Intellectual Ventures

Founded Intellectual Ventures in 2000 and has served as CEO since. One of the firm's most prolific inventors, credited with 900 awarded U.S. patents and several hundred pending.

Advisor experienced in on-demand services, international growth, scaling engineering teams, and content/editorial.

Brian Holloway is Vice President and Head of both the Deep Science Fund and Enterprise Science Fund at Intellectual Ventures. He has over 20 years of experience spanning venture capital, private equity, and the industrial, academic, and government sectors, with work in startups, investing, management, and scientific research. His technical background covers energy generation, distribution, and storage, alternative energy, composites, manufacturing, nanomaterials, thin film deposition, and materials characterization with a focus on surface analysis.

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Melissa Kosciusko is a digital marketing associate at JumpStart Inc., where her work includes content development, social media management, and promotion of programs and events for entrepreneurs and small businesses. She has also served as an emcee at community events focused on small business owners and local innovation.

Melissa Lukach is Head of Corporate Communications at Intellectual Ventures, where she manages internal, external, and CEO communications. She also oversees marketing, press relations, customer service, and business development for Modernist Cuisine and Modernist Cuisine Gallery, and is the founder of Morning Night, which advises culinary and design businesses on press outreach. In 2018, she was a PR News Platinum Awards finalist in three categories: Marketing Team of the Year, Media Relations, and Product Launch.