Who is aiming for Tim’s presidency? Does the first name tick?
Facts and rumors about Tim's next president
The big games are underway in view of the renewal of Tim's presidency, in the meantime the group's shareholding and governance are always in tension due to the criticisms and protests of the largest shareholder, the French of Vivendi, with respect to the plans (primarily the one on the network ) of the group led by the CEO, Pietro Labriola.
According to what Ansa wrote in recent days, the former general director of the Bank of Italy Salvatore Rossi is not available for a new mandate as president of the TLC group. Also because, sector sources add, no one has bothered to reapply Rossi.
It was one of the longest mandates at the top of Tim in the last 20 years, as Mf/Milano Finanza recently underlined: Rossi in fact arrived at Tim in 2019 after a long career in the Bank of Italy, from which he left with the position of general director, being co-opted mid-term and confirmed in the role in the 2021 renewal of the board of directors.
The meeting for the renewal of the board of directors and the approval of the budget is scheduled for 23 April 2024.
Among the rumors also among some of Tim's directors, the name of Paolo Boccardelli, current independent member of the board and also president of Tim's Related Parties Committee, is also circulating as a hypothesis.
Boccardelli is director of the “Franco Fontana” Change Strategies Research Center at Luiss University, as well as being a full professor of Business Economics and Management and Business Strategies at the same Confindustria university, and was director of Lulss Business School from 2015 to May 2022.
According to the reconstruction of Start Magazine , Boccardelli's name would not find favor with Vivendi, which therefore would not vote for him in the meeting of next April 24th when the board of directors will be renewed with the approval of the budget.
And the shareholder Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, controlled by the Ministry of Economy? In government circles it is noted that Boccardelli was recently replaced at the top of Covisoc, the supervisory commission for professional football clubs. Surprisingly replaced because before the expiry of the mandate (the four-year mandate ends next June) and "with a government endorsement, it is said in football circles, therefore not only at the hands of the leaders of the FIGC chaired by Gabriele Gravina".
Furthermore, in the area around Palazzo Chigi there has also been an echo of an indiscretion (true?): Boccardelli would be among the names positively evoked by Luigi Bisignani in place of Salvatore Rossi in Tim. This simple voice was enough to send the hard and pure Melonians into fibrillation given the acrimony now clear – as written by Il Foglio – towards alleged or self-styled lobbyists like Bisignani.
But the real news – hoping it's a hoax – would be that Bisignani still has an even minimal say in these appointments. In what capacity? Oh to know.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/chi-punta-alla-presidenza-di-tim-spunta-il-primo-nome/ on Fri, 12 Jan 2024 11:13:39 +0000.