Company: MKLY
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: S-1/A
Source: 0001213900-25-067524
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Company: McKinley Acquisition Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: S-1/A
Chunk 21
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 directors. Tommaso Breschi — Director Tommaso Breschi is a strategic, results -drivenexecutive with deep experience in private equity, corporate development, and M&A advisory. Over the past 15+ years, he has led acquisitions, operational transformations, and growth initiatives across the U.S., Europe, and Asia -Pacific, supporting both institutional investors and portfolio companies in unlocking long -termvalue. From 2017 to 2024, Tommaso served as Global Head of Corporate Development at Sodali & Co., a leading global advisory firm specializing in shareholder services, corporate governance, sustainability, and strategic communications. At Sodali, he played a key role in positioning the company for a successful sale to TPG. Working closely with family office investors, he led the company’s M&A strategy, executing multiple cross -borderacquisitions and expanding operations into the U.S., UK, and Australia. Following the TPG investment, he partnered with the sponsor team to double the size of the business through strategic acquisitions and operational scaling. Prior to Sodali, Tommaso co -foundedMC Square Capital (2015 – 2017), a merchant bank and broker -dealerfocused on advising family offices and mid -marketcompanies on capital raising and M&A transactions. MC Square was formed as a spin -offof 1055 Partners, a boutique investment banking group that operated from 2013 to 2015 within MLV & Co., where Tommaso worked to deliver financial advisory services to institutional investors and family offices across sectors. Earlier in his career, Tommaso worked in private equity at Sciens Capital (2008 – 2013), where he evaluated investments across business services, industrials, and financial services, and supported portfolio companies with growth planning, performance improvement, and exit strategies. From 2006 to 2008, he worked at Lazard in the M&A group in New York, where he supported clients on mergers, acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions. He first joined as a Summer Associate before transitioning to a full -timerole, gaining hands -onexperience in cross -borderdeal execution and strategic advisory across multiple industries. Tommaso began his professional journey at Accenture, where he focused on post -mergerintegration for pharmaceutical companies, including work on the integrations of Pfizer — Warner Lambert and Pfizer — Pharmacia in Italy. A collaborative and hands -onleader, Tommaso works closely with management teams, board members, and investors to define