Top Manager Reputation: Messina returns to the top. Orcel and Descalzi also make the podium.

The banking game of risk reshapes the top positions in the October Top Manager Reputation (www.topmanagers.it). Carlo Messina (91.68) takes first place, gaining three spots, with Intesa Sanpaolo ever closer to conquering MPS. Andrea Orcel (91.61) of Unicredit follows just seven hundredths behind, following the ECB's green light for the acquisition of Commerzbank. Claudio Descalzi (91.48) is third, at the center of the energy debate with Eni's price cap on fuel, the Green & Net Zero Talk, and the Italian Energy Summit. Pier Silvio Berlusconi (90.69) is fourth, buoyed by MFE's strong half-year results. Matteo Del Fante (82.50) is up two places in fifth, with Poste Italiane rising to 85.823% of TIM; then Renato Mazzoncini (82.43), between investments, employment and energy transition of A2A, Urbano Cairo (80.26), Alessandro Benetton (78.36), who enters with Edizione in the takeover bid on MPS and advances also thanks to the international expansion of 21 Next, Pietro Labriola (77.30), with the TIM-Poste integration and AI projects, and Luca de Meo (77.22). In 11th place Pierroberto Folgiero (74.10), +4 thanks to new contracts and international agreements of Fincantieri; followed by Claudio Andrea Gemme (71.06), Gian Maria Mossa (70.82), +1, Cristina Scocchia (70.66), Luca Dal Fabbro (70.65), +1, and Marina Berlusconi (70.62), +4 with strong visibility linked to the naming of Malpensa airport after Silvio Berlusconi and the initiatives for the 90th anniversary of her father's birth. Completing the Top 20 are Giuseppe Castagna (66.54), Fabrizio Palermo (66.39), both +1, Miuccia Prada (65.89), +5, and Gianpiero Strisciuglio (65.78), +2. In the Top 200, Dario Scannapieco (21st, +5) stands out, with CDP's first Investor Day and meetings with Gulf investors; Antonio Filosa (23rd, +5), on concept cars and Stellantis' industrial strategies; Carlo Cimbri (29th, +5), who strengthens Unipol's position in MPS; Marcello Cattani (34th, +5), among pharmaceutical investments and research; Giovanni Gorno Tempini (36th, +8), protagonist of the CDP Investor Day; Diego Nepi Molineris (40th, +5), among America's Cup and investments in sports infrastructure; Brunello Cucinelli (42nd, +6), supported by results and Fashion Week; Lorenzo Mariani  (56th, +7) of Leonardo with the central theme of defense;  Tommaso Tanzilli (57th, +9); Luigi Cantamessa (59th, +12); and Vinicio Mosè Vigilante (64th, +3), who are committed to disseminating the opportunities of the energy transition. Also making significant gains are Stefano Cuzzilla (67th, +17), Arrigo Giana (68th, +20), John Elkann (71st, +15), Elena Goitini (79th, +14), Sergio Solero (97th, +15), Sergio Marullo di Condojanni (107th, +17), Alessandro Rivera (135th, +23), and Andrea Missori (151st, +24).