MR chairman Georges-Louis Bouchez has nominated Eric Domb, founder and CEO of Pairi Daiza animal park, as a member of the board of telecoms group Proximus. He will replace Franck-Philippe Georgin, who was convicted in France.
The MR chairman says that Domb’s “entrepreneurial talent has been sufficiently proven and that he is a great asset” to the telecoms company.
Domb is a well-known entrepreneur in French-speaking Belgium. He founded the Pairi Daiza animal park in the mid-1990s, then under the name Parc Paradisio. The company was listed on the stock exchange for several years until Domb and Marc Coucke delisted it. Since then, Domb has owned about 70 per cent of the shares and Coucke about 30 per cent.
Franck-Philippe Georgin decided to step down after what Bouchez described as “constructive discussions”. The Frenchman, who was appointed director of Proximus for the Belgian state last spring on Bouchez’s recommendation, has been convicted of a criminal offence in Paris.
