Motorola Ventures

TONY PALCHECK
Managing Director, Midwest

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Tony Palcheck is a managing director at Motorola Ventures, based in Schaumburg, Illinois. In this role, he is responsible for identifying and executing strategic, minority-equity investments (at early and later stages) in start-up firms to accelerate access to new technologies, new markets and new talent for all Motorola businesses. Tony brings over a decade of experience in venture capital and strategy experience, and actively participates in strategy development for various Motorola business sectors.

Prior to joining the Motorola Ventures, Tony was a director in the Corporate Business Intelligence group at Motorola. In this role, Tony was responsible for identifying emerging technologies; assessing competition; evaluating market opportunities; and researching potential investments, divestitures, acquisitions and alliances. He joined the Intelligence group from Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group, where he led the next generation cellular market requirements research, forecasting and segmentation efforts. Prior to that, Tony worked in various product and market development roles at Motorola and Ameritech.

Tony holds an undergraduate degree in marketing and an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago, where he graduated with honors. He has spoken on behalf of Motorola at several events including Frost and Sullivan's Executive Summit, Northwestern University's Digital Frontiers event, UCLA's Mobile Experience 2.0 conference. He also serves as an advisor in DePaul University's ASK program, which provides guidance to masters candidates and is an adjunct faculty member at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.