MUMBAI: Endemol N.V. has appointed Elías Rodriguez-Viña Cancio as chairman and CEO of the company. This appointment follows the resignation of Joaquim Agut Bonsfills.

Rodriguez-Viña will chair the company’s management board, joining its other three members: chief operating officer Tom Barnicoat, chief creative officer Peter Bazalgette and chief financial officer Jan Peter Kerstens.

Rodriguez-Viña comes from Telefónica SA, where he has been responsible for the Group’s non-core subsidiaries. Before that, he was CFO of Terra Lycos and has worked for companies such as Arthur Andersen, General Electric and UBS.