Meet Dr. Becker.

Dr. Michael Becker is an international strategic advisor, author, and educator. As the founder and CEO of Identity Praxis, he advises Fortune 500 companies, startups, and non-profits on self-sovereign identity (SSI)–principled identity & data management, privacy & cybersecurity, product development, marketing, and business development.

 

He is an advisor to companies like Assurant and Military Connect, Predii, Magic ID, and Global Acceptance Network. He is a member of several leading trade organizations, including Mobile Ecosystem Forum (formerly, he was MEF’s ID & Data Chair), MyData Global, and The Startup Marketers (SUM)—he sits on the SUM’s Advisory Board. Dr. Becker’s professional and scholarly interests focus on SSI-principled identity & data management, privacy & cybersecurity, digital [mobile] marketing, personal knowledge management and tools for thought, and The Identity Nexus™.

 

Dr. Becker has delivered over 1,000 keynotes, panels, webinars, workshops, and courses. A prolific author, Dr. Becker writes blogs and has co-authored several books, including Mobile Marketing for Dummies, Web Marketing All-In-One for Dummies, and Mobile Marketing Essentials (online courseware that includes a textbook, learning outcomes, learning assets, assessments—assignments, quizzes, and exams—lecture slides, etc.). He was the founder and co-editor of The International Journal of Mobile Marketing.

 

He has been the program director for several ID & Data and marketing in-person, hybrid, and virtual forums and unconferences (e.g., DMA conferences, MMA Forums, The Connected Marketer Forum, MEF ID Data Forums and unconference). He hosts a weekly Tinderbox community meetup on personal knowledge management and tools for thought—The 5Cs of Knowledge Management for Leashing Your Creative Potential. He is also an adjunct professor for several institutions, including California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, National University, and the Association of National Advertisers.

 

Previously, he co-founded mCordis & The Connected Marketer and iLoop Mobile, an industry-leading mobile marketing SaaS offering. He was a founding member of the Mobile Marketing Association, sat on its board for ten years, and was its North American Managing Director for three years. He has been involved in custom satellite test system development, has developed all-media rich instant messaging solutions, has sold medical devices internationally, and was a member of the team that built the world’s first eBooks (the Rocket eBook by Nuvomedia) and one of the first social media sites, the Rocket eBook Library.

 

He holds a U.S. patent—Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for multiple messaging session management with a graphical user interface.

 

Dr. Becker has received multiple awards, including the Marketing EDGE Education Leadership Award (2014). He earned his BS from Saint Mary’s College of California, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a DBA from Golden Gate University—his dissertation focused on personal information management systems use.

 

He is an avid reader, athlete, and traveler—he has traveled to 54 countries and lived in Tokyo for five years.