Brent Holliday received his B.Sc. (Hon.) from the University of Western Ontario in the Pharmacology and Toxicology field. He immediately applied the degree in working as an organ donor co-ordinator for the Toronto Hospital and later, the BC Transplant Society. For three years, he wore a pager, carried a cell-phone (which at the time was unusual and the thing weighed 10 lbs.!) and was on 24 hour call for hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys used to save lives. To put it mildly, the job involved incredible responsibility and the ability to thrive in chaos.

Brent returned to school to do an MBA at the University of British Columbia where he focused on technology marketing and entrepreneurship. In 1994, Brent and two colleagues won Outstanding Written Business Plan at Moot Corp., an international business plan competition at the University of Texas. That plan, to put all of the universities and colleges of Canada on interactive CD-ROM, became Brent's first try at running a company. After failing to raise sufficient funds, Brent sold to a Toronto company that took the product to market. Brent and 3 colleagues then started Propeller Head Consulting to write marketing and business plans for local tech companies. The stated objective was just to get hired by one of them.

After helping companies like Xantrex, Sonigistix, InMedia Presentations and a few others, Brent met Terry Hui, through Haig Farris, and Multiactive Technologies was born. Multiactive entered the Internet services and product space through a variety of initiatives. Then, Maximizer technologies was bought from a bankruptcy sale and suddenly, the company had 100 employees. The surviving initatives that Brent and his staff began at Multiactive, include ecBuilder, the Brainium and Multiactive Real Estate. After two years living the start-up life, Brent was offered his dream job, venture capitalist. He joined BDC and the Western Technology Seed Investment Fund and was involved in the investment decisions and support of a dozen Vancouver companies.

In February, 1999, Brent and two colleagues, Livia Mahler and Richard Osborn left BDC to start Greenstone Venture Partners, a new technology venture capital fund. The doors will be swinging open shortly on this ambitious initiative that will help grow the BC technology community even further.