Mike Blake is the founder of High Score Strategies, Inc., a boutique firm that specializes in valuing and advising the owners of hard-to-value assets such as complex derivatives, software code, intellectual property, early-stage technology companies, convertible debt instruments, international acquisitions, and data sets.  Mike primarily works with companies in the software, biotechnology, and professional services industries in the United States and abroad.  He is a frequent provider of CPE content for organizations such as BVR and has been the Special Instructor of Valuation for the Georgia Tech TIGER program for most of the last decade.  Mike holds the ASA and ABAR accreditations and is a CFA Charter holder.  He lives with his family outside of Lisbon, Portugal.