Chairman of the Advisory Board for the UH Center for Life Sciences Technology
Martin is a husband and a father who considers family the richest of his blessings. He is extraordinarily lucky to be married to Barbara since 1980 (says “I only wish I’d married her when we met in 1973”). They have two wonderful college age children, Daniel and Robyn.
Since 2004 Martin has been an executive with Aquinas Corp. (formerly Linbeck Corporation) the parent company of seven values-driven enterprises with annual revenues over $500 million. Martins’ main role is as President of AlphaDev LLC. AlphaDev is a unique life science preventure technology development company, which also trains select entrepreneurial individuals with multiple degrees as life science executives.
Martin has been privileged to help start, grow or lead two dozen organizations, including ten developing businesses and nine non-profit organizations. Of his first six bio-medical start up involvements, two became public companies each worth approximately $100 million on the NASDAQ and the other four were sold to larger companies (Siemens, DuPont, Targeted Genetics & Invitrogen); three of these four were positive transactions.
Dr. Lindenberg was the founding chairman of the Houston Technology Center where he has been a member of the board of directors since its inception and is active in screening and mentoring companies. HTC is one of the country’s most successful business accelerators, having helped over 100 companies who have raised over $600 million and created over 2,500 jobs. He also on the board of the Gulf Coast Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization, the most prolific part of the Texas Governor’s $200 million Technology Enterprise Fund program. Martin has also served in several community organizations.
Martin qualified as a physician in 1981, in Johannesburg, South Africa. He also holds a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematical statistics, an honors degree in Computer Science and an MBA, all from the University of the Witwatersrand (where he was the first student ever permitted to attend the Executive MBA in parallel with his last two years of medical school).
Martin is a frequent speaker at local organizations such as the MIT Enterprise Forum, the BioMedical Technology Club and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Lindenberg has been an invited speaker at many biomedical and investment industry meetings across the USA, medical and business schools, including Harvard, Thomas Jefferson University, McMaster, Rice University, Boston University, MIT, MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Taiwan-USA annual meeting.
