** — Cambridge Cleantech helped establish its sister network, Oxfordshire Greentech.
- **2020** — Served as a Young Green Tech competition judge.
- **2021** — Led Cambridge Cleantech during its tenth-anniversary programme.
- **2023** — Handed the CEO role to Sam Goodall; later programmes listed Garratt as Founder and Executive Adviser.
- **2024-04-30** — Resigned as a director of Cambridge Cleantech Limited, according to Companies House.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Cambridge Cleantech in 2011 and led it through its first twelve years.
- The organisation’s 2023 handover announcement reported more than 200 events and 8,000 attendees during the founding leadership period.
- The same announcement reported 20 pilot contracts and £20 million in investment through corporate-startup introductions; these are organisational results, not personal investments.
- Helped extend the Cambridge network through Oxfordshire Greentech, established in 2019.
- Included in Cambridge News & Media’s 2011 list of influential business people, reproduced by Cambridge Network in 2017.

## Latest updates

- **2024-04** — Companies House records the end of his Cambridge Cleantech Limited directorship on 30 April 2024.
- **2023-10** — Listed as Founder and Executive Advisor of Cambridge Cleantech and chair of the mobility pitch session in the Cleantech Venture Summit programme.
- **2023-09** — Listed as a speaker on developing a federation of sustainability-focused companies in the Hong Kong Management Association’s Cambridge Innovation and Sustainability Programme.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/martin-garratt-0b221045

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