Gabriel Fehervari (b.
Wilrijk, 1960) is a
Belgian businessman and
CEO of the
Alfacam Group, which consists of three divisions:
Alfacam,
Euro1080 and
Eurolinx. His company, with its headquarters in the Eurocam Media Center in
Lint (
Belgium), has diversified into multimedia television services, tv channels in high definition and wireless tv services. His father was an
Hungarian refugee who fled
Eastern Europe after the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and settled in
Hoboken near Antwerp.
Education
He graduated in
law at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). In addition he took a postgraduate course in
audiovisual communication at the KUL.
Career
In 1985, he started a video business in
Antwerp. At the first edition of the
Night of the Proms in the
Sportpaleis in Antwerp he directed the video images of the event. Since then he continued to record this yearly event. In 1999 he delivered the infrastructure for the transmission of the
Eurovision Song Contest in
Israel. In 2002 he provided a video transmission car for the
2002 Winter Olympics in
Salt Lake City and video recordings at the
FIFA World Cup. He has been present on several events since then. In 2004 he founded
Euro1080.
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