Company

1995

Beginning

When it all started

Riccardo Gambarotto, José Diniz, and Ricardo K founded GDK & Associates, the first consultancy with a focus on project implementation, a pioneering model that proved to be very aligned with the desires of skeptical business owners and executives with the effectiveness of traditional consultancy projects.

1997

Expansion

A bit of our history

The continued success of GDK attracts Edson Vaz Musa, known for his successful career leading Rhodia for over 10 years, to join the company which is now called MGDK & Associates. In this move, two new divisions are created in addition to the consulting division: interim management and new businesses.

1998

New Owners

The definitive leap

Monitor Co., a company owned by Michael Porter and other Harvard professors, acquires MGDK as a strategy for entering Brazil.

2012

New Phase

RGF is born

Riccardo Gambarotto (RG) decides to invite Gian Filli (GF), former consultant at GDK, MGDK, and Monitor, to create a reinterpretation of the old GDK: the first consultancy to work with a owner's perspective, that is, also aimed at skeptical entrepreneurs and executives with the effectiveness of traditional consultancy projects. Thus the RGF is born.

2020

Jaraguá Capital

New Futures

With the exponential success of RGF, achieved with dozens of business transformations over its first 8 years of life, Jaraguá Capital is born, the investment arm of RGF, with the acquisition of Fedrigoni Brasil Papéis, which became Blendpaper, manufacturer of banknote paper (the only one in Latin America), security papers (used for passports, visas, bank checks, tax documents, meal vouchers, etc.) and a wide range of special papers (artistic and graphic).