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Kostas Mallios

Vice President, Intellectual Ventures

Ideas are the new currency of the 21st century. I believe in the power of ideas and technology and an individual's ability to make a difference. My experience in building new businesses and expanding existing ones has spanned research and development, product development, mergers and acquisitions and business development across multiple industries. Throughout my career, I have identified and engaged new opportunities by combining new and existing ideas, and cultivating networks of brilliant and creative minds in order to produce real solutions and lasting business value. Currently, as Vice President at Intellectual Ventures, I build technology based businesses through partnerships with institutions, companies and governments in order to begin addressing mega-trends and grand challenges such as elder health care, energy efficiency and food quality and safety. I believe that the practical application of technology, driven by a shared vision, can solve these generation-defining challenges and help humanity while creating magnificent business opportunities. In addition, my current role at Intellectual Ventures drives me to build new technology based start-ups and strategies that generate value added business models for intellectual property and invention. In 2012, during a period of economic turmoil in Greece, a team of us established the PJ Tech Catalyst seed fund to help fund great ideas and entrepreneurs. As a member of the management team, I meet entrepreneurs and evaluate their company plans and ideas. PJ Tech Catalyst has funded several companies and entered into broader partnerships to help entrepreneurs thrive with experienced mentors by their side. Before Intellectual Ventures, I spent 15 years as an executive and partner at Microsoft in various Product Development, M&A, Marketing and R&D functions working for C-level executives. While there, I had the opportunity to work on some world class businesses and break some Microsoft and industry records. Over the years I’ve also run a consulting business, a greeting card company, and I’ve interviewed some of the world’s biggest rock stars. Mine is a career predicated on people – people from across every walk of life – and the capacity for business to meet their needs. That is a belief and a practice I learned from my first job, our family’s restaurant business, which remains to this day the pivot that made my career possible.

September 21, 2013

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