For 11 years Martin was sector group manager of Romazo; the sector group for the Dutch Solar Shading Industry. During that time he was also active in several Es-So committees such as the Marketing Committee and the Training Committee. To-day Martin is still member of this last Committee and since 2018 Smart Solar Shading trainer for the Dutch and Belgian market.

Martin is active member of the advisory committee to the Dutch Ministry of Building about the rules and regulations for NZEB. For the Dutch norm institute NEN he acts as a trainer for the use of the validated software program to calculate the obligatory energylabel. Besides this he is chairman for the normcommission for the safety and technical demands for patio covers and involved is a working group developing for special a norm optimising automatically controlled solar shading.

In his own private consultancy firm Martin advises companies about strategy and future developments and is member of several advisory boards outside the Solar Shading industry.