YOHANN LEROY JOINS EUTELSAT AS DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY

Michel de Rosen, Chief Executive Officer of Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced the appointment of Yohann Leroy as Director of Strategy. An engineer of the École des Mines and graduate of the École Polytechnique, Yohann Leroy, 32, joined Eutelsat from the office of the French Prime Minister, where he was technical advisor for Industry and Information Technology from 2007 to 2010. This followed four years as head of the industrial development department at the Île de France regional division for industry, research and the environment (DRIRE).