Chris Holden brings 18 years of early stage investing and company building experience to Court Square, including 10 years with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in a variety of senior executive roles. From 1995 to 2000 he served as Chief Executive Officer of Kesmai Corporation, a wholly owned software and technology subsidiary of News Corp, which he sold to Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) and America Online (NYSE: AOL).

Prior to becoming CEO of Kesmai, Mr. Holden was VP for the News Technology Group, which held company-wide responsibility for investing in technology-related businesses, as well as managing the integration and deployment of new technologies across News Corp businesses worldwide. He also served on News Corp’s global Interactive Strategy Taskforce, was a member of the executive team that created iGuide, a joint venture between News Corp and MCI which became TV Guide Interactive and merged with Gemstar Corporation (NASDAQ: GMST), and was a senior executive with the News Digital Media Group, which oversaw the online operations of a number of News Corp companies.

Previously, he co-founded the Advanced Media Group for HarperCollins Publishers in New York (a News Corp company) and served as corporate vice president. He has served as a director of numerous private companies in the IT, software, and media sectors, and currently is a director of CSV I portfolio companies CSTV, Logic Library, and Verance. He also serves on the board of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation, the University of Virginia Patent Foundation, and the Charlottesville Music Resource Center.

He is a graduate of Davidson College.