Eleven Group: five appointments "to strengthen the leadership team" including Marc Watson as CEO

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"The Eleven Group has strengthened its leadership team, to lay the foundations for continued growth in the months ahead," announced the British pay-TV group on 08/10/2021. Marc Watson, Eleven's co-founder, has been appointed as CEO, a position he previously held between March 2015 and January 2020. Andrea Radrizzani, chairman and founder of Aser Ventures, the group's parent company, has been appointed as executive director.

Alessandro Tucci, former COO of Italian distribution company MainStreaming, has been appointed COO and will focus on managing and developing the group's international business. Tucci succeeds Anouk Mertens, who has held the position since November 2018 and has been appointed chief content officer and will "take on overall leadership for the group's content strategy."

Lastly, Guillaume Collard, Eleven's chief rights acquisitions officer and MD for Belgium and Luxembourg, "will grow his role and oversee Eleven's expansions into new markets, develop new distribution deals across the network and continue to strengthen the group's rights portfolio" in addition…

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