Exospect is built around the research and consulting work of Roberto Evaristo, Ph.D. His Strategic Resource Mapping (SRM) methodology helps organisations see where their critical expertise actually lives, where the gaps are, and where capabilities can be recombined in ways that aren't obvious from org charts or existing systems.

Roberto spent nearly fifteen years as a business school professor, with appointments across the United States, Europe, and Scandinavia. In 2006, he joined 3M's Corporate Strategy Group, where he spent eight years deploying SRM across R&D, manufacturing, sales, and M&A — spanning multiple business units, functions, and geographies. That work contributed to over $300 million in cumulative sales growth in the electronics division alone and earned 3M's highest corporate staff award, the Pyramid of Excellence.

SRM has since been deployed across organisations on four continents, in domains ranging from R&D innovation and workforce planning to post-merger integration and government capability assessment. The methodology is published in peer-reviewed journals including Business Horizons and supported by related research on expertise and innovation in Research Policy.

Roberto's academic publications have accumulated over 5,700 citations. His research has been presented at The Conference Board alongside McKinsey, and his work in science and technology parks received the IASP Inspiring Solutions award (3rd place globally, Beijing, 2015).

Today, Exospect combines Roberto's consulting methodology with proprietary technology to deliver capability mapping at enterprise scale — making the distribution of expertise visible, measurable, and strategically actionable.

“As I consulted and researched with Fortune 500 companies around the world, it became obvious that all shared the same challenge: individuals who did not know what their colleagues in the adjacent room were working on, much less what their skill inventory was. The problem just gets amplified as you look across business units, across functions, across geographies. That was the beginning of SRM.”