Lyon-based international news broadcaster Euronews has a new single operating company, Euronews SA. Agreed by the general shareholders’ meeting in December, Euronews SA is formed by the merger of SECEMIE SA and SOCEMIE SA, respectively the former publishing and operating companies.
The merger has also brought with it a new governance organisation, comprising a Supervisory Board and an Executive Committee.
Three individuals and nine shareholding public television channels sit on the Supervisory Board:
- Mr. Pier Luigi Malesani (President of NewCo Rai International)
- Mr. Andrey Bystritsky (Chairman of the Broadcasting Company “The Voice of Russia” and Advisor of the Director General of VGTRK)
- Ms. Stéphanie Martin (Director of diversification and thematic channels at France Télévisions)
FRANCE TELEVISIONS (France), represented by Ms. Laurence Schwob- RAI (Italy), represented by Mr. Stefano Luppi
- RTR (Russia), represented by Mr. Oleg Kuprianov
- SSR (Switzerland), represented by Mr. Willi Burkhalter
- RTP (Portugal), represented by Mr. José Lopes de Araujo
- RTBF (Belgium), represented by Mr. Pierre Couchard
- ERT (Greece), represented by Ms. Fotini Yiannoulatou
- TV4 (Sweden), represented by Ms. Kajsa Stål
- NTU (Ukraine), represented by Mr. Vladimir Nora
Mr. Pier Luigi Malesani is President of the Supervisory Board and Mr. Andrey Bystritsky is the Vice-president.
The Executive Committee has two members: the President is Mr. Philippe Cayla, the former Chairman and CEO of SOCEMIE, and the Director General is Mr. Michael Peters, the former Director General of SOCEMIE.