Angelo La Duca

Angelo La Duca

Director of Pre-Sales, SEMEA at Kofax

Rome Area, Italy

Current
  • Sr. Director of Pre-Sales, SEMEA at Kofax
Past
  • Pre Sales Manager at 3i - Industria Italiana Informatica
  • Software Engineer at NICA
  • Senior Programmer at SPS
Education
  • Harvard Business School
  • Istituto Europeo di Design
  • Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
Connections
287 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Angelo La Duca’s Summary

- Seasoned professional with sound sales management and marketing experience.
- 20 years in the Document Management industry with strong knowledge of the market dynamics and Business processes
- International experience and multi cultural management

Angelo La Duca’s Specialties:

Large account strategic relations (C level)
Proven visionary business process re engineering capabilities
Solid International management and sales management ability
Strong skills in mapping technology capabilities into business advantage for a specific customer/process


Angelo La Duca’s Experience

  • Sr. Director of Pre-Sales, SEMEA

    Kofax

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; KFX; Computer Software industry)

    September 2008Present (4 months)

    Lead pre-sales efforts for high-profile, strategic opportunities, including business process understanding and positioning, C-level engagement and customised solution design.
    Overview the (regional) business opportunities from a strategic marketing perspective and engage with the right partners to help market share growth.
    Monitor the channel and partner knowledge and develop the necessary initiatives to grant them the correct knowledge to sell the full Kofax portfolio.
    Manage the regional resource pool of Sales Engineers, Solution Architects and Business Consultants.

  • Senior Solution Manager, Global

    Kofax Image Products

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; KFX; Computer Software industry)

    July 2007August 2008 (1 year 2 months)

    Member of a strategic team with worldwide responsibilities for identifing solutions to specific business processes. Solutions will be created leveraging several parts of Kofax products portfolio as well as integration of 3rd party components.
    In charge for the Banking & Financial Serices group, define message and positioning, GTM for the specific solutions and serve as evangelist and trainer for internal and external stakeholders..

  • GTM Strategy Manager, EMEA

    Kofax Image Products

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DCM.L; Computer Software industry)

    December 2006July 2007 (8 months)

    Define the EMEA Go To Market Strategy for the new generation of SOA components for image and data capture and unified communications.
    Evangelize the EMEA management and salesforce on the new SOA approach.
    Identify and enagage with Early Adopter for using the SOA new components in specific business processes.

  • Regional Sales Director, SEMEA & BENELUX

    Kofax Image Products

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; DCM.L; Computer Software industry)

    October 2000December 2006 (6 years 3 months)

    Sales and Marketing responsibilities for Southern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Benelux area.
    Managing remote sales teams for expanding our Certified Reseller base in the several regions.
    Achieved a constant growth of Reseller base over the years and increased 15 times (1500%) the revenue of the Capture software sales, closing the Fiscal Year with 10,2 Million Euros result.

  • Pre Sales Manager

    3i - Industria Italiana Informatica

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 1999October 2000 (1 year 2 months)

    Responsible for Staffware Workflow products
    Pre Sales engagements with end users for Business Process Analysis and Rengineering
    Manager of the workflow implementation team

  • Software Engineer

    NICA

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Services industry)

    December 1990September 1999 (8 years 10 months)

    Architect and developer of an document imaging platform (IMAGO)
    CoDesigner of a Multichanell capture system (OPUS)
    Product Manager of an HW device for imprinting paper documents inside several scanners (ENDORSCAN)

  • Senior Programmer

    SPS

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 1987December 1990 (3 years 1 month)

    Developer in charge of creating document management applications based on LaserData LaserVision and Corvette systems.
    Responsabile for creating image processing and recognition components.


Angelo La Duca’s Education

  • Harvard Business School

    Leadership, Sales & Marketing, Finance 20052006

    HBS Teachers: Boris Groysberg, Das Narayandas, Paul Healy

    Activities and Societies:
    Dicom Academy Program
  • Istituto Europeo di Design

    Diploma, Photography and Visual Communication, 19831985

    Specialized in B&W and Computer Photography Integration

    Activities and Societies:
    AIRF - Associazione Italiana Reporters Fotografi
  • Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'

    Engineering 19811983

    Only the first 2 years of the course


Additional Information

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Angelo La Duca’s Interests:

Photography, Skiing, Tennis, Sailing, Rock Music

Angelo La Duca’s Groups:

ManagerItalia, AIIM, ACM, IEEE

  •    Content Management Professionals
  •    Kofax Alumni
  •    Business Process Professionals
  •    The Document Imaging Group
  •    1st Class Professionals
  •    Document Capture Users

Angelo La Duca’s Honors:

President Club Awards 2002, 2004, 2005
Best EMEA Sales Person of the Year 2005


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