Martin Allen Morales

Martin Allen Morales is an award-winning CEO, social entrepreneur and international business leader with a career spanning the commercial, charitable and social impact

sectors. Across his career, one theme has remained constant: bringing people, ideas and organisations together to build a fairer, more sustainable and more inclusive world.

His international career began in music and technology, where he was part of the founding European team that launched Apple’s iTunes, working alongside Steve Jobs, before going on to lead Disney’s music business across 27 countries in

Europe. He later became a social entrepreneur, founding and scaling the Ceviche and Andina restaurant group, employing more than 200 people and building one of the UK’s most recognised Latin American food and cultural brands, with sustainability, ethical sourcing and community at its heart.

Martin is currently Chief Executive of the Institute of Imagination. The charity works with children, educators and communities to develop creativity, skills and agency through play, STEAM and emerging technology, while contributing to wider policy and systems change.

Born in Peru and arriving in Britain as a child refugee, Martin brings a deeply international perspective to his leadership and a strong understanding of migration, inequality and the relationship between opportunity, culture and economic empowerment. 

Martin is currently a Non-Executive Director of Como No and recently served as an Expert Commissioner on England’s National Play Commission. He is also a best-selling author, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Founder of the OKAL

Forum for social impact leaders. 

https://www.instituteofimagination.org/