Focus investment on advantage.
Connect spending on IP, innovation, data and knowledge with the products, markets and capabilities that matter to your future.
Fractional Chief Intangible Assets Officer
Your brands, intellectual property, data and expertise shape the future of your business. Give them a dedicated executive who connects their protection and potential with your commercial ambition.
Explore the roleThe mandate
Who takes responsibility for the value that sits between your departments?
A Chief Intangible Assets Officer gives that value a coherent direction. The role brings together the rights, knowledge, reputation and capabilities on which your business depends, and connects them with leadership decisions.
Working alongside your leadership, legal, IP, finance and R&D teams, your Fractional CIAO establishes shared priorities, connects specialist contributions and stays involved as decisions become action.
A Chief Intellectual Property Officer focuses on the organisation’s IP. A Chief Intangible Assets Officer connects that responsibility with the wider business value of knowledge, brands, data, relationships and human capabilities. DELSOL Group brings both perspectives together around your priorities.
What changes for your business
Executive attention to the assets behind revenue, differentiation, resilience and long-term ownership.
Connect spending on IP, innovation, data and knowledge with the products, markets and capabilities that matter to your future.
Bring ownership, confidentiality and critical dependencies into leadership discussions. Give valuable knowledge the attention its business importance deserves.
Articulate the strengths behind your business in financing, acquisition and exit discussions. Help investors understand what sustains your differentiation.
Connect collaboration, licensing and market expansion with a clear view of what you contribute, what you share and what you need to retain.
Support continuity when experts leave, leadership changes or AI transforms how people work. Preserve the knowledge and judgement behind your advantage.
Bring business units, legal, finance, technology, brand and people leaders into a shared conversation about intangible-asset priorities.
DELSOL Boardroom
Choose your type of organisation and explore one of three executive scenarios. Bring growth, capital, rights, expertise and stakeholder priorities into the same strategic conversation.
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What fractional means
Recurring leadership, integrated into your organisation and shaped around your ambitions.
Stay connected to senior judgement as your business evolves. Your CIAO participates in decisions, coordinates action and follows progress over time.
Define the scope, level of involvement and responsibilities around your needs: a growing company, a group-wide priority, a portfolio business or a period of transformation.
Connect your internal teams and external advisers with business priorities. Legal, technical, financial and operational expertise contribute to a shared direction.
A role shaped around your world
Intangible-asset leadership matters wherever distinctive knowledge, identity and relationships create business value.
Corporate Groups & Multinationals
Connect acquisitions, business units and transformation programmes through a shared view of intangible assets. Strengthen coordination across your existing teams while preserving the distinctive strengths of each business.
Explore your group’s prioritiesLuxury houses & groups
Connect brand equity, creative identity, archives and rare savoir-faire with growth, collaborations and transmission. Bring executive attention to the assets behind the maison.
Explore luxury & heritageInvestment funds & family offices
Connect investment conviction with portfolio company priorities. Support acquisition decisions, value creation, leadership transitions and the continuity of family businesses.
Explore investment & ownershipDeeptech, quantum & AI
Connect scientific discoveries, software, data and specialist know-how with financing, industrial partnerships and scale. Give frontier innovation a stronger commercial foundation.
Explore deeptech
The DELSOL Group difference
Dr. Benjamin DELSOL brings scientific depth, IP leadership and a human understanding of knowledge to the same decision table.
A European Patent Attorney & Litigator recognised in the IAM Strategy 300, Benjamin combines a PhD in Quantum Physics, an LL.M in IP Law & Management and a diploma in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Through DELSOL Group, his executive perspective connects with capabilities in governance, AI systems, education, technical problem solving, venture development and decision intelligence. Your priorities can move from strategic intent into the capabilities needed to advance them.
Meet our founderPerspectives by Dr. Benjamin DELSOL
Selected articles on the knowledge, decisions and relationships behind lasting value.
Executive intangible-asset leadership
The case for a dedicated executive responsibility spanning the assets behind competitive advantage.
Read perspectiveExecutive IP leadership
An earlier perspective on the CIPO role and the value of IP leadership within the management team.
Read perspectiveInvestment & transactions
Looking at the value, vulnerabilities and strategic relevance behind an intellectual-property portfolio.
Read perspectiveYour next executive conversation
A growth ambition. An acquisition. A critical partnership. The transmission of a business. Speak directly with Benjamin about the intangible assets behind your next defining decision.
Let’s discuss your prioritiesFounder-led. International in outlook. Based in Switzerland.