MUMBAI: Eutelsat Communications has appointed Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet as chief commercial officer and member of the Executive Committee, succeeding Andrew Wallace who is leaving Eutelsat to pursue other professional interests.

Leprince-Ringuet will join Eutelsat on 16 April to assume overall responsibility for Eutelsat‘s commercial activities.

He brings 30 years of experience in IT and telecoms to Eutelsat. He has held commercial strategy, sales and marketing positions in Europe and North America at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Cap Gemini and Bull, and has also been President of the IDATE Foundation.

"Eutelsat‘s ambition is to consolidate its place in broadcast and broadband markets with the highest quality of service, and to leverage innovation that can expand the role of satellites in the digital economy. Leprince-Ringuet‘s background in international telecom markets and his experience in developing sales and partner relationships will add to our commercial strengths and I am very pleased to welcome his broad talents to our management team," commented Eutelsat CEO Michel de Rosen. "I thank Andrew for his commitment to our Group and wish him continued success in his career."