Bob Fealy

Bob Fealy is founding managing director of Limerick Investments. For over two decades, he has been involved with early stage technology companies, having founded Duchossois Technology Partners and serving as Chairman of the Illinois Innovation Accelerator Fund and Chicago Ventures. In 1986, he co-founded Chicago’s first Chinese-American Bank, New Asia Bancorp, which became one of Chicago’s largest minority-owned businesses. He currently is a member of the board of directors and executive and strategy committees of Churchill Downs, Inc (NASDAQ: CHDN) and is lead director of Pella Corporation. Fealy recently co-founded with his daughter Live Grit Multisport, Chicago’s “laid-back triathlon center” in the West Loop. He is a founding board member and chairman of the Illinois Venture Capital Association and is a member of its Political Action Committee. He was awarded the 2010 Richard J. Daley Medal for his contributions to the Illinois venture capital and private equity community.

His current not-for-profit work includes serving as chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Cincinnati Foundation, chair of the board of directors of the Chicago Children’s Choir, board member and co-chair of the capital campaign of The Morton Arboretum, a partner in Social Venture Partners, an advisory board member of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School, and a member of the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business Advisory Council, which awarded him the 2009 Carl H. Lindner Award for Outstanding Business Achievement. Fealy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Commercial Science degree from the University in 2013 and he is a certified public accountant (inactive), as well as a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Executives’ Club and the National Venture Capital Association.