Gabriel Fehervari (born Wilrijk, 1960) is a Belgian businessman and was the CEO of the former ''Alfacam Group'', which consisted of three divisions: Alfacam, Euro1080 and Eurolinx. Alfacam was declared bankrupt on 19 April 2013. He is the son of Hungarian

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. His former company, with its headquarters in the Eurocam Media Center in

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(

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), had diversified into multimedia television services, TV channels in high definition and wireless TV services. His father was a Hungarian refugee who fled

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after the

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and settled in Hoboken near Antwerp.

Education

He graduated in law at the University of Antwerp (

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) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL). In addition he took a postgraduate course in

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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

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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

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. In 2002 he provided a video transmission car for the

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and video recordings at the

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. He has been present on several events since then. In 2004 he founded Euro1080.

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(2008) 1960 births Living people Belgian businesspeople KU Leuven alumni People from Wilrijk Belgian people of Hungarian descent Date of birth missing (living people) {{Belgium-business-bio-stub