Thierry Drilhon - CEO, Euro Media Group

Thierry Drilhon graduated from Stanford University and EAD Paris. He is bringing to the group more than 25 years of experience in the innovation, technology and services field.

Married, father of 3 and marathon runner, he is among those of few French people who have met continued success in worldwide companies.
Starting in 1985 as Named Accounts European Manager at Digital Equipment France, he became Marketing Manager, and then Sales Director. In 1996, Thierry Drilhon joins Microsoft as Deputy Managing Director and member of the board in charge of the Enterprise Business Unit.
In 2000, he joins Cisco first in France as CEO and later in Europe as Vice-President and finally at the worlwide level as the Corporate Vice-President in charge of partnerships and alliances.
In 2012, Thierry Drilhon becomes CEO of Euro Media Group.

As one of the « francoptimism » vision evangelist, he is the cofounders of the « Etats de la France ».
Thierry Drilhon was made a knight of the French « Ordre National du Mérite ». He is also Board Member of the Beijaflore Group and the groupe Tiaré.

Bernard Chaussegros holds a degree in Accounting as well as a degree in Economics. He specialsed in business development, focusing on the audiovisual sector. In 2000 he became a shareholder of Euro Media Television, alongside the three founders Chantal Barry, Jean-Pierre Barry and Luc Geoffroy. Bernard Chaussegros was then involved in the acquisition process of SFP, VCF and DVS. In 2007, he actively worked on the integration of Euro Media Television and the UBF Group. In 2008, he successfully oversaw the purchase of the TPX group and, more recently, in 2010, he carried out the acquisition of the Italian company 3ZERO2.
Besides his duties at Euro Media Group, Bernard Chaussegros holds several positions. In 2008, he was appointed to the French Accounting Standard Authority. He is an advisor to the French Central Bank in Créteil for media-related matters, and sits on the Créteil Commercial Court.
Passionate about football, he is President of the club Arles-Avignon Football Club (French Second League). Bernard Chaussegros was made a knight of the French « Legion d’Honneur », the « Ordre National du Mérite » and the « Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ».

Xavier Marvaldi is an engineer from the Ecole Centrale in Lyon. He started his career as a consultant with Accenture and Mc Kinsey. Working at Canal+ from 2002 to 2005 he successively held the positions of Technical Director for Canal Satellite, Technical Distribution Director for the group and then Chairman for Canal+ Active. In 2005, he joined M6 Web as the Managing Director and in three years, under his management, the company's turnover and the results have doubled.
In 2008, Xavier Marvaldi created an Internet start-up company within a community domain, which he developed up to 2012. 

Starting as a freelance cameraman in 1983, Henk Bout started Camco, an ENG company in 1988. Camco grew and became United, a full service broadcast facilities company.

Through acquisitions, United became UBF Media Group, an international European group. After the merger with the French company EMT into Euro Media Group, he sold his shares in 2007, and decided to focus his attention on United in the Netherlands.

Dirk Theunis has a wealth of experience within the Broadcast industry, having spent 27 years at Videohouse. As a child, he showed a large interest in Video and Audio. His father was involved in the start-up of Television in Belgium at NIR (predecessor of public broadcaster VRT). Dirk studied at the School for Television and Film (RITCS) and began his career as a Freelance Video-technician.  In 1985, he joined Videohouse as a Video-editor.
In 1992, he was appointed Chief Engineer of the start-up multi-camera division of Videohouse and from 2000 to 2010 he held the position of CTO (Chief Technical Officer). During this period he was a member of the board of Directors and officially became CEO and Managing Director of Videohouse in 2011.

Barry Johnstone was born and educated in New Zealand and moved to London in 1970. From 1971 to 1980 he was International Director at Magnet Records. In 1981,
he became Managing Director of CTV and currently holds the position. In 1995 Barry Johnstone bought the non-outside broadcast business of CTV (Corinthian Television) from its parent company Carlton Communications and started CTV Outside Broadcasts in 1996. He divided the company in 1999 and sold CTV Outside Broadcasts to NMT (USA) and then sold the studio and transmission facilities (Corinthian Television) to Technicolor / Thomson in 2004. Barry oversaw the sale of CTV Outside Broadcasts from NMT to the UBF Media Group in 2005 and continued as Managing Director of CTV.
He is also International Director of Euro Media Group.

In 1987, Stefan Hoff started as editor, Video Mixer and TV Director for sports and entertainment programmes. From 1996 to 2008 he worked as Managing Director of WIGE COMMUNICATION GmbH, WIGE TELEVISION GmbH and HD Signs GmbH. In 2007-2008 he was also COO (Chief Operations Officer) and Member of the Board at listed company WIGE MEDIA AG.
Since 2008, he is Managing Director of nobeo GmbH. In 2010 has become a member of the Board of the German Film and Television association VTFF, Berlin.