Biography
Mark Holmes is the founder and CEO of PatentBridge LLC, a privately held technology development firm in Silicon Valley that specializes in brokering patented technologies covering extraordinary software and Internet-related breakthroughs.
Mr. Holmes is also the CEO and Co-Founder of RavenWhite Cybersecurity, Inc. which was selected as one of the top 10 cybersecurity startups worldwide at the RSA Conference. He serves on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate Infosec Technology Transition Council (ITTC). He was a Founder and Executive of Business Development for the DeCaf Co. which for over 20 years attempted to create the world’s first consumer instant decaffeination product. He was also the co-founder of a successful telecommunications startup which was sold to a portfolio company of a large state employee pension fund.
He is an angel investor both as Managing Director of Sand Hill Private Investments and as a Band of Angels member.
Mr. Holmes has advised such technology savvy entities as Sony, Visa, Applied Materials, University of California at Berkeley as well as many startups and has been named every year to the IAM Strategy 300 – The World’s Leading IP Strategists. He served as co-chair of the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) from 2006 to 2011.
He lectures nationally on the pressing issues facing tech startups. He has spoken nationally over 50 times for such bodies as Renaissance Weekend, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Washington State Patent Law Association, Oregon Patent Law Association, Licensing Executive Society (LES), PLI and other organizations. He served on the Board of Editorial Advisors of the Intellectual Property Counselor (Thompson Reuters) from April 2007 to July 2013 and has served on the Steering Committee of the Brown University Alumni Association starting in June 2015.
He holds an engineering degree from Brown where he serves as class liaison to the Board of Trustees, is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Software Society and wrote the book PATENT LICENSING AND SELLING: STRATEGY, NEGOTIATION & FORMS. He earned his law degree from Tulane Law School where he served on the Moot Court Board and competed nationally in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.