
Martin is a graduate of Scecina Memorial High School, class of 1977. He is a graduate of Indiana University – Bloomington, where he received a BS-Accounting degree in 1980. He is a certified public accountant, and spent twenty-two years in the practice of public accounting as a partner with the international CPA firm of Ernst & Young. Martin retired from his last position at E&Y, National Director of Tax Outsourcing Operations, in 2002. He is now the owner, along with his wife, Mari, of AlphaGraphics, a print and marketing communications business with two locations in St. Charles and Park Ridge, Illinois. Martin and Mari have three children and are members of St. Patrick parish in St. Charles.