Martin Montague

Martin Montague (born 1977) in Portsmouth, UK is an entrepreneur and author. Early life and education Martin Montague grew up on several council estates near Portsmouth including Leigh Park, and later Purbrook where he attended Oaklands Roman Catholic School in Waterlooville. Career Montague started his career as a trainee car salesman in Portsmouth before getting a job as an estate agent. He took evening classes to help with his dyslexia before getting a job with Prudential PFPS as an executive consultant. By the time the company had made its entire direct sales force redundant, he was in the top three sales consultants in the country out of 6,000 staff. In 1999 he was looking to start a virtual and scalable online business and came up with the idea to sell ringtones on the Internet. After the lifecycle for this product finished he started a new software company Symbios Solutions Ltd, which develops revenue optimisation and machine learning technology, servicing more than 3.5m users worldwide.