Terry Valeski, ’68, was inducted in the Arizona Daily Wildcat Hall of Fame on March 26 in ceremonies held at the Marriott hotel near the UA campus. He also was been appointed executive in residence in the marketing department at the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona.
Brother Valeski was the school newspaper’s business manager during the 1967-68 school year. “When I took over a business manager for the Wildcat, we took it to becoming a daily for the first time. I hired a bunch of my Sigma Chi brothers to sell space and some of them paid their way through the UofA with that. Pat Alexander was publications director then working for Bumps Tribolet. Her husband, Dick, was the entertainment editor for the Star. So, as teens at the UofA, my wife and I got to meet and have dinner with all the movie stars in town to make films, including Paul Newman when they made “Hombre”.
Valeski 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. Terry is an operating partner for Advent International Private Equity.
He also is vice chairman of T-Mobile in the Czech Republic and a 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 (NASDAQ) and Sonim Technologies. Over the course of his operating career Valeskihas 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-US (Consultant); Mattel Inc.; IN TV Corporation (US) and Teledyne Waterpik (US). He began his career at J. Walter Thompson advertising as a senior VP.
Valeski has remained active with his alma mater as 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 and a member of Sigma Chi Hall of Honor.