Montreal: A Motion International board committee has started a search for the replacement of president, ceo and chairman (as named last summer) Guy Crevier, who will resign next month to join newspaper La Presse as president and publisher.

Meantime, senior vp and cfo Pierre Guilbault will assume additional interim responsibilities.

In a statement, Motion’s controlling shareholder Charles Sirois, ceo of Telesystem, said he would have liked to continue working with Crevier, but understands Crevier’s reasons for leaving. He would not elaborate any further.

Crevier joined Sirois’ Telesystem group in November ’97 after holding senior posts with Videotron and Groupe tva. He was named president and ceo of Motion in July ’98.

Telesystem represents Motion’s controlling shareholder group and manages telecommunication, finance and media assets of about $18 billion, including Teleglobe, Microcell, Public Technologies Multimedia and BDU Look Communications.