PROFILE
DR. D. (DEREK) ANTHONY MILES NATIONALLY-KNOWN BUSINESS AND MARKETING EXPERT, CONSULTANT, AND STATISTICIAN
Dr. D. Anthony Miles is an entrepreneur, award-winning researcher, award-winning professor, statistician, legal expert witness, and best-selling author. A nationally known expert in the fields of entrepreneurship and marketing, Miles is a startup and marketing expert who has appeared in the national media for his expertise. He is CEO and Founder of Miles Development Industries CorporationÂŽ, a consulting practice and venture capital acquisition firm. He is also host and executive producer of Game On Business TalkÂŽ radio show and a visiting professor. He has presented his research at conferences around the country, most notably, Stanford University, and was recently invited to speak at Harvard Business School. With over twenty years in retail banking and financial services industries, Miles developed the business plan for Brooks City Air Force Base. He has ten years of experience consulting startups; and eleven years as a statistician in marketing research, analytics, survey design, data collection, and focus groups. MEDIA EXPERT/LEGAL
EXPERT WITNESS Miles has been featured on nationally syndicated media outlets including Forbes, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, The Debbie Nigro Show, Money Matters with Chris Hensley, The Earl Cobb Show, and The Michael Dresser Show. He is also a legal expert witness, provides expert testimony on business scams, false advertising claims, and trade dress for local, state, and federal civil and criminal cases, RESEARCH/PUBLICATIONS
Miles is an author and researcher of numerous academic journals. He is the best-selling author of Risk Factors and Business Models and Entrepreneurship and Risk. His most popular
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research is his marketing study featured in RateMyProfessors.com, which discusses social media and consumer behavior. He is also an editorial board member of ten academic journals. AWARDS Miles has won numerous awards for his business research. He is a four-time winner of the Academy of Business Research Conference (ABR) Award for best research in Marketing and Economics, won the Best Research in Marketing Award at the 2017 ABR Conference, won the 2010 Teaching Excellence Award from the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, won a fellowship for his doctoral research with the 2009 USASBE Doctoral Consortium while completing his Ph.D., and he was selected as one of seventeen distinguished doctoral researchers nationwide in the field of entrepreneurship. CONTACT www.mdicorpventures. com, email: dmiles@mdicorpventures.com, business cell: (210)-362-0460 I
WITH OVER TWENTY YEARS IN RETAIL BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRIES, DR. MILES DEVELOPED THE BUSINESS PLAN FOR BROOKS CITY AIR FORCE BASE.