The services of HS Sole Trustees are led by Ray Martin who has over 25 years Trustee experience. Following a career in corporate pensions management spanning forty years, working for blue chip multinational companies such as Diageo, AstraZeneca, DHL and Natwest Banking Group, he is now acting as an independent trustee to pension arrangements in both the public and private sector.

Ray was one of the first Accredited Professional Trustees in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (FPMI) and has qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII). He is a member of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees and spent 17 years on the Board of the National Association of Pension Funds (now the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association), as well as, four years on the Council of the Pensions Management Institute. In 2013, he was voted Pensions Personality of the Year by the Professional Pensions magazine and, in the same year, was also named Pension Manager of the Year by Engaged Investor Magazine.

Ray is an Independent Chairman of Trustees for two UK pension schemes and one Irish pension scheme as well as a Trustee of two others and Vice-Chair of the Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme Pensions Board.

Ray is married and has four grown-up children. Having lived and worked in Brussels, Toulouse and Geneva during his career he is a fluent French speaker. Ray lives close to Edinburgh Airport in West Lothian, Scotland.