Martha Amram is an independent author and consultant. She is an expert on valuation and strategy, and is currently working as an independent consultant in the area of intellectual property valuation. Amram has had a wide range of business experience in management consulting, startup ventures, and academia. She is the author of Value Sweep: Mapping Corporate Growth Opportunities (HBS Press, 2002) and the coauthor with Nalin Kulatilaka of Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World (HBS Press, 1998). Amram is widely published and is a frequent speaker to corporate and conference audiences. Most recently Amram was CEO of Vocomo Software Corporation. Previously she was managing director at Navigant Consulting, where she was head of the real options practice area. She also led the design of Navigant's employee stock-options exchange program and managed strategy consulting teams across a number of industries, from consumer goods to energy to high-tech. Amram was a co-founder of Glaze Creek Partners, a consulting firm, which was sold to Navigant in 1999. Amram has been a vice president at Analysis Group/Economics where she prepared and provided expert witness testimony on financial matters, and has been a faculty member in the School of Management at Boston University where she taught corporate finance. She holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from MIT and has served on the boards of several startup companies. She can be reached at martha at valuesweep.com.