Gordon Martin has been involved in both the private and listed corporate sectors and is best known for his role in building family-owned company Coogee (formerly Coogee Chemicals). Mr Martin has been the major shareholder since 1971 and up until June 2015 held the position of executive chair. In July 2015, Mr Martin became a non-executive director before being appointed executive technical director.
His involvement in the listed sector has been as a director of Burswood and United Group. In June 2006, he was appointed Chancellor of Curtin University, a position from which he retired in January 2010.
Mr Martin was the inaugural Western Australian state president and a past national vice president of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and was made a life member of the AICD.
In 2005, he was awarded the Western Australian AICD Gold Medal Award, and in 2008 he was selected as EY's "Champion of Entrepreneurship" for Western Australia.
