Shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis dies at 89
WASHINGTON — The brash shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis, who owned stock in more than 80 public companies and rarely failed to make her presence known at corporate-investor meetings, has died. She was 89.
For decades, Davis was notorious among executives at blue-chip companies for raising a ruckus at annual meetings, sometimes turning the typically staid affairs into yelling matches.
Simultaneously confrontational and flirty, she would demand that a CEO resign, while letting on that she found the executive to be attractive.
Davis relished attention, good or bad.