EVS Broadcast Equipment : Patrick Tillieux appointed as new Chairman of the Board of Directors of EVS

Publication on May 17, 2016, 5.45pm CET
Regulated information - combined general meeting
EVS Broadcast Equipment SA: Euronext Brussels (EVS.BR), Bloomberg (EVS BB), Reuters (EVSB.BR)

  
EVS Broadcast Equipment SA, the leading provider of live video production systems, today announced the appointment of Patrick Tillieux as new Chairman of its Board of Directors.

During its last meeting, the Board of Directors of EVS appointed Patrick Tillieux as Chairman of the Board of Directors of EVS. He succeeds Pierre Rion (permanently representing Acces Direct sa, and Chairman of EVS between 2010 and today), whose mandate arrived at its term at the end of the Ordinary General Meeting of today.

"All members of the Board of Directors join me to thank Pierre Rion, Chairman of the Board from 2010 until today, for all the work accomplished during these 13 years," said Patrick Tillieux, new Chairman of the Board of Directors of EVS. "My goal is of course to continue this work, while bringing my long experience in the broadcast industry to our CEO Muriel De Lathouwer and her management team".

Patrick Tilleux is an independent Director of EVS since November 2015. He is a non-Executive Director in various companies: Euronews (France), PLAY Telecom (Poland), Ceske Radiokomunikace (Czech Republic), Towercom (Slovakia) and Brussels Airport (Belgium). Between 2012 and 2014, he served as Director & CEO of Red Bee Media Ltd. (global broadcast and media services provider, now part of Ericsson), driving and operating a strategic turnaround and a successful financial restructuring of the company. He was Chief Operating Officer and a Member of Executive Board at ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG between 2007 and 2009. From 2001 to 2007, he held various executive functions within the SBS group (CEO of SBS Belgium, CEO of SBS Nederland and lastly CEO of SBS Broadcasting Europe). Before that, he occupied executive functions within different broadcasters, including Eurosport, TF1, RTL Nederland, CANAL+ Holland and CANAL+ Flanders. He holds a M. Sc. in civil engineering and a M. Sc. in industrial administration from the University of Leuven (Belgium).