Rod D. Martin, founder and CEO of The Martin Organization, is a technology entrepreneur and futurist from Destin, Florida. He was a senior advisor to PayPal founder and CEO Peter Thiel, served as policy director to Governor Mike Huckabee, and was thrice elected president of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies. He is a former member of the Florida Baptist Convention’s State Board of Missions and a former officer of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a member of Village Baptist Church in Destin, Florida.