Exclusive-Billionaire Generali investor weighs candidates for CEO challenge
One of Generali's biggest investors is considering challenging the reappointment of longstanding CEO Philippe Donnet in May and is weighing potential alternative candidates to lead Italy's biggest insurer, four sources close to the matter said. Three years ago Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, an Italian construction and publishing billionaire with a 6.9% stake in Generali led a failed attempt to replace Donnet, who had backing from the insurer's board and its biggest shareholder Mediobanca. Caltagirone, as well as the late billionaire Leonardo Del Vecchio, has criticised Donnet, at the helm of the insurer since 2016, for failing to grow Generali sufficiently.