Mancini•Duffy Heads for its Second Century with Confidence in Growth

Recent Hires in Business Development, Marketing, & Leadership of Law Firm Practice Support the Firm’s Strategic Plan

As Mancini•Duffy gears up for its 100th anniversary in 2015, the firm has given its strategic plan a strong foundation with several important new hires: Morgan Gorospe, Business Development Director; Kristin Valente, Marketing Director; and Stephen Gertz, who will co-share leadership of the law firm practice with Dina Frank.

Ted S. Hammer, Mancini•Duffy President, said, “There’s no question that Mancini•Duffy is hitting the ground running into its next 100 years. Our new strategic plan balances prudence with boldness: we are capitalizing on our historic strengths and excited about our near-term growth.”

Hammer, himself a relative new-comer to Mancini•Duffy, notes, too, that the firm’s ability to attract exceptional talent is a measure of wide-spread confidence in its future. “I joined Mancini•Duffy a year and a half ago because I saw such terrific opportunity and wanted to help realize it. Then last year, Christian Giordano came on board as Principal and Director of Architecture and is making building design a powerful and growing part of our practice. Now,” Hammer says, “three more experienced and gifted professionals are lending their skills and enthusiasm to our business development.”

Morgan Gorospe has 13 years’ experience in business development and project management for leading construction management firms including Structure Tone, Swinerton Builders and Perini. She has not only had great success in introducing new business, but in developing excellent long-term relationships with clients. In addition to a BA in Fine Arts/Emphasis in Interior Design from the University of Southern California, Morgan holds a Graduate Degree in Construction Planning & Management from UCLA. She is an active member of the New York Building Congress, CoreNet, USGBC, and ASHE.

Kristin Valente comes to Mancini•Duffy with more than a decade in marketing, as marketing coordinator for Perkins Eastman for seven years and, more recently, as Northeast Regional Marketing Coordinator for the civil and environmental engineering firm of Greeley and Hansen. A graduate of the University of Vermont with a BA in English, Kristin co-chairs the SMPS New York Chapter Professional Development Committee.

Stephen Gertz is a widely recognized expert in the design of corporate offices, with particular expertise and extensive experience with law firms. During his nearly four decades as Executive Vice President and Principal with Keiser Associates, he brought to that firm, designed, and managed a broad range of law firm projects. His success in developing working relationships—some as much as 20 years long—with his clients has led many of them to follow him to Mancini•Duffy, where he can effectively continue to serve them in a larger, more diversified firm with a strong history of quality design and service. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame.

All three of these professionals have expressed their excitement at joining Mancini•Duffy because of the firm’s excellent history, its vision going forward, its focus on the practice of architecture and interior design, and its Center for Workplace Innovation. They look forward to telling the firm’s story.