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Stanislas Leridon Appointed Multimedia Activities Director for Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France
PARIS, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Alain de Pouzilhac and Christine Ockrent, respectively CEO and COO of Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France, the French TV & Radio World Service, appointed Stanislas Leridon as Multimedia Activities Director for Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France. Mr Leridon will be responsible for coordinating multimedia activities and development for Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France's subsidiaries RFI and FRANCE 24 as well as for creating synergies between these two subsidiaries and with TV5MONDE. He will also be in charge of new projects and partnerships in Internet and mobility. Stanislas Leridon is 42 years old and a graduate of HEC. From 2000 to 2005 he was General Manager of Visiware, the world's leading provider of interactive TV services. Prior to that, he worked for IP Group where he held various positions in France and abroad before becoming General Manager of advertising sales for pan-European TV channels (Euronews, BBC World, ARTE). He will continue to exercise his current duties as Internet and New Media Director for international news channel, FRANCE 24, a position he has held since March 2006. About Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France: Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France is the French TV & Radio World Service. It has been created to coordinate and modernize France's foreign broadcasting activities, in order to meet the new technological challenges and to improve their audience. Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France is responsible for 4 companies which used to operate separately: RFI, the multilingual world radio station, Monte Carlo Doualiya, the Arabic subsidiary of RFI, FRANCE24, the all news channel in French, English and Arabic - and TV5MONDE, the French-speaking worldwide TV network shared with Canada, Québec, Switzerland, Belgium.
