Technology >> Analyst Interviews >> October 13, 2003
MATTHEW I. GROWNEY is a co-Founder and Managing Director of Motorola
Ventures, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His role is to actively
review, invest, and manage the global minority equity opportunities
strategic to Motorola's core and emerging businesses including
communications and embedded solutions. Such key areas of investment
include interactive television, home networking, personal area networks,
energy solutions and embedded software. Prior to co-founding Motorola
Ventures, he successfully completed three diverse positions as a
Commodities Buyer with Motorola's Land Mobile Product Sector, Corporate
Development Analyst at Nippon Motorola Limited in Tokyo, Japan, and as
the Business Analyst for Motorola's Corporate Strategy -Business
Development office. His primary responsibilities included management of
unsolicited deal flow, investment tracking, and merger and acquisition
analysis. Transactions in which Mr. Growney participated include the
acquisitions of Indala (Motorola's current Bistatix technology), Pro-log
Computer (part of Motorola's Computer Group), and the equity investment
in Starfish (of Motorola's PCS Smart & Connected Group). In 1999, Mr.
Growney also conducted cyber-law, e-commerce and domain name legal
review on behalf of HSD Ernst & Young- France in Paris, France. Mr.
Growney has studied C++ Programming at Harvard University and
International Civil Law at the University of San Jose in Costa Rica. He
graduated from Michigan State University and possesses a Juris Doctor
degree from the New England School of Law in Boston. He sits on the
Boards of Xanboo and Sportvision (creator of NFL's Yellow 1st & Ten
Line). He also sits on the Board of Advisors for the Global Venture
Network in New York City and Shanghai, as well as Capital Venue of
Boston. Additionally, he is Vice President of the Corporate Venturing
Consortium for MIT's Sloan School EDP program. Outside of Motorola, he
is a Board Director for TodoBebe, a young media company serving young
families throughout Latin America and involved in various charities
serving Boston's homeless. Profile
Mr. Growney: Motorola Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of
Motorola. We are roughly a $100 million-a-year investor
