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Martin Halford

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Interim Chief Executive Officer / Chief Technology Officer at Polymath
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Martin is a seasoned technology executive, serving as Interim CEO and CTO at Polymath. With over 25 years of experience, he specializes in delivering large-scale software platforms in blockchain and finance across Australia, the UK, India, and Hong Kong. Colleagues describe him as intelligent, meticulous, and a consummate professional.

He is an active contributor to global technology standards, participating in the ISO Technical Committee on Blockchain & DLTs and Scotlands Digital Trust Taskforce. Martin is also a hands-on open-source developer, contributing code to projects focused on smart legal contracts and has served on the Accord Projects Technical Steering Committee.

He once scaled a 6-person software team into a 300+ person development center in three years.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Interim Chief Executive Officer / Chief Technology Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Asset Tokenisation
His work and public posts focus on enabling real-world asset tokenisation on-chain in a compliant and regulated manner, a core mission of his company, Polymath.
Smart Legal Contracts
Co-founded beNEXT. io to create smart legal contracts and is a key contributor and former steering committee chair for the open-source Accord Project.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Interim Chief Executive Officer / Chief Technology Officer
Polymath
12-2025 - 1-2026
Chief Technology Officer
Polymath
1-2024 - 12-2025
Chief Technology Officer
siccar
8-2022 - 2-2024
Head of Technology
MANTRA
2-2019
Contributor
Accord Project
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Education
1992 - 1992
Computer Science
Monash University
1985 - 1990
Applied Science
RMIT University
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