Senior Partners with specific operational management expertise and experienced in 20 different industrial sectors

 

Our Executives fill positions like CEO, CRO, CFO, COO, etc., often sitting in the Board of Directors

A network of 2.500 experienced senior-level professionals with proven track records in handling complex business situations that require rapid transformation

Duke&Kay consists of Senior Partners with proven multi-year experience in top positions and experienced in 20 different industrial sectors

Different skills and experiences joint together by a solid and shared value system, the passion for our work and above all the strong will to contribute in a tangible way to the recovery of the economy of our country.

Passion and Competence

Our Team is a mix of passion and competence, with a specialized expertise across a wide range of Industries and a distinctive knowledge of different market sectors working for: both small and medium-sized as well as large companies and multinationals.

In particular, it is a group of high-level Executives who have held C-level roles as well as specialists such as Finance, Production, Sales and Logistics.

Our Professionals are Managers who have already accomplished to their personal career objectives, enjoyed top positions and reached major results. They need to get satisfactions from what they do and are quite happy to transfer their experiences to young Managers, helping to set up a “high performance” ruling class for the future.

The key ethical values linked with the rescue of distressed Companies and supporting a generational change are extremely important as well.

Duke&Kay Partners have, as average, more than 25 years of experience in leading and managing businesses and complex situations, both in Italian and International Groups/Companies. Moreover, the Valtus Alliance international network and their careers can assure a strong worldwide client companies’ relationship and high-level contacts.

Their talent to understand clients’ businesses and specific requirements, when the Company or its divisions are underperforming or need to Improve Performances, ensure to solve creatively organizational and project related issues to achieve major goals.

Each team member shares a result-oriented culture, pragmatism, experience, specific skills and established methodologies.

 

The result is always tangible and measurable. 

 

Each Duke&Kay Partner, working closely with the companies, shares risks and results. Therefore, he/she applies a rewarding system to rule the fees.

Leadership Team

Maurizio Ria

Managing Partner

Maurizio Ria

Managing Partner
With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, a Master’s in Business Administration from SDA Bocconi and an early career in Finance and Controlling, he is used to role such as Chairman/President, CEO / CFO / CRO and member of various Boards of Directors Maurizio is an Executive Manager with experience gained in various industrial sectors operating by mass production or production to order: Machinery, Food, Aviation/Defence, Chemical/ Pharma, FMCG, Media / Publishing, Logistics, Trading and Shipping industries. Fields in which he has successfully led important transformation processes. After an early career in Finance and Control, he held top positions in Reckitt & Colman, Rizzoli Corriere della Sera, CoeClerici, ASW Farmaceutici, Domopan, Getronics. He is one of the founders of Duke&Kay, and since 2004 he has mainly worked with Private Equity Funds, leading both development (Performance Improvement) and industrial e financial Restructuring projects. In the last few years, he has successfully led, directly or through the selected Executives / Partners, some of the major Restructuring and Turnaround projects in terms of size and complexity (Azelis, Lucchini, Tekfor, Targetti, Mosaicon, Seves, Metalcam), due to the crisis that hit all sectors since 2008. Thanks to these experiences, he is in contact with the heads of Restructuring and Corporate departments of the most important European Banks and the main Financial Advisors and International Law Offices.

Paola Mucci

HR Partner

Paola Mucci

HR Partner
With more than 20 years’ experience in Human Resources Management, Paola worked for several middle-large companies in challenging contexts of various organizational and strategic complexity, covering different industries. She focused her attention on the search and selection processes, assessment centers, headhunting, to provide clients with permanent or interim management solutions. Paola started her career in a financial services company as Area Manager North Italy/HR Manager in charge of the start-up of all the agencies in north Italy. With 2 master degree in Human Resources Management and more than 15 years in the world of HR international consulting firms, to date she is the HR Equity Partner of Duke&Kay. Together with the management Team involved in a Duke&Kay restructuring or a performance improvement project, she is involved in the redefinition process of the organizational structure as far as Human Resources issues. Moreover, she is responsible for the search and selection of Executives involved in Duke&Kay projects, for Talents Acquisition strategy and she supports Client Companies with Permanent or Interim Management solutions. Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures at “La Sapienza” University in Rome. She speaks English and French fluently. 2015 – ongoing HR Equity Partner DUKE&KAY – Business Partner TTI Success Insights 2005 – 2015 HR Specialist EIM – Executive Interim Management 2004 – 2005 HR Consultant PRAXI 1995 – 2003 Area Manager North Italy & HR Manager FRAMA (Financial Services)   <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14776" src="https://dukekay.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/aidp.png" alt="" width="200" />       <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-14499" src="https://dukekay.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TTI_logo_horiz_corallo.png" alt="" width="242" height="60" />