Gabriel Fehervari (born

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, 1960) is a

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businessman and was the CEO of the former ''Alfacam Group'', which consisted of three divisions: Alfacam,

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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 Lint (

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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

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near Antwerp.

Education

He graduated in

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at the

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( UFSIA) 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

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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

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. 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

Sources

Gabriel Fehervari
(IMDB)

(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