Andre Palko was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug when at the age of 12
he began selling flower seeds and delivering grocery store flyers door-to-door in
his hometown of Frederick, MD. His intro to the printing industry came while he
was playing bass guitar for a New York City rock & roll band in 1980. The bands
lead singer/songwriter was part of a family printing business and it wasn’t long before Andre was packing boxes, running a folding machine, and learning the printing and bindery trade by day, while taking classes at Columbia University and playing clubs by night.

Rock and roll didn’t pay the bills so Andre stuck with the print industry, including a stint as owner/operator of a trade bindery as well as manager of a small commercial printing and copy operation. It was these 20+ years of hands-on operational and managerial experience that laid the foundation for the opportunity he seized on in 2002 in the form of a little-known folding machine device called the Tri-Creaser™.

Andre took the opportunity and ran with it, and today is President of Technifold USA with his wife and business partner Gina. Their company provides patented solutions and unique strategies that enable printers to get up to twice their normal yield from bindery and finishing equipment. Their customers include the top printing companies and finishing equipment manufacturers in the world.

Andre’s success at making printing and bindery companies more productive propelled Technifold USA to the ranks of the Inc. 5000 in 2009, gaining national recognition as one of the fastest growing private companies in America. This notable achievement comes at time when many businesses in this and other industries are shrinking.

For fun he pilots a Cessna 172 aircraft and musically has moved from the likes of New York clubs such as the famed CBGB’s to the church hall, playing bass and singing with a contemporary choir throughout New Jersey and with his church choir every Sunday. His daughter Meghan is a senior at the University of North Carolina.