Martin is CEO and Founder of Kussmann Biotech GmbH, a biotechnology consulting firm in the fields of health, nutrition, and sustainability. He offers scientific and business support for R&D intense companies, institutions, and foundations. His services encompass: scientific & business development; venture capital fund raising; branding; communication & presentation; scientific publishing; scientific literature review; leverage of personal professional network. Martin is also ‘Head of Science’ at the Competence Center for Nutrition (KErn) within the Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry. KErn is a platform bringing together agriculture, food production and retail, consumers, science, and education to facilitate integrated solutions for a healthier and more sustainable food system in Bavaria, Germany, a federal state with 13 M inhabitants. Trained as a biochemist Martin has accomplished a 30-years dual corporate/academic career with experience in nutrition, pharma, and biotechnology. He held professorships at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland; Aarhus University, Denmark; and The University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he was also Scientific Director of the National Science Programme ‘High-Value Nutrition’. Martin has co-created and managed four research units and scientifically led three institutions. Martin is an internationally requested, multi-lingual author, editor, and lecturer credited with ~200 publications.