Martin has helped over 40 million people worldwide through Texthelp, the company he founded, to help people with dyslexia to read, write, express their thoughts and share information more accurately and fluently, no matter their stage of life.
Martin founded the Northern Ireland-based company in 1996, initially focussing on people with profound speech and dexterity abilities. He went on to develop Texthelp into a top global assistive technology company offering software which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to read whatever is on the screen aloud to the user. Central Washington University did a study of children and their reading comprehension skills which showed that students using Texthelp learned twice as many words as those who did not.
With offices in the USA, Australia, England and Northern Ireland, Texthelp has a truly global presence. Martin’s goal is to have advanced the literacy and understanding of one billion people by 2030.
Martin is an EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist 2022. He serves as an advisor to the Universal Design for Learning council in the USA, having served on the boards of the Assistive Technology Industry Association and the NIMAS group, part of the United States Office of Special Education Programs. In 2017, he received the Presidential Award for his lifetime contributions to literacy amongst dyslexics from the International Dyslexia Association.