Tony Palazzo

Tony Palazzo is the founder and chief executive of BerkeleyAccess, an Atlanta-based investment firm that comprises Berkeley Capital Partners, an SEC-registered investment adviser, and its affiliated private equity platform, Access Private Capital. The two businesses together oversee $1.2 billion in client assets across public-market portfolios for families, foundations, and endowments, as well as a growing platform of private equity and private credit funds.

Mr. Palazzo founded the firm in 2009 and has grown it alongside the same core team, compounding assets through investment returns and expanding the client base through referrals.

Access Private Capital today holds eight active investments across six asset classes, including single-family rental housing, private credit, semi-conductor, life science manufacturing, office, and small-cap equity. Across the platform, Mr. Palazzo has raised and deployed more than $170 million of investor capital and arranged over $140 million of institutional credit across nine facilities from seven independent bank and insurance lenders.

Mr. Palazzo’s career spans investment management, private capital formation, and corporate governance. He led the board-driven turnaround of an SBA 504 Certified Development Company from regulatory crisis to the largest such lender in the United States and served as chairman of an FDA-regulated medical device company. In 2024 he was the principal industry advocate behind Georgia House Bill 461, which added registered investment advisers to the state’s occupational tax exemption schedule, the first addition to that schedule in more than two decades.

Tony holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Furman University where he also played football on scholarship. He resides in Milton, GA with his wife and three sons.