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QBE boss skewered by his own conduct code – Sydney Morning Herald
Insurance giant QBE’s chairman Mike Wilkins is facing a barrage of questions from shareholders, who want to know why the board has shown CEO Pat Regan the door.
At this stage the company is saying almost nothing, other than that the complaint on which its board has acted involves Regans “workplace communication”, the fact that he exercised “poor judgement” and that his case was the subject of an external investigation.
Meanwhile, piecing together the scraps of reliable information, we understand the complainant was female, worked several management rungs below Regan and out of its US office.
On this basis it walks and quacks like a duck – especially f…
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