Michael D. Moberly
Michael D. Moberly
I am the founder of Knowledge Protection Strategies and I am a strong advocate of intangible assets! This includes respectfully teaching and training management teams to achieve operational familiarity with intangibles, i.e., identifying, unraveling, developing, assessing, safeguarding, mitigating risk, and conducting due diligence to ensure companies and/or holders of intangibles are positioned to sustain control, use, ownership and monitor asset value, materiality, and risk in various industry sectors, M&A's, buy-sell, and venture capital transactions.
I also offer guidance to companies on developing their intangible assets to maximize asset value, and produce sustainable competitive advantages and new sources of revenue.
I am a strong believer that essential preludes to consulting and training others about intangibles, is to remain current and forward looking in one's research and be able to effectively communicate issues (verbally, in writing) in an informative and persuasive manner.
The primary emphasis of my work, research, and writing is to encourage and guide clients to fully utilize their intangible assets. The range and depth of my work experiences and various engagements is often characterized as 'unraveling and fixing' problems, i.e., challenges, disputes, misappropriation, premature leakage, etc., related to company's IP, proprietary information, and other forms of intangible assets with a strong emphasis on achieving organizational resilience.
2003 – Present (11 years)St. Louis
I am an intangible asset strategist and risk specialist. The primary mission of KPSTRAT is ‘intersecting intangible assets, IP, and business' to add value, create sources of revenue and competitive advantages for companies. I work respectfully with management teams to reflect the globally universal economic fact that 80+% of most company’s value and sources of revenue evolve directly from intangibles.
KPSTRAT conducts seminars and training to aid company management teams acquire operational familiarity with intangible assets which includes the ability to identify, unravel, assess, safeguard, and monitor asset value, relevance, and risks.
Mike brings 25+ years of experience to intangibles and has a strong business understanding how intangible assets originate, develop, mature, become embedded in business processes and their contribution to business transactions including conducting due diligence. Mike’s professional experiences include 20+ years in academia (1982-2002) from which I achieved domestic and international experiences, a strong work/research regimen, and business communication skills.
Business IP and Intangible Asset Blog
Mr. Moberly has researched and written 580+ posts for his 'Business IP and Intangible Asset Blog' (http://kpstrat.com/blog) now being routinely read in 137+ countries.
Speaking Engagements
Mike has been an invited subject matter expert for 'on air' commentary for CNN, CNBC, and NPR. Mike has accumulated 75+ national and international speaking engagements.
Publications - Books
Mike has published numerous articles for Intellectual Asset Management, co-authored a comprehensive paper on university technology transfer and written a book titled 'Safeguarding Intangible Assets', to be published in Spring, 2014 by Elsevier.
Education
Mike holds BA and MPA degrees from Indiana University along with hours toward a doctoral degree in political science.
Professional Associations:
ASIS International, Information Asset Protection Council, immediate past Chair, and voted as ASIS Council Chairperson of the year for 2013.
Intangible Asset Finance Society, Chair for Program Development and Global Outreach.
August 1982 – August 2002 Carbondale, IL
This was a fulltime teaching and research position I held for 20 years. During this time, I designed and taught the initial courses (senior seminars) related to safeguarding intellectual property, intangible assets as well as 'economic espionage'. I conducted numerous (independent) studies regarding various matters related to targeting of university-based research by international (state sponsored) intelligence organizations and competitor/business intelligence.
I have also served as an adjunct professor in Webster University's MBA program where I courses in competitive management and corporate security which included risk management, IP, and intangible assets
