User:Mpntod
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Martin Tod is a marketing professional and political activist. He is current Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Winchester.
He was born on August 22, 1964 in Liverpool, England. In 1968, he moved with his parents to Steyning, West Sussex. He was educated at Steyning Primary School, Mowden School in Hove, Lancing College and St John's College, Cambridge where he was Deputy President of the Cambridge Student Union and President of the Cambridge Union.
After graduation in 1987, he joined Procter & Gamble in Egham, Surrey. In 1989, he moved with P&G to Vienna, Austria, where he met his future wife, Michaela Meyer-Blase. In 1991, he moved again to Hofheim am Taunus near Frankfurt. In 1994, he moved with P&G to Prague, Czech Republic where he was appointed Marketing Director. In 1996, he married Michaela in Salzburg, Austria. Finally in 1998, he returned to the UK with P&G, responsible for various beauty care businesses in Central & Eastern Europe.
On his return to the UK, he once again became actively involved in Liberal Democrat politics, becoming his local party membership secretary and then chair, and founding a national organisation for organising the Liberal Democrats internet campaigning - Liberal Democrats Online.
In 2001, Martin was Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, achieving a 6.1% swing from Labour.
In 2002, he left P&G and started work with Vodafone as Head of Brand & Marketing Communications. He left Vodafone in 2005. His final campaign for Vodafone was recognised with a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and was recognised as the best broadcast commercial in the world by the GSM Association at the 2006 GSM Awards in Barcelona.
In 2006, he was Ming Campbell's webmaster during the Liberal Democrats leadership election and is currently Chair of the Liberal Democrats Wired Working Group, responsible for Liberal Democrat internet strategy and planning. In December, he was selected as the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for the new Winchester constituency.
[edit] Family History
His third name, Niebuhr, reflects his descent from the historian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, and the explorer Carsten Niebuhr.
He is a direct descendant of Thomas Garnier, a 19th century Dean of Winchester.
[edit] Wikipedia activity
On February 15, 2004, he edited his first Wikipedia entry. Articles kicked off by Martin, or to which he has made a major contribution, include:
- Cambridge Union Society
- Cambridge University Students' Union
- Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet
- Dew ponds
- Friends' Ambulance Unit
- Steyning
Categories include:
A full list of his contributions is available here
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