Nick Martin

Co-Founder & CEO, Wine Owners

Nick Martin is CEO of Wine Owners, the business he cofounded a decade ago. Prior to wine tech, he’d been a European leader within a Fortune 500 technology services business, after having managed a global marketing services division within Reed Elsevier (RELX) for the best part of 15 years. His whole career was specialised in data, information and technology, starting out with IDG, a Massachusetts-headquartered market research consultancy analysing tech markets.  

 Wine Owners is in part a product of his experience within tech and data, combined with his passion for wine. 

Nick got into wine though the restaurant business where he spent his early years. It was the beginning of an era when mean, overproduced European staples were being blown away by New World fruit bombs, that at the time felt a bit like going from black and white to colour. Notwithstanding, he retained a love of the classic wine growing regions that comprise the majority of his cellar, though lately he's been enjoying exploring new sub-regions.