Martin Ballinger

Martin Andrew Stanley Ballinger (19 November 1943 – 28 February 2007) was one of the founders of Go-Ahead Group, one of the United Kingdom's largest transport companies.

Career Born in Peterborough and educated at the Salesian School at Chertsey and Imperial College, London, Martin Ballinger qualified as a management accountant while working at the National Bus Company. He became a General Manager there in 1982. and, as its first Chief Executive, led its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange in 1994, and built it into one of the United Kingdom's largest transport businesses.

Ballinger retired from Go-Ahead Group in May 2004. In retirement Ballinger became Chairman of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust and Chairman of Northgate.

The Ballinger family, led by Martin Ballinger, became one of the wealthiest families in the North East of England. The Ballinger Charitable Trust, founded by Martin and Diana Ballinger, is a major a major vehicle for philanthropy in the North East of England, and remains one of the largest grant-making foundations there.

Family In 1968, he married Diana Susan Edgoose and together they went on to have a daughter, and then a son.