Executive shuffle at Modern Times Group, new Nordic boss


Modern Times Group (MTG) has made several hires and promotions as other executives leave the company to join former boss Hans Holger Albrecht.


The free and pay TV broadcast group has hired a new head of Nordic pay TV and appointed a new boss of its African operation.
Martin Lewerth, executive vice-president of pay TV and technology, and Marc Zagar, executive vice-president of finance, are leaving the company to join Millicom, the telco run by Albrecht. They will leave at the end of this month and the end of January respectively.

Laurence Miall-d’Aout, executive vice-president of business diversification, is also leaving the company.

New faces at MTG include Anna Settman, who has been poached from Aftonbladet, Sweden’s largest newspaper, and she will be executive vice-president, Nordic pay TV from the start of March 2013. Until that point Jette Nygaard-Andersen will be acting CEO of Nordic pay TV and oversee that side of MTG’s business. 
Joseph Hundah has been promoted to executive vice-president of MTG’s African operations, which comprise the Viasat1 free-TV channel in Ghana, Modern Africa Productions, and the distribution of MTG’s Viasat documentary channels. He joined MTG in 2011 having previously been at South African pay TV operator M-Net and MultiChoice.

One other change sees Bartek Gudowski promoted to chief technology officer of Viasat Broadcasting and chief financial officer Mathias Hermansson appointed to head up the group’s strategy and M&A activities.