Martin is a professor of information systems at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany. His teaching and research focus on the digital transformations of big, old companies in order to stay competitive in an increasingly digital economy.

Professor Mocker is also a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he previously worked as a Research Scientist for several years.

Martin held faculty positions at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands and Hult International Business School in London, UK. Before joining academia, Martin worked as an Engagement Manager and consultant at McKinsey & Company with senior executives on strategic IT challenges.

Martin has been invited as a keynote speaker and moderator of panels and workshops on digital transformation, business complexity, and strategic IT management at numerous events including Microsoft’s Global CIO Summit, IBM’s Pulse Executive Summit, the Handelsblatt Annual IT Conference and MIT Sloan’s CIO Symposium.

Martin’s award-winning research has been published in leading academic and management journals including Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Management Information Systems Quarterly and the European Journal for Information Systems; he is also a senior editor for Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive as well as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Strategic Information Systems.

Martin holds a doctoral degree from the University of Muenster and a degree in computer science from the University of Dortmund, Germany.