{"id":206,"date":"2020-07-01T11:15:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bartechnologies.uk\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:03:17","slug":"martin-whitmarsh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bartechnologies.uk\/about\/meet-the-team\/martin-whitmarsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Whitmarsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section id=\"hero-row\" data-kc-fullwidth=\"row\" class=\"kc-elm kc-css-581829 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-920134 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div data-kc-equalheight=\"true\" data-kc-row-action=\"true\" data-kc-equalheight-align=\"top\" class=\"kc-elm kc-css-371667 kc_row kc_row_inner align-middle\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-603020 kc_col-of-5 kc_column_inner kc_col-of-5 left-team-hero\"><div class=\"kc_wrapper kc-col-inner-container\">\n\n<div class=\"hover-image selected single-team-image no-link\">\n\t<a href=\"\/meet-the-team\/martin-whitmarsh\/#\" target=\"\">\n\t<div class=\"single-profile-image\">\n\t\t<div class=\"single-profile-image-colour lazyload\" style=\"background:inherit;background-size: cover;\" data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/www.bartechnologies.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Martin-Bar-Colour.png)\"><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"single-profile-image-slate lazyload\" style=\"background:inherit;background-size: cover;\" data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/www.bartechnologies.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Martin-Bar.png)\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div><!-- image image -->\n\t<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-631129 kc_col-sm-10 kc_column_inner kc_col-sm-10 right-team-hero\"><div class=\"kc_wrapper kc-col-inner-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-103357 kc_text_block hero-subtitle\"><\/p>\n<p>\nCHAIRMAN<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-115645 kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<h1>Martin Whitmarsh<\/h1>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section data-kc-fullwidth=\"row\" class=\"kc-elm kc-css-902013 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-365532 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-919276 kc_row kc_row_inner\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-862526 kc_col-sm-9 kc_column_inner kc_col-sm-9\"><div class=\"kc_wrapper kc-col-inner-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-47048 kc-animated kc-animate-eff-fadeIn kc_text_block\"><\/p>\n<p>Martin Whitmarsh is Chairman and co-founder of BAR Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>After an engineering degree, Martin began his career within aerospace working with research and development before becoming a director responsible for the manufacture of military aircraft fuselages and advanced composite structures.<\/p>\n<p>Martin joined the McLaren Formula One team as Operations director in 1989 and over the next 25 years was a key part of the leadership team developing the initial turnover of circa \u00a320m to a diverse technology group with a turnover of \u00a3700m. In the final six years Martin held the positions of: group chief executive, deputy chairman of McLaren Automotive and Team Principal of the McLaren Formula One Team.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving McLaren in 2014, Martin became chief executive of the British America\u2019s Cup sailing team until 2017. After the AC campaign Martin and Simon Schofield founded BAR Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Martin in addition to currently being the chairman of BAR Technologies, he is a member of the Global Advisory Board of Formula E and chairman of the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership Limited<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-543879 kc_text_block u-link\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/about\/meet-the-team\/\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-548033 kc_col-sm-3 kc_column_inner kc_col-sm-3\"><div class=\"kc_wrapper kc-col-inner-container\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":176,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Martin Whitmarsh - 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