It wishes to participate in the shareholders Pact

Banca Intesa and Sanpaolo IMI leaders who made the merger are all in the centre of networks overlapping except surprisingly the two Presidents, who were not well aware prior negotiation.

Giovanni Bazoli. The President of Banca Intesa believes this merger "Crown his career as a banker", which started 25 years ago with the rescue of the Ambrosiana Bank after the scandal of the P2 Lodge. The former Professor of law at the Faculty of Catholic in Milan, well connected with Romano Prodi, has constructed step by step Banca Intesa starting by merge Ambrosiana with Cattolica di Veneto and Cariplo. With Sanpaolo, he could finally conclude the alliance of major he dreamed, after the refusal of Capitalia, to build the first Italian banking group. But the ambitions of those who will inherit the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board does not stop there. The group is ready to make acquisitions abroad after the merger, he said recently.

Enrico Salza. Also round that Giovanni Bazoli is thin, the Chairman of Sanpaolo, Turin and Liberal, former industrial, sought out his provincialism group long. It is now made and it may lead to the conquest of new markets since his position as Chairman of the Executive Board. The merger between the Bank of Turin with Milan Bank equal is also, according to him, a matter of men. He was looking for a partner and the contact, he said, going well with the President of Intesa.

Corrado Passera. Managing Director of Banca Intesa first worked in the De Benedetti group before being appointed in Ambrosiano in 1996, and then at the head of Italian positions in 1998 by the first Prodi government. After privatisation, it was called at the head of Banca Intesa in 2002. A graduate of Bocconi Milan University and Wharton, which will remain Managing Director of the new group, sees the merger "a transaction growth and growth" which demonstrates that "the Italy is not condemned to the industrial and entrepreneurial dwarfism".

Fabrizio Iozzo. Director of Sanpaolo was appointed to the General surprise in the Presidency of the Caisse des Dépôts and the loans by the Government, which will prevent him to hold the position of Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board reserved to him. The banker, who made his career at the Bank of Turin, is seen as a political purpose. It has friendly ties to brothers Padoa-Schioppa, which is the Minister of the economy of Romano Prodi. He has supported and completed the merger but wishes to develop other projects at the head of the Fund. The position he left vacant could, except the Antitrust veto, return to Antoine Bernheim, the pattern of Generali.

Romain Zaleski. Ally of Giovanni Bazoli, businessman of franco-polonaise origin is present in all the companies concerned by the merger, starting with Generali. It wishes to participate in the shareholders Pact. In the meantime, he just lend a hand to the supporters of the merger with Sanpaolo IMI. In the case where it should contain the disaffected party, taken by the Spanish giant Santander.