Rob Martens is senior vice president and chief innovation and design officer for Allegion.

In this role, he leads Allegion’s corporate development, strategic partnering, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), innovation and design efforts in support of the company’s broader innovation and growth strategy. Rob also serves as Allegion’s futurist, and president of Allegion Ventures, the company’s corporate venture capital fund.

His industry sector experience includes industrial, consumer residential, aerospace, government, transportation, education, medical and energy. Rob joined Allegion in 2014, as futurist and director of connectivity platforms, later becoming its vice president of strategy and platforms. Prior to joining Allegion, he was corporate CIO for Carpenter Technology Corporation, as well as CIO for Ingersoll Rand’s Security Technologies Sector.

With extensive board of directors (BOD) experience, Rob currently serves on the BODs of popular startups Ambient.ai (San Francisco) and Mapped (Los Angeles). Previously, he served as a BOD member for VergeSense, Yonomi, Idenhaus and Indiana-based TechPoint, as well as an advisor for Land O’Lakes and High Alpha Innovation/Alloy.

Rob is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Division I athlete. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Business School (AMP 209) and holds certifications from HBS on driving digital strategies as well as organizational transformation and mergers and acquisitions. Rob has been awarded multiple patents related to his work with the Internet of Things. 

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