Alexis George takes the hottest ejector seat in corporate Australia

Shock exits are the AMP way. It’s a history that poisons it and helped create the diminished company that she comes to lead.

The Sydney headquarters of the 172-year-old legend floats between two worlds. Rhett Wyman

Pamela WilliamsWriter-at-large

Updated Jul 29, 2021 – 8.01am, first published at 5.00am

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When Alexis George joins AMP on Monday next week, this third chief executive in three years takes the hottest ejector seat in corporate Australia, in an organisation stained by blood and boardroom coups.

The once-mighty AMP today is twisting in the hand of fate.

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Pamela WilliamsWriter-at-largePamela Williams is The Australian Financial Review’s writer-at-large. She is an investigative reporter and author, and has won six Walkley Awards and the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award.