Mike Gaudiani

Bio

Mike Gaudiani, managing partner, is experienced in managing, growing and investing in companies, including troubled operations as well as successful businesses facing important transitions. Mike formed Danville Partners, LLC in 2000. Mike has worked with public and privately held companies as well as with large institutional private equity firms and their portfolio companies in various roles including CEO, operating partner and advisor. Typically, his role focuses on leading a management team in addressing strategic and operating challenges including turnarounds and organic growth situations, acquisitions, business integrations, rationalization and divestiture situations. Mike is the former president of Teledyne Fluid Systems and Specialty Equipment, an international, diversified group of industrial companies, each of which became a leader in its niche of specialized equipment and components, including: gas springs, valves, pumps, hydraulic and pneumatic circuitry, tooling, and mobile material handling, construction and mining equipment. Prior to that, Gaudiani led other operating companies for Teledyne, Inc. including serving as president of Teledyne Farris Engineering, a leader in specialty pressure relief devices for the process industries, and executive vice president in the Teledyne Power Systems Group, a manufacturer of internal combustion engines for industrial and military applications. Prior to Teledyne, Mike worked at the General Motors Treasurer's Office in New York in international corporate finance and business development. He began his career at General Motors Corporation, starting as a production line supervisor in a vehicle assembly plant and moving on to other operations and planning positions for several GM divisions and staffs in the Detroit area. Mike currently serves on the boards of Simplimatic Automation, Mercury Plastics, Inc. and Arnco Corporation. He is the former chairman of the Cleveland Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and the former chairman of the Valve Manufacturers Association of America. He is a graduate of Haverford College in Haverford, PA and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.