{"id":6954,"date":"2026-04-17T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6954\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:06:10","slug":"christophe-pinard-legry-appointed-ceo-of-canal-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/6954\/","title":{"rendered":"Christophe Pinard-Legry Appointed CEO of Canal+ Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/christophe-pinard-legry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christophe-pinard-legry\" data-tag=\"christophe-pinard-legry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christophe Pinard-Legry<\/a> has been appointed CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/canal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_canal\" data-tag=\"canal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canal+<\/a> Europe, in addition to his current role as CEO of Canal+ France, in charge of business activities. He also becomes a member of the Canal+ management board, chaired by Maxime Saada, alongside Amandine Ferr\u00e9, Anna Marsh, David Mignot and G\u00e9rald\u2011Brice Viret.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn his new role, Pinard-Legry\u2019s core mission will be to oversee the global media and entertainment company\u2019s subsidiaries and coordinate all of the group\u2019s activities across Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCanal+ Europe, which operates in 10 European countries and 11 overseas territories, has over 18 million subscribers. It encompasses Canal+ France, co-managed by Pinard-Legry with G\u00e9rald-Brice Viret, CEO of Canal+ France in charge of programs and channels; Canal+ Overseas, led by Aline Alix; Canal+ Benelux and Central Europe, led by Yassine Bouzoubaa; as well as Canal+ Poland, led by Edyta Sadowska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPinard-Legry joined Canal+ in 2016 as commercial director for France. He subsequently held several key positions within the group: director of marketing and commerce for France (2017-2018), director of marketing, sales and customer services (2018-2021), managing director of marketing, sales and customer services at Canal+ France (2021-2022), and CEO of Canal+ France in charge of business activities (2022-2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBefore joining Canal+, he was director of enterprise market at SFR Business, after having held several senior positions at SFR, including marketing director (2009-2012) and commercial director (2012-2015). He began his career in 1997 at Henkel in marketing before joining the E. Leclerc Group in 1999 as marketing category manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPinard-Legry is a graduate of EM Lyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christophe Pinard-Legry has been appointed CEO of Canal+ Europe, in addition to his current role as CEO of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5791,5792,5],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-canal","tag-christophe-pinard-legry","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}