The Big Interview
Fidelity’s Lorna Martyn talks thriving during crisis and the need for more women in tech and finance
The lead of the investment giant’s Irish office talks about how a boring summer led to her career as a technologist
Lorna Martyn knows it stretches credulity but, she insists with a grin, it’s 100 per cent true: “and I have all the proof!”
In a field dominated by men since time immemorial, the Irish regional chair of Fidelity Investments – the world’s third-largest asset manager – is that rarest of things: a graduate from an engineering course split evenly between the genders.
“I came out of university in 1991, in a class that was pretty much 50-50,” Martyn tells the Business Post at Fidelity’s offices in Citywest, Dublin.
