Olivier Abecassis - Tlvision Franaise President

Mr. Olivier Abecassis serves as Chairman of Unify and Member of the Executive Committee of Television Francaise 1 SA. He was previously appointed as Vice President, Innovation and Digital and Member of the Executive Committee at the company as of February 2016. He was tasked with the digitalization of the Group and with rolling out its digital strategy. He also oversaw the Groups startup incubator, which aims to anticipate trends in media use and monetization. Olivier Abecassis is a graduate of the French National Institute of Telecommunications. He began his career in 1996 when he was involved in the launch of the French satellite broadcaster TPS. At the end of 1998, he joined TF1 to oversee the analoguetodigital switchover of the TF1 and LCI channels. He was appointed Director of Engineering and Technical Procurement in 2001. In 2004, he became Director of New Technologies. In 2006, he cofounded and managed the WAT digital content platform and piloted the TF1 groups web developments, including the acquisition of an equity stake in Overblog, the leading French blog platform. In 2008, he became Executive Vice President of eTF1, the Groups online business, with responsibility for the webmobile offering and for marketing and implementing the transformation of the TF1.fr portal. He became Chief Executive Officer of eTF1 in 2010. He subsequently launched MYTF1, organizing its makeover in May 2015. Since 2010, he has also been a member of the Management Committee of Teads, formed out of the merger of Overblog with Wikio, eBuzzing, BeeAd and Teads. In 2014, in addition to his operational responsibilities at eTF1, he was given responsibility for Open Innovation, a transverse department within the TF1 group. since 2018.