Board of Directors

Francis BODSON Independent Director

Director since September 25, 1998, Francis Bodson is Deputy Managing Director of BeTV (former CANAL+ Belgium) and has also been Head Engineer since Canal+ Belgium started in 1988. He has also been CIO since 2002. He was Director of Engineering at RTBF (“Radio Télévision Belge de service de la Communauté Française de Belgique”) for fifteen years (1973-1988). He graduated as a Civil Engineer in electronics at the University of Liege and specialized in acoustics.

Michel COUNSON Managing Director, founder

CTO Hardware Design of the company since it was founded in 1994, Michel COUNSON graduated from the “Institut Electronique” in Liège in 1982. He started his career as a Hardware Engineer with TECHNIQUE DIGITAL VIDEO S.A. in 1983 before founding his own company, VIDEO SYSTEM ENGINEERING S.P.R.L., in 1986 which used to work in partnership with EVS on numerous projects. The two companies merged in 2000. Working alongside Pierre L’HOEST, he is part of the management team of the EVS Group and is Manager of the Hardware Department.

Jean DUMBRUCH Executive Director

Jean DUMBRUCH graduated as an Electronics Engineer and has been an active player in the company from the very beginning. He is a Director of several companies and is actively involved in the management of the EVS group, where he has particular responsibility for administrative matters.

Jacques GALLOY Executive Director

Director and CFO since May 21, 2002, Jacques GALLOY is Chief Financial Officer of EVS. He is a Commercial Engineer, started his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Luxemburg, and then at RTL Group. He is at the head of EVS Corporate Department and participates actively in the group’s international development. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of XDC S.A., EVS’ digital cinema subsidiary; and a member of the Governance Council of HEC-ULg.

Jean-Pierre PIRONNET Director

Jean-Pierre Pironnet is Managing Director of several non listed companies and is an independent wealth manager. He has been an active shareholder of EVS since the founding of the company up to its IPO in 1998, period during which he played an important role. He is a Doctor of Medicine graduated from Liège University.

Christian RASKIN Independent Director

Christian Raskin was a member of the Board of Management of Draka Holding, one of the largest cable companies in Europe, with leading positions in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from UCL in Belgium. In 1984, he cofounded Zetes Electronics (now Zetes Industries, listed on Euronext Brussels). He joined Draka in 1991 and was successively Managing Director of Plasma Optical Fibre BV in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Draka France and Draka Nederland BV. He joined the Corporate Office and the Board of Management of Draka in 2001. He is an independent Director on the Board of EVS.

Pierre RION Director

Pierre Rion is co-founder of the IRIS Group, which he co-managed up to 2001. He is a qualified Electronics and Computing Civil Engineer from the University of Liège, a Business Angel, and he also sits on the boards of other Belgian companies, including XDC, IDDI, Pairi Daiza, Akkanto and Belrobotics. He is also Vice-President of the Agence du Commerce Extérieur.

Yves TROUVEROY Independent Director 

Yves Trouveroy is Partner at E-Capital Equity Management, the management company of the private equity funds E-Capital I (1999) and E-Capital II (2007) that invest in Belgian small and medium-sized companies. Before 1999, he practiced as Lawyer at De Bandt, van Hecke & Lagae and then served as executive in the International Trade & Project Finance and Corporate Investment Banking departments of Generale Bank (Fortis). He holds a law degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain and a Masters of Laws from New York University.

Specialized committees attached to the board

The Board of EVS has set up, since a few years, an Audit Committee and a Compensation Committee to conduct a review of specific issues and advise on this. The final decision remains a collective responsibility of the Board of Directors.

1. Audit Committee

The Audit Committee is composed of three non executive directors, two of whom are Independent Directors. This committee assists the Board of Directors in its responsibilities concerning the integrity of the financial information relating to the company and, in particular, supervising the financial reports, the internal audit function, the external audit function and the relations between the company and its shareholders. The Audit Committee met two times in 2010 in the presence, for most of the topics, of the CFO and the company’s Auditor.

2. Compensation Committee

The three members are Independent Directors. This committee assists the Board of Directors in its responsibilities concerning the setting of remuneration for the company’s executives and managers. This committee met twice in 2010.