Michele Riley is a Senior Advisor in Stout’s Disputes, Compliance and Investigations group. Michele has a focus on intellectual property damages and valuation, and has testified regarding damages in patent, trademark and copyright infringement, as well as trade secret misappropriation cases. She has performed valuations of intellectual property for arms-length licensing and litigation matters, and negotiated agreements for the purchase, sale and licensing of intellectual property. In addition, she has audited royalty streams on technology licenses for clients in a number of industries.
Michele has been named in the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals each year from 2014 to the present. She is a past board member (Treasurer) of the Licensing Executives Society (USA &Canada), and serves on the advisory board for the Accounting and Information Assurance department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.
Michele holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in Physics from Emory University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified in Financial Forensics. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, and a Certified Licensing Professional.