Nathan Myhrvold

Dr. Nathan Myhrvold is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Intellectual Ventures Management. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Vice Chairman at TerraPower. He founded Intellectual Ventures (IV) in 2000 after retiring from his position as chief strategist and chief technology officer of Microsoft Corporation. During his 14-year tenure at Microsoft, Myhrvold helped spearhead many of the company's most successful products and founded Microsoft Research. Today, Myhrvold is focused on building a market for invention, where inventors realize the value of their ideas. Under his leadership, IV manages one of the largest and fastest growing intellectual property (IP) portfolios in the world, with more than 40,000 assets and over $6 billion in total committed capital. IV's investors include many of the world's most innovative companies and renowned academic and research institutions.