{"id":49238,"date":"2025-05-05T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-appoints-orange-exec-jean-francois-fallacher-as-ceo-replacing-eva-berneke\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T18:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:35:45","slug":"eutelsat-appoints-orange-exec-jean-francois-fallacher-as-ceo-replacing-eva-berneke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-appoints-orange-exec-jean-francois-fallacher-as-ceo-replacing-eva-berneke\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Appoints Orange Exec Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Fallacher as CEO, Replacing Eva Berneke"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eutelsat<\/strong> <strong>Group<\/strong> has appointed Orange France CEO Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Fallacher to lead the satellite operator as CEO, replacing Eva Berneke. Eutelsat announced the change on Monday morning after a board decision on May 4. Fallacher will take the helm on June 1.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fallacher has served as executive vice president and CEO of Orange, the French multinational telecommunications company, since April 2023. He has led Orange operations in Spain, Romania and Poland, and previously served as COO of internet service provider Wanadoo in the Netherlands and CEO of telecoms consulting firm Sofrecom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eutelsat described the move as a \u201cnatural change that fully aligns Eutelsat to the telecom ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to welcome Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Fallacher as he picks up the baton from Eva. With his proven track record of success and wealth of experience and expertise, I am convinced he is the right leader to take Eutelsat forward and successfully steward the company through the opportunities and challenges which will undoubtedly present themselves in the coming years,\u201d Eutelsat board chair Dominique D\u2019Hinnin commented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Hinnin credited Berneke for delivering on Eutelsat\u2019s telecoms pivot strategy amid \u201cincreased competitive and geopolitical pressure.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnology is evolving faster than ever, and in today\u2019s increasingly complex geopolitical context, satellite networks have become a key element in the connectivity landscape. I am convinced Eutelsat has the fundamentals to be a winner in this environment,\u201d Fallacher said in a statement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Berneke took the helm at Eutelsat at the start of 2022, and within months made the move to fully acquire OneWeb and form a combined Geostationary Orbit (GEO) and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) operator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OneWeb, with more than 600 satellites, is the only broadband LEO constellation currently in operation as a competitor to SpaceX\u2019s Starlink constellation. Like the rest of the satcom industry, Eutelsat has been impacted by competition from Starlink. However, it has also seen a recent uptick in interest with calls for Europe to spend more on sovereign defense capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEutelsat is set for a full alignment with a world where Europe is a strong sovereign space player and strongly aligned with the telecom connectivity ecosystem. So with Eutelsat\u2019s strategy anchored in the IRIS\u00b2 constellation, and a European sovereign future, we look to adjust our governance and shareholder structure, and this has paved the way for our CEO succession,\u201d Berneke said Monday in a statement on LinkedIn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eutelsat Group has appointed Orange France CEO Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Fallacher to lead the satellite operator as CEO, replacing Eva Berneke. Eutelsat announced the change on Monday morning after a board decision on May 4. Fallacher will take the helm on June 1.&nbsp; Fallacher has served as executive vice president and CEO of Orange, the French multinational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}