# Yannick Bolloré > Chairman & CEO at havas - Profile type: Person - Profile status: baseline - Last updated: 2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z - Canonical URL: https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/yannick-bollore/ ## Summary Chairman and CEO of Havas since 2013, Yannick Bolloré led the agency holding company through its December 2024 spin-off from Vivendi onto Euronext Amsterdam (ticker: HAVAS). He also chairs the supervisory boards of Vivendi and Canal+, and is a son of French industrialist Vincent Bolloré. ## Profile facts - Current title: Chairman & CEO - Current company: havas (https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/havas/) ## Career trajectory - 2002-01-01 — Co-founder at wy-productions. Co-founded film production company WY Productions with Wassim Béji. - 2006-01-01 — Head of media division at bollore-group. Joined the family-controlled Bolloré Group to launch and develop its media division (Direct 8, Direct Matin, Direct Soir, CSA). - 2009-09-01 — CEO, Bolloré Média at bollore-group. Ran the Bolloré Group's media holdings until September 2010. - 2011-03-01 — Vice-President at havas - 2013-08-01 — Chairman & CEO at havas. Appointed CEO of Havas Group; subsequently anchored the 'Together' integration strategy. - 2018-04-01 — Chairman of the Supervisory Board at vivendi - 2024-10-01 — Chairman of the Supervisory Board at canal-plus. Also appointed Director of Louis Hachette Group ahead of the Vivendi spin-off. - 2024-12-16 — Chairman & CEO at havas. Took Havas N.V. public on Euronext Amsterdam (ticker HAVAS) following the Vivendi spin-off. ## Media appearances - 2026-01-08 — keynote: Havas at CES 2026: AI as agency infrastructure, CES / The Drum (https://www.thedrum.com/news/havas-wants-ai-to-be-infrastructure-not-theater) - 2025-11-17 — article-quote: Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré Denies WPP Deal Rumors, Adweek (https://www.adweek.com/agencies/havas-ceo-yannick-bollore-denies-wpp-deal-rumors/) _This page uses only public-professional information (roles, public statements, media appearances). Family relationships are referenced only where they are publicly documented and editorially relevant to corporate-control structure._ ## Key facts - Chairman and CEO of Havas since August 2013, having joined the group as vice-president in March 2011. — Havas leadership bio: https://www.havas.com/member/yannick-bollore-2/ - Led Havas's spin-off from Vivendi and listing on Euronext Amsterdam under ticker HAVAS (ISIN NL0015002AH0) on December 16, 2024, after Vivendi shareholders approved the four-way split by more than 97.5% on December 9, 2024. — Havas press release: https://www.havas.com/press_release/havas-announces-successful-listing-on-euronext-amsterdam-marking-a-new-era-of-growth-and-innovation/ - Appointed Chairman of Vivendi's Supervisory Board in April 2018, a role he retained at the slimmed-down Vivendi after the December 2024 spin-off. — Vivendi biography: https://www.vivendi.com/en/biography/yannick-bollore/ - Appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Canal+ SA and Director of Louis Hachette Group in October 2024 ahead of the Vivendi reorganization, giving him board-level seats at three of the four post-split entities. — Louis Hachette Group biography: https://www.louishachettegroup.com/en/biographies/yannick-bollore/ - Unveiled Havas's Converged strategic plan in June 2024, a roughly €400 million additional investment through 2027 in data, technology, and AI infrastructure (on top of approximately €600 million spent over the prior decade). — Adweek: https://www.adweek.com/agencies/havas-will-use-ai-to-redefine-what-agency-work-is-worth/ ## Related - havas (Chairman & CEO) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/havas/ - vivendi (Chairman of the Supervisory Board (former parent)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/vivendi/ ## External coverage - Havas: Yannick Bolloré - Havas leadership bio (https://www.havas.com/member/yannick-bollore-2/) - Vivendi: Yannick Bolloré - Vivendi biography (https://www.vivendi.com/en/biography/yannick-bollore/) - 2024-12-16 — Havas: Havas announces successful listing on Euronext Amsterdam (https://www.havas.com/press_release/havas-announces-successful-listing-on-euronext-amsterdam-marking-a-new-era-of-growth-and-innovation/) - Adweek: Havas Will Use AI to Redefine What Agency Work Is Worth (https://www.adweek.com/agencies/havas-will-use-ai-to-redefine-what-agency-work-is-worth/) - 2025-11-17 — Adweek: Havas CEO Yannick Bolloré Denies WPP Deal Rumors (https://www.adweek.com/agencies/havas-ceo-yannick-bollore-denies-wpp-deal-rumors/) - MMM Online: Yannick Bolloré on leading Havas until 2035, break-up 'rationale' and staff pay (https://www.mmm-online.com/home/channel/agencies/yannick-bollore-on-leading-havas-until-2035/) ## Profile Yannick Bolloré sits at an unusual crossroads in European media: operator of a top-six global advertising holding company and chair of the supervisory boards that oversee what remains of Vivendi and the publicly traded Canal+. The December 2024 four-way split of Vivendi turned what had been an internal Bolloré-family portfolio into four separately listed vehicles, and Yannick Bolloré holds board-level seats at three of them while running Havas operationally. For ad-tech and CTV operators, the relevant story is the standalone Havas: a publicly traded holding company that has put roughly €1 billion behind its Converged strategic plan — the AVA platform, data, and AI infrastructure that underpins how it pitches against Publicis, WPP, Omnicom, and IPG for media and creative assignments. ## Tags - agency-holding-companies - havas - vivendi - ceos - europe --- View this profile in a browser: https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/yannick-bollore/ Browse the directory: https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ Machine-readable index: https://thestateofstreaming.com/llms.txt