Dr. D. Anthony Miles, is CEO and founder of Miles Development Industries Corporation®, a venture consulting practice and venture capital acquisition firm. Miles is a leading expert in the areas of entrepreneurial risk, entrepreneurship, and business model development. He has over 20 years experience in the private sector. He has held positions with fortune 500 companies such as PAC Incorporated, Wells Fargo Bank, Reliance Acceptance Corporations, CitiFinancial, (a subsidiary of Citigroup Bank), and H.E.B. Grocery Store Chain.

He has consulted several start-up ventures and small businesses on business risk, business plans, entity formation, and market research. He is also a partner with VitaMin, P.C., a tax preparation training software venture. He consulted and developed a business plan and strategy plan for Brooks City-Base, a former military base that was under Base Realignment Closure (BRAC) in San Antonio, Texas. He conducted research on minority contract awards trends with the City of San Antonio Government?s Economic Development Department. He has conducted market research on the feasibility of bringing a major franchise to Alamo Colleges-Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas.

Miles background is in entrepreneurship/small business, business model development, risk metrics, turnarounds, angel investing, venture capital, franchising, mergers and acquisition; ?Marketing (competitive analysis, advertising, brand management, marketing metrics, strategic marketing, market research, positioning, media planning); ?Economic Development, Base Realignment Closure (BRAC), inner city economic development; ? Banking and finance (consumer, commercial, auto, lending, credit analysis, real estate); ?Research (survey, industry, organization, and quantitative analysis).

Miles has a Ph.D./MBA in Entrepreneurship/General Business, University of the Incarnate Word; MBA in International Business, Our Lady of the Lake University; BBA in Marketing, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Miles has four certifications in the following fields:

Management Consultant Professional (MCP) ? Professional Certification International Management Consultants Board ? & Graduate Board of Management GBM?

Registered Business Analyst (RBA) ? Professional Certification International Management Consultants Board ? & Graduate Board of Management GBM?

Certified Chartered Marketing Analyst (CMA) ? Professional Certification International Management Consultants Board ? & Graduate Board of Management GBM?

Master Business Consultant (MBC)? Professional Certification International Management Consultants Board ? & Graduate Board of Management GBM?

Miles has authored two books: "Risk Factors and Business Models: Understanding the Five Forces of Entrepreneurial Risk and the Causes of Business Failure (2011)"; and "Entrepreneurship and Risk: The Five Forces of Entrepreneurial Risk (2011)"

Miles, owns a pending patent for his research instrument ?The Entrepreneurial Risk Assessment Scale (ERAS)? instrument used for measuring business risk of startup business ventures.

Miles is also an adjunct professor with the College of Business at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. Prior he taught business courses as a visiting professor at Centro Universitario-Incarnate Word (CIW) in Mexico City, Mexico. He has taught courses in management, marketing, market research, entrepreneurship, small business management, and finance. His areas of research specialty are in entrepreneurship, small business, management, venture capital, organizational behavior, marketing, economic development, and general business.