Telecom Italia CEO Is Said to Risk Ouster on Strategy Clash

The open conflict between two warring investors in Telecom Italia SpA is finally catching up with Chief Executive Officer Amos Genish. Genish’s job is now at risk because company directors representing Elliott Management Corp. are impatient with his lack of progress in turning around the former phone monopoly, according to people familiar with the matter. While the U.S. activist investor wants Telecom Italia to make changes like selling a stake in its towers company and a full spinoff of the phone network, Genish has been resistant, instead focusing on a strategy of organic growth, said the people, who asked not to be identified as the deliberations are private.