The CEO and country manager of Generali Deutschland, Giovanni Liverani, has been included among the 100 most important managers in Germany, and is the only Italian in the ranking. Liverani's name appears in 56th place in the ranking of German companies drawn up by the business magazine "Deutschland Manager".
In first place among the CEOs is the leader of the Volkswagen automotive industry, Herbert Diess, followed by the CEO of Daimler Mercedes, Dieter Zetsche, who left the position a few days ago. Instead, he finished third
the CEO of the distribution giant Scwharz/Lidl, Klaus Gehrig. The XNUMX classified top managers are almost all German, less than ten are foreign.
Liverani, aged 54, has carried out his entire career internally
at Generali, he has been CEO in Germany since 2015 (the Lion's main business unit abroad with around 14 billion in premiums and over
8 employees, and is the second largest operator on the market). In the last 4 years the manager, who grew up in Verona and arrived in Trieste after graduating in engineering from the Milan Polytechnic,
led a profound transformation of Generali Deutschland which made it possible to significantly increase the company's profitability and dividends and to position the Group as a leader in innovation and distribution capacity. The last complex operation was the recent sale of Generali Leben which brought in proceeds of over 1,7 billion euros. Generali now has an ambitious growth plan in Germany as part of the Generali 2021 strategy.
In the 90s Liverani was among the founders of Genertel, the leading online insurer in Italy, to then deal extensively with German-speaking countries and central Europe.
From 2013 to 2015 he was Regional CEO of the Europe, Middle East, Africa area before arriving in Munich in April 2015 at the head of Germany.
