Presidency and board

The association is administered by the egta Board which may include anywhere between 6 and 20 individuals who are elected by the General Assembly for a renewable term of office of two years.

egta president:

Geraldine O'Leary Commercial Director RTÉ Television RTÉ Ireland

Thanks to egta, I have access to common experiences for a variety of markets which enable best practice principles to be adopted. Geraldine O'Leary

egta vice-presidents:

Andrea Malgara Chief Executive Officer Premium Media Solutions Germany

Wim Frison Secretary General VAR Belgium

Paolo Lutteri Head of Media Research Center Spira Italy

egta treasurer:	egta past president:
Franz Prenner Chief Executive Officer ORF Enterprise Austria	Heikki Rotko Executive Vice President MTV Oy Finland

In addition the remaining members of the Board are (in alphabetical order):

Laurent Bliaut Deputy General Director for Marketing, Study, Strategy TF1 Publicité France	Andreas Fuhlisch Chief Executive Officer RMS Germany	Michael Grimborg Senior Vice President Marketing & Sales TV4 Sweden
Ludger Lausberg Managing Director ARD Werbung Germany	Zoltan Vardy Vice President Sales TV2 Hungary	Christophe Montague CEO NRJ International Germany
Sergey Piskarev Deputy Director General Gazprom Media Russia	Florian Ruckert Director Marketing IP Deutschland Germany	Martin Schneider Chief Executive Officer publisuisse Switzerland
Nuri Colakoglu Vice Chairman Dogan Media Group Turkey	Pierre-Paul Vander Sande Chief International Operations Officer FTP France	Peter Smithson Director of Sales Strategy Viasat United Kingdom

Please note that within the Board, six people form the egta Executive Committee. The Executive Committee may decide to meet should any emergency arise that requires immediate action, or, simply to prepare a meeting ahead of the Board. This Executive Committee comprises of the president, the three vice-presidents, the treasurer, the past-president and the president elect.