Martin Lukes is currently imprisoned in the US where he is serving a two-year sentence for insider trading.

For the five weeks preceding his arrest in December 2007, Lukes was CEO of a-b glöbâl, a Fortune 500 company based in Atlanta. Previously he occupied many positions at the goods-to-services conglomerate including Chief Personal Ethics Champion and Chairman of a-b global (UK).

His weekly column in the Finanical Times, which ran from 1999 to December 2007, was eagerly read by captains of industry, among whom Lukes established an unrivalled track record as an iconic thought leader.

Lukes is best known for his two highly original concepts, Creovation™ and Integethics™, which have been much copied by other blue-chip corporations.

Born in Basingstoke in 1961, educated at Cranleigh school and Hull University, where he graduated with a 2:2 in geography, Martin is married to Sherril , with whom he has six-month-old triplets, Martina, Edelweiss, and Tiger. From a previous marriage to Jenny Withers, who succeeded her ex-husband as CEO of a-b glöbâl (UK), he has three children - Jake (23), Max (20) and Carleton (4).

Martin has won countless highly prestigious awards, including BT Outstanding Individual Contribution to Work Life Balance (Runner Up). His hobbies are golf, theatre, opera, African drumming and reading “the classics”.

Martin Lukes: Who Moved my BlackBerry™ is his first book, written in collaboration with Lucy Kellaway.

He cannot be emailed as his BlackBerry was confiscated following his arrest.

For the first column in the series that started Creovation™ click here

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