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Stéphane Marcovitch has been appointed sales and marketing director of AFP. He will take up the position on May 4.

Stéphane Marcovitch’s background covers two areas: law (he is an attorney specialised in business law) and sales and marketing (he has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Early in his career he held legal positions advising media and internet companies. He was vice president of GESTE (an association of online publishers) and Executive Director of the French Internet Service Providers Association.

In this role he negotiated agreements with the music and film industries for the development of online platforms.

He went on to co-found a consultancy in New York for European and Asian companies, including in the media and audiovisual sectors, seeking to expand into the United States.
 

In 2012 he joined the Veolia group.  Before joining AFP, he was Vice President in charge of French and international sales for m2ocity, France’s leading operator in the Internet of Things (a joint venture of Veolia and Orange).

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