Seville, 14th of September 2011..- The Board of Directors of Grupo Ezentis, a leading company in technology, telecommunications and infrastructure, has appointed Manuel García-Durán as new Chairman of the Group. He will take over after Mario Armero, who has handed in his resignation.

Manuel García-Durán’s professional career has been intrinsically linked to projects and companies in the technology, telecommunications and audiovisual sector. García-Durán was the chairman of Telefónica Media, the Spanish company’s business unit dedicated to the Group’s interests in audiovisual and media. He also held the position as General Manager of marketing, communications and Institutional Relations of Telefónica Group, at the time when the company was being privatized and began its internationalization process in 1996-2011. Additionally, García-Durán was the executive vice president of Antena3 TV, where he has led various projects related to the audiovisual sector in recent years. Recently, he has appointed advisor of the Board of Brasilinvest that it is and important group with partners in 16 countries and prominent representatives from all around the world who are part of the group's Board of Advisors.

Amongst the principal objectives, the chairman will seek to take advantage of Ezentis’ broad multinational experience in order to consolidate and advance the process of internationalization and strengthen the Group’s presence in Latin America. Additionally he also aims to intensify the projects that are already underway in other geographical areas such as Eastern Europe and Maghreb.

With the resignation of Mario Armero Montes, who joined Ezentis in February 2010, a period characterized by the implementation of major restructurings and consolidation comes to an end. In 2010 the Group had an operating profit of 6.7 million Euros compared to the 5.9 million Euros in losses last year.

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