About

Guided by people, augmented by AI.

Martin Toussaint is Partner and Managing Director at Polaria, and co-founder of Goria. He guides organisations through their transformation in the age of generative AI, combining technological excellence, change management and a strategic and geopolitical perspective.

Portrait of Martin Toussaint, Partner & Managing Director at Polaria

I help organisations — companies, public bodies and local authorities — define and deliver strategies guided by people and AI. At Polaria, we combine technological excellence with change-management, organisational transformation and leadership expertise. There I am head of training — our historical activity — and I regularly speak as a keynote speaker on AI and its challenges.

My background is unusual: six years in finance and M&A (June Partners), then a specialisation in economic intelligence and geopolitics. That combination lets me read AI-driven transformation through a strategic and geopolitical lens — while keeping people at the centre.

My work is part of a wider ecosystem. I am co-founder of Goria, the platform that guides organisations in learning and deploying AI. Polaria has also given rise, through a merger, to Polaria Tech, its technology subsidiary dedicated to sovereign generative AI. And I am AI & Geopolitics Expert at the Managia chair.

My conviction: it is by putting generative AI into the hands of the many, ethically and consciously, that we unlock innovation and performance everywhere.

Career

  • 2025 Co-founder Goria
  • 2024 AI & Geopolitics Expert Managia Chair
  • 2021 Partner & Managing Director Polaria (formerly Audalom)
  • 2021 Founder Nehebkau — economic intelligence & financial advisory
  • 2016–2021 Senior Associate · M&A / Fundraising June Partners

Education

  • 2023 Executive MBA — Geopolitics & Foresight IRIS SUP'
  • 2022 Executive MBA — Economic Intelligence École de Guerre Économique
  • 2016 MSc Financial Markets & Investments SKEMA Business School
  • Certification — Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation MIT

Ecosystem

My work revolves around Polaria and a set of complementary structures — from deploying AI to research.