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Rocky Daehler is an Investment Manager of Motorola Ventures, based in Schaumburg, IL. Rocky’s role includes identifying, executing and managing strategic investments in startup companies. Target startup companies will accelerate Motorola’s access to and implementation of leading-edge technology in order to drive sustainable, profitable growth for the corporation.
Prior to Motorola Ventures, Rocky spent 5 years in various strategic and product marketing roles within Motorola. Most recently, he led Motorola PCS’ product marketing efforts to a Top 5 CDMA wireless operator. During assignments in the corporate and PCS strategy offices, he led a variety of merger, acquisition, and partnership efforts as well as strategy formulation exercises. Prior to Motorola, Rocky worked at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Booz, Allen & Hamilton. There, Rocky participated in and led a number of strategy, business process re-engineering, engineering efficiency, and manufacturing productivity assignments with Fortune 500 companies.
In 1986, Rocky graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. He also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1993, graduating with honors. | 