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Saada takes C+ overall charge

April 10, 2018

The Canal+ Group Supervisory Board has unanimously appointed Maxime Saada Chairman of the Managing Board of Canal+ Group. In this capacity, Saada will be heading all Group operations.

Saada succeeds Jean-Christophe Thiery who is appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Canal+ Group, replacing Vincent Bolloré.

Saada graduated from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (1992) and holds an MBA from HEC (1994). After working at DATAR and at McKinsey & Company, he joined Canal+ Group in 2004, where he successively was head of Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Distribution and Content.

After leaving the Ministry of Finance, Jean-Christophe Thiery, a former ENA student, spent his entire career in the media industry within the Bolloré Group, which he joined in 2001 before becoming Chairman of the Managing Board of the Canal+ Group in 2015.

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