Yannick BolloreCEO HAVAS Group and Chairman Supervisory Board at Vivendi

Yannick Bolloré Chairman & CEO Havas Group Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Vivendi Yannick Bolloré is Chairman and CEO of the Havas Group, one of the largest communications groups in the world with revenue of 2,3 billion euros and more than 20 000 people in over 100 countries. After graduating from Paris Dauphine University in 2001, he successfully co-founded movie production company ‘WY Productions’ (Hell, Yves Saint Laurent). In 2006, he joined his family group – the Bolloré group – to launch and develop their media division. In the space of 5 years Bolloré Media (D8, D17) became the leading independent French TV Group and was subsequently sold to Canal+, making the Bolloré group a shareholder in Vivendi. He then joined the Havas Group in 2011 and became CEO in 2013. He has initiated an important restructuring of the group to make it the most integrated and forward thinking of the industry. In 2017, the Vivendi Group took majority control of the Havas Group. In April 2018, he was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Vivendi. Yannick Bolloré was selected as a young global leader in 2008 by the World Economic Forum and has received several business distinctions and awards over the years by international associations and the economic press. He is also a Knight in the French order of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bolloré Group, the Vivendi Group and the Musée Rodin.