Terry Valeski, ’68, has been appointed executive in residence in the marketing department at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
Valeski, who is a member of the Beta Phi Hall of Honor, is executive chairman of the Board of Advent portfolio company, Aircom International. He was also on the board of Advent portfolio company MACH, a leading global provider of inter-operator billing services, and advises Advent on telecommunications sector investments. He is an operating partner for Advent International Private Equity.
He is also vice chairman of T-Mobile in the Czech Republic and a board director of Ceske Radiokommunicaze, the Czech broadcast transmission business. He is an adviser to Ernst and Young M&A Group, London.
He has served on the board of Intellisync and Sonim Technologies. Over the course of his operating career Valeski has launched and operated five different wireless operations in as many countries. Companies he has worked for include Eurotel Praha (as CEO); BT Wireless; Blu (BT Joint Venture Italy); Telfort (BT Joint Venture Holland); British Telecom; Pacific Bell Mobile Services (US); Atari Corporation-U.S. ( onsultant); Mattel Inc.; IN TV Corporation (U.S.) and Teledyne Waterpik (U.S.). He began his career at J. Walter Thompson advertising as a senior VP.
Terry has a liberal arts degree from the University of Arizona. He is a member of the National Board of Advisors to the dean of The Eller College, an Executive in Residence for Eller, a member of the Sigma Chi Alumni Association Executive Board, Arizona Wildcat Hall of Honor and Arizona Letterman.