Who are the GreenWood “Americans” elected to Leonardo’s board of directors?
Here are the names and curricula of the GreenWood candidates who have joined Leonardo's new board of directors
All four candidates from GreenWood Investors, the US investment company that represents the shareholders GreenWood Builders Fund II, Sachem Head and Banor Sicav, joined Leonardo's board of directors chaired by Stefano Pontecorvo and led by CEO Roberto Cingolani. Mistral Long Short Equity, for a total share of 1.55 per cent. The new board of the defense and aerospace group therefore sees the presence of Giancarlo Ghislanzoni, Silvia Stefini, Dominique Levy and Steven Wood, founder of GreenWood.
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THE CURRICULUM OF GIANCARLO GHISLANZONI
As stated on his LinkedIn profile, Giancarlo Ghislanzoni ( in the photo ) was born in 1960 and worked for thirty-three years, from 1987 to 2020, in the strategic consulting firm McKinsey & Company, which finally designated him senior partner emeritus. He is considered an expert in change management processes (turnaround, integrations, globalization) and operational improvement programs.
From 2011 to 2016 he was head of the Advanced Industries Sector division of McKinsey in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East and Africa): he was involved in aerospace and defence, automotive and assembly, plant engineering and industrial electronics.
He holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Genoa and a master's degree in business administration from INSEAD, the French business management school.
THE ISS PRAISES GHISLANZONI
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), one of the main proxy advisor companies that advise investment funds on how to vote in meetings where they are shareholders, had spent very positive words for the GreenWood list and in particular for the figure of Ghislanzoni.
“Ghislanzoni”, wrote Iss, “has worked for Leonardo for over twenty years on many of its major development and improvement projects across most of its business portfolio and has a deep knowledge of the A&D sector thanks to his work for other major operators of the sector".
“Ghislanzoni is a high-level candidate”, he concluded, “with deep and relevant experience in the sector, which could help improve the operational efficiency of the various divisions of the company and advise management on optimizing Leonardo's portfolio”.
SILVIA STEFINI'S CURRICULUM
Silvia Stefini is currently (since 2020) independent director of Renantis, the energy company formerly known as Falck Renewables, and chief risk officer (since 2021) of the Equor Capital Partners fund.
She began her career as a financial markets analyst for Standard & Poor's (1989-1990), and after a short period at Oxera Consulting she joined McKinsey (1992-1997): she was involved in strategy and finance projects for European clients , focusing in particular on the chemical, energy, pharmaceutical, banking and infrastructure sectors.
In 1997 she moved to the US company General Electric, of which she was (from 1999 to 2003) non-executive director of the Italian division GE Capital Services srl; then director of the Structured Finance and Project Financing – Oil & Gas division of General Electric (2001-2004); then again General Manager of GE Power, a group company dedicated to energy, from 2004 to 2017.
From 2019 to 2022 Stefini held the position of independent director in Italgas.
She graduated in 1988 in Economics from Bocconi, took a master's degree in Corporate Finance from the City, University of London and studied Corporate Governance at INSEAD.
DOMINIQUE LEVY'S CURRICULUM
Dominique Levy is a non-executive chairman of CDAM, an investment management firm with $1.5 billion in assets, and a non-executive director of Safe Deposit Bank of Norway, a Norwegian infrastructure bank.
He has a master's degree from Columbia Business School.
ALL ABOUT GREENWOOD INVESTORS
GreenWood Investors is a privately held New York-based investment firm.
It was founded in 2010 by Steven Wood, a former analyst for Carr Securities. The team includes, since 2015, Kveta Giertl (she also worked for Carr Securities) and, since 2018, Chris Torino (former vice president of Lazard Asset Management).
According to CapEdge , GreenWood Investors has $118.1 million in assets under management. The hedge fund GreenWood Builders Fund II, present in Leonardo, has a value of 12.2 million.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/greenwood-consiglio-amministrazione-leonardo/ on Wed, 10 May 2023 13:39:35 +0000.