Martyn Myer is a non-executive director of three publicly listed companies: Cogstate Ltd; SP Ausnet Group (Singapore Power’s Australian listed subsidiary which owns electricity and gas transmission and distribution assets) since 2005, and Diversified United Investments Ltd (a listed equity investment company) since 1991. He was also a director of Coles Myer Ltd from 1996 to 2006.

In 2000, Martyn helped establish Cogstate Ltd and he has been the company’s chairman since that time. Cogstate is a health software services company focused on the development of its cognitive performance diagnostic testing software product. Its main application is in the clinical trials market involving the world’s largest drug companies.

Martyn was president of the Howard Florey Institute at Melbourne University from 2003 to 2007 and a board member until May 2009. In February 2009, he was appointed to the Council of the University of Melbourne. In June 2008, Martyn was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for service to business and the community, particularly through contributions to medical research and the establishment of the Florey Neuroscience Institutes, and through executive and philanthropic roles with a range of organisations.

Martyn is a vice-president of the Myer Foundation and a board member of the Myer Family investment companies. He is chairman of the National Business Leaders Forum for Sustainable Development and a founding council member of the Royal Institution of Australia, and was a trustee of the Telematics Trust from 1995 to May 2009.

Martyn gained a Bachelor of Engineering from Swinburne University in 1980, a Masters of Engineering Science from Monash University in 1989 and a Master of Science in Management from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990.

He owns and operates a small, exclusive (Relais & Chateaux) boutique hotel on Lake Wanaka in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. He is married with three children and his recreational interests include off-piste skiing, mountaineering, motorcycling and road cycling.