Eurosport announces four new appointments to its management team

The pay-TV group Eurosport announced four new appointments to its management team on 13/05/2015. "Today’s announcement is a strengthening of Eurosport’s leadership team that will transform our business and drive world-class standards in sports programming, production, promotion and platforms," stated Peter Hutton, the CEO of the Eurosport group.

Three Eurosort managers have now been promoted: Arnaud Simon to senior vice president of content and production for the Eurosport group; Laurent Prud'homme to senior vice president of rights acquisitions and syndication; Julien Bergeaud to senior vice president, France country manager and sports rights for southern Europe.

Jonathan Davies joins the Eurosport group from CNN, and will be the managing director of advertising sales for Eurosport and the Discovery Pan-Europe division.

• "(These) four key appointments and changes further integrate Discovery Communications and Eurosport lines of business in France, and build upon Eurosport’s leadership as a premier sports brand," stated Eurosport on 13/05/2015.

Arnaud Simon, senior vice president…