Martin Hoskins was educated at Brunel University and the State University of New York. He then spent three years as an army officer, serving in Cyprus, before joining the Sun Alliance Group, and subsequently the Association of British Insurers. He joined One 2 One in August 2000.

In 1992-3, Mr Hoskins served on a working party on compensation for victims of crime, run by the national Charity Victim Support. Also in 1993 he was a member of a working party set up by the Personal Investment Authority to devise the PIA Ombudsman scheme, and in 1999-2000 was involved in the creation of the Financial Ombudsman Service. In 2001 he contributed to a working party set up by the Office of Telecommunications to establish a Telephone Ombudsman.

For seven years he acted as a consultant to the Lottery Promotion Company, a pressure group that was successful in its efforts to establish the national lottery.

He is a Chartered Insurance Practitioner and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. He was admitted as a Freeman of the City of London in 1986, and served as a Trustee of the Terrence Higgins Trust and the Hysteria Trust in 1997.

He is joint author of "Data Protection Guidance: A Practitioner's Handbook", published by the British Bankers' Association in 2000.

One 2 One

One 2 One launched its digital mobile telephone service in London in September 1993. The company was bought by Deutsche Telecom in August 1999 and is now part of its T-Mobile group of companies.

T-Mobile has established a strong position in core European mobile telecommunications markets and the USA. The company also owns the network operators T-Mobile (Germany), max.mobile (Austria), RadioMobil (Czech Republic), Voicestream Wireless and Powertel (USA). T-Mobile also holds significant stakes in telephone companies in the Netherlands (Ben), Russia (MTS) and Poland (PTC).

The pursuit of synergy led to the founding of T-Motion, a London based subsidiary, specialising in the provision of mobile Internet services, in 1999.