Eutelsat Announces Appointment of Andrew Wallace as Chief Commercial Officer
PARIS, July 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced the appointment of Andrew Wallace as Chief Commercial Officer. Andrew has been appointed to head up Eutelsat's overall sales and marketing activities. His role will include leadership of the Group's infrastructure and Value-Added Services businesses. This includes the multi-national commercial teams serving markets for broadcast, data and government services from Eutelsat's headquarters in Paris and from offices across Europe, and in Asia, North and South America. It also covers sales, marketing and product development of the Value-Added Services business, which provides turnkey professional and consumer broadband solutions.
Eutelsat also announces that Olivier Millies-Lacroix, who joined Eutelsat in 1991, and who has held various responsibilities including heading the commercial department, will leave the company this month to pursue other interests in the media and telecoms sectors.
Commenting on Andrew's arrival, Michel de Rosen, Eutelsat CEO said: "We welcome the vast amount of commercial experience and knowledge of the media and telecommunications markets that Andrew brings to Eutelsat. At the head of a team assembling some of the most skilled and knowledgeable experts in the industry, he is well equipped to take Eutelsat into the next stage of its commercial expansion and maturity, supporting our significant in-orbit investment programme". He added: "I wish to thank Olivier for his valuable contributions to Eutelsat's remarkable success story and wish him well in his new professional pursuits."
Prior to joining Eutelsat, Andrew's previous commercial appointments include Marketing Director at Pace plc, the world's largest digital TV set-top-box developer, and different positions at Cable & Wireless based in Paris, London and Singapore offices, working on B2B and consumer telecommunications services.
Andrew is a graduate in maths, physics and engineering from Cambridge University and holds an MBA from INSEAD. He has dual British/Irish nationality.
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About Eutelsat Communications
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL, ISIN code: FR0010221234) is the holding company of Eutelsat S.A.. With capacity commercialised on 26 satellites that provide coverage over the entire European continent, as well as the Middle East, Africa, India and significant parts of Asia and the Americas, Eutelsat is one of the world's three leading satellite operators in terms of revenues. At 31 March 2010, Eutelsat's satellites were broadcasting more than 3,500 television channels. More than 1,100 channels broadcast via its HOT BIRD(TM) video neighbourhood at 13 degrees East which serves over 120 million cable and satellite homes in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The Group's satellites also serve a wide range of fixed and mobile telecommunications services, TV contribution markets, corporate networks, and broadband markets for Internet Service Providers and for transport, maritime and in-flight markets. Eutelsat's broadband subsidiary, Skylogic, markets and operates access to high speed internet services through teleports in France and Italy that serve enterprises, local communities, government agencies and aid organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. Headquartered in Paris, Eutelsat and its subsidiaries employ nearly 650 commercial, technical and operational employees from 28 countries.
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