About Michael Koziol & RSC Holdings
Through RSC Holdings, Michael Koziol partners with, invests in, and advises companies in the marketing, digital, and tech-enabled services categories.
As a founder and operator who has navigated inflection points and critical growth situations, Michael brings a unique perspective to owners, operators, and investors looking to create enduring value and shareholder returns 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, scalable operations, and differentiated 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, and investors face across different growth stages and market cycles.
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Together with Park South Venture, RSC Holdings established Infinite as a new strategic communications platform. The initial investment was made in early August 2025 and two follow-on acquisitions were completed in April 2026 and June 2026 - Dukas Linden PR and Greentarget UK, respectively. Michael Koziol serves as a board member, operating partner, and M&A sourcing lead.
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Board member and Executive Chair for the pure-play healthcare consultancy. HBS provides a full range of specialized capabilities to leading health systems, academic medical centers, and other provider organizations on the front lines of delivering patient care. The company has assembled and integrated a suite of services that extends from strategic planning, facility design and innovation, through execution and implementation
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Early investor in and advisor to select startups, including:
BeeHero (agtech) - A market leader in precision pollination in the U.S. and Australia. BeeHero optimizes crop yields through precision pollination, combining sophisticated machine learning algorithms with low-cost sensors to stimulate full output potential during peak pollination cycles. By tracking and optimizing pollination in real-time, BeeHero ensures hyper-efficient pollinators that can increase crop yields by 30% on average. Beehero’s platform already enables commercial growers to optimize crop-yield for 70% of major commercial crops. Based in California and operating globally, BeeHero manages the largest database of bees & pollination. The company has traction working with farmers and industry groups, including the largest association of almond growers in the world.
FanConnect (sports) - FanConnect enables great fan experiences and fully integrated sponsor inventory on the TVs in the suites, club levels and concourses, the tablets in premium seating areas, and the signage in concession areas. FanConnect IPTV and digital signage is used by teams in every US major league and the NCAA.
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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).
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Original and branded entertainment content studio. Developed and produced an original youth-oriented content program together with AT&T based on the award winning Wayfinder.TV multi-platform format. The program included social + video productions with blink-182 and pro skateboarders Paul Rodriguez and Manny Santiago. Other programs included a collaboration between Chelsea Football Club, adidas, and Asian broadcasters and a young adult comedy series produced for Canada's Teletoon at Night network.
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In 2004, the firm that Michael Koziol co-founded with Melissa Honabach in 1999 - Ant Farm - was acquired by Montreal-based Nurun. Nurun, at the time, was publicy traded on the TSX and had a burgeoning global footprint. Following the acquisition. he served as a key executive of the global platform and was heavily involved in the firm's growth, corporate strategy, investor relations, and M&A activities, including one of the first agency acquisitions in China. After nearly 3x growth in team size and revenue, and a nearly 4x return on EV, Nurun was acquired by QMI in 2008. The platform still operates within the Publicis Groupe of companies.
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Co-founded Atlanta-based Ant Farm Interactive - an early full-service interactive agency. In addition to the early wave of .com clients, we advised and supported numerous clients in retail, media & entertainment, telecom, Government, travel & transportation, and more. Key clients included Cingular Wireless (now AT&T), The State of Georgia, Frontier Airlines, Idealab, The Home Depot, Intercontinental Hotels, and Disney.
In April 2004, Ant Farm was acquired by Nurun, Inc., a global digital agency based in Montreal. In addition to integrating Ant Farm into the global business of Nurun, my business partner and I, along with the CEO of Nurun, drove the transformation of the company from a development and integration firm to a global strategy and digital marketing and design business. -
Member of the team that planned and launched the BellSouth internet yellow pages. Responsible for product development, pricing, and market rollout for the suite of digital media and advertising products.
Following the launch of the YP business, the role evolved into a strategy and planning position focused on growth opportunities such as the first JV with SBC, Ameritech, and U.S. West; the partnership and investment in ad network Flycast (CMGI), and supporting the launch of new interactive businesses for the company.