About Michael Koziol & RSC Holdings

RSC Holdings is the dual investor-operator advisory firm founded by Michael Koziol and serves as his personal investment vehicle for opportunities in the marketing and digital services category.

As a founder and operator who has navigated inflection points and critical growth and operational situations, Michael brings a unique perspective to founders and investors looking to create enduring value in ever-evolving categories.

Michael Koziol is an experienced entrepreneur, operator, and advisor with a successful track record of building strong, aligned, and high-performing teams, operations, and businesses in the marketing and digital services categories. Across his advisory and board engagements and other investments, he works closely with founders, executives, and investors to drive growth, scale operations, and define and deliver on value-creation opportunities and expectations.

Over a nearly 30-year career marked by key media and digital inflection points, intense market cycles, and near constant change, he has founded, scaled, and operated multiple strategy, creative, design, technology, and marketing firms/agencies. This extensive operating experience gives him a deep understanding of the opportunities and challenges that founders, operators, an d investors face across different growth stages and market cycles.

Michael previously served as Global CEO of Huge, among other executive leadership roles, during the firm’s most significant growth era - 400 to 1,500 employees and 5 to 13 global offices. At Huge he built new offices and restructured/reorganized underperforming locations; designed the global integration model, initiated the firm’s nearshore strategy (LATAM), developed new capabilities; and led numerous innovation practices (including Huge Cafe retail lab). 

 In 1999, after launching several digital publishing and advertising businesses for a major telco, Michael and a partner co-founded the early digital strategy and marketing agency - Ant Farm Interactive. Ant Farm began during the .com era and successfully transitioned to being the first digital agency for established businesses after the bust.

In 2004, Ant Farm was acquired by Montreal-based Nurun. Following the acquisition. he served as a key executive of the emerging global platform and was heavily involved in the firm's growth, corporate strategy, investor relations, and M&A activities. After nearly 3x growth in team size, revenue, and EV, Nurun was acquired by QMI in 2008 and subsequently by Publicis in 2014.