17 - 19 March 2025
ExceL London

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Martin Traynor OBE

Martin Traynor OBE

Chair, Institute of Hospitality

Martin has recently completed five years as the Small Business Crown Representative, at the Cabinet Office, where he was tasked to work with government departments and arm’s length bodies to make public procurement policies, practices, and procedures simpler for SMEs to navigate. This culminated in the Procurement Act 2023.

Following a successful career in hotel management, in 2001 Martin decided to change career and take up the role of Group Chief Executive of the Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce (including CEO of Business Link, Leicestershire). After leaving the Chamber in 2014 to set up his own consultancy business, Martin took on a number of key non-executive roles, including Chair of the King Richard lll Visitor Centre Trust, Chair of The Forest Experience Ltd, and Deputy Chair of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Martin has a long history of working with local, region, and central government on economic development, regulatory reform, and procurement. In 2018, Martin completed six years on the HM Govt’s Regulatory Policy Committee. He has also served as a Champion for the Govt’s Red Tape Challenge and an Advocate for Business Focus on Enforcement. Martin successfully piloted the Better Business for All programme and worded with colleagues from Regulatory Delivery to role out the programme across the UK.

In the 2007, Martin was awarded an OBE in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours for “services to business and the community of the East Midlands”.

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