Yannick Bolloré
Chairman & CEO at havas
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.
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.
Elsewhere
- Yannick Bolloré - Havas leadership bio
- Yannick Bolloré - Vivendi biography
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