Biography
Mr. Magnani is Managing Partner for M&A Executive Search and Consulting. He has worked in professional services leadership roles for 25+ years serving a broad number of industries. Since 2014, Mr Magnani has been focused on providing clients the expertise they need to advance their business either via National Executive Search or Placing Interim Executives or Expert Freelance consultants.
Mr. Magnani joined M&A in 2017 and was primarily responsible for building M&A’s highly successful Interim Executive and Expert Consulting business enabling M&A to be one of the few providers that can offer both executive search and interim executives and consultants enabling clients to flexibly and affordably get the expertise they need to advance their business. Mr. Magnani is considered an expert in enabling the “Gig Economy” helping effectively bridge freelance consultants that have “been there and done that” into companies and is a frequent speaker on how both employers and professionals can most effectively leverage the “Gig Economy”
Prior to M&A Executive Search and Consulting, he was with Patina Solutions and was a founding member of the Minneapolis office that grew the business from start-up to $2M+. Prior to Patina, he spent 20 years in senior leadership roles, successfully growing several professional service businesses. Prior to this General Management experience Mr. Magnani spent over 5 years with McKinsey & Co. Throughout his career, Mr. Magnani has been successful in building and growing new professional service businesses from start-up to high value client focused organizations.
He holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Management in Marketing and Finance from Northwestern’s J.L. Kellogg School of Business.