Executive Vice President for publishing and production
Chief Operating Officer

Mathias Hautefort has a successful track record in the Telecom and Media Sector. Since March 2005, he was the chief executive officer of Viaccess S.A., a France Telecom Content Division company. While there, he contributed to the company’s turnaround by creating a strategy for redirecting its activities towards the Telecom market and established an offering of convergent products. 
In June 2002 he became chief financial officer of Noos, the leading French cable operator, and was soon promoted to chief operating officer. There until September 2004, he ran successfully the financial and operational turnaround of Noos on an increasingly competitive market.
Beginning June 2000, he held the position of Director of Media Activities for the Suez Group (Communication Division). 
From 1997 to 2000, Mathias Hautefort was Technical Advisor in the cabinets of Christian Pierret, French Secretary of State for Industry, and Technical Advisor to Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Christian Sautter, French Ministers of Economy, Finance and Industry.
Mathias Hautefort is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecoms.