Our Team
We are guided by integrity, animated by enthusiasm, constantly pursuing progress, and built on a foundation of steward leadership
M·CAM® team members embed M·CAM’s core principle of sincerely valuing all wholesome expressions of humanity, creativity, and diversity. Each M·CAM® community member plays pivotal roles within their area of focus, as well as the greater M·CAM® mission and ecosystem. All community members work together towards shared outcomes and that is why we highly value teamwork.
David E. Martin, PhD
Dr. David Martin founded M·CAM® in 1998 and has served as its CEO and Chairman since that time. M·CAM® has been an international intangible asset underwriter and analyst firm spanning work in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance.
Dr. Martin is the developer of several innovation-based quantitative indices of public equities and is the Founder of the Purple Bridge Funds. He managed the Innovation Alpha ETFs (NYSE:INAU; NYSE:INAG; and NYSE:TWAR). He is the creator of the public equity index – the CNBC IQ100 powered by M·CAM® which now is reported as a leading economic indicator for the U.S. and Global Innovation Economy published by The Conference Board.
As a spokesperson for global financial and intangible asset accountability and quality reform, Dr. Martin has worked closely with the United States Congress and numerous trade and financial regulatory agencies in the United States, Europe, and Asia in advocating and deploying infrastructure to support growing reliance on contract and proprietary rights in business transactions. Under the leadership of Dr. Martin, M·CAM® has supported the modernization of banking, intangible asset, tax, and accounting laws through its work with oversight agencies and policy makers. This work included work with the United States Congress, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the United States Departments of the Treasury and Commerce, the European Union and many other countries. Dr. Martin received his undergraduate (BA) from Goshen College, his Masters of Science from Ball State University, and his Doctorate (PhD) from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Martin is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Our Values
Where creativity and humanity are valued through celebrating and acknowledging ingenuity, customs and cultures from around the globe, innovation, and heritable knowledge.
Our mission is to bring creativity, innovation, and human ingenuity into the basis of all value exchanges between people, M·CAM® is a place where creativity and humanity are valued through celebrating and acknowledging ingenuity, customs and cultures from around the globe, innovation, and heritable knowledge. We have operations around the world and coordinate these endeavors from Charlottesville, Virginia – also the home to the University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson.
We recognize innovation is frequently misused and confined by powerful social structures to “bring order” to and to control free flowing innovation. This isn’t acceptable and, rather than simply being dissatisfied with a system that does not serve humanity well, we have created a one‐of‐a‐kind engagement model. Our purpose is to align human innovation and value exchange for equivalent access. By utilizing our intent based communication analysis tools and ethical standards, we are able to remove restrictive obstacles that encumber ingenuity.
Our Story
M·CAM® has created the global standard in ethical use of, and the equivalent access to intangible assets in the finance and corporate marketplace
Recognizing innovation is at the core of every commercial value proposition and realizing that the lack of transparency and accountability in its use, M·CAM® has forged a globally unique business model that aligns innovation with ethical value exchanges. This means that banks can actually use intangible assets as regulatory capital qualified collateral reducing the cost of finance. This means companies can use intangible assets as financeable assets in credit and commercial markets. This means innovators can access capital to develop and build businesses. This means communities with heritable knowledge can participate in the ethical use of their wisdom traditions.
This sounds great, but let’s face it – the last few hundred years of government and corporate bureaucracy have built some rather elaborate systems which have created barriers to equal access to these lofty goals. Built on the global technology transfer foundation of Mosaic Technologies’ market experience, Mosaic Collateral Asset Management – M·CAM® – has created the global standard in ethical use of, and the equivalent access to intangible assets in the finance and corporate marketplace.
“we developed structured finance solutions which embrace innovation and obsolescence so that large scale infrastructure and civil society projects can use public funds more efficiently”
Along the way, we developed the world’s first and only regulatory-acceptable intangible asset collateral instrument to provide regulatory capital relief for banks and lower credit costs to borrowers.
Along the way, we developed structured finance solutions which embrace innovation and obsolescence so that large scale infrastructure and civil society projects can use public funds more efficiently. Realizing that public expenditures are made across the globe, we’ve integrated sovereign technology credit obligations and trade credit offsets to form the most efficient and accountable investment products.
Along the way, we developed the only government-recognized and used (both for Congress and the U.S. Treasury) technology platform to audit patent and intangible asset quality and market enforceability. We are reminded of President Garfield’s quote from 1880, “I am an advocate for paper money, but that paper money must represent what it professes on its face. I do not wish to hold in my hands the printed lies of the government.” Well, President Garfield (and all of us) can rest easy because we find the counterfeit innovation and get it out of circulation.
Along the way, we M·CAM’d ourselves and innovated a variety of products and services that allow businesses, schools, governments and individuals a means of using the Global Innovation Commons and our unstructured intent-based communications analysis systems to gain unprecedented visibility and actionable intelligence to insure that effective, legitimate innovation gets deployed to benefit all of us.
