MAXIME SAADA
CEO of CANAL+
Experience
Maxime Saada has been Chief Executive Officer of the CANAL+ group since 2015 and Chairman of the Management Board since 2018.
He currently serves as: Chairman of Dailymotion since 2016, Chairman of STUDIOCANAL since 2018, Chairman of L’Olympia and Vice-President of the Lagardère Group since 2023. He was a member of Vivendi’s Management Board between June 2022 and December 2024.
Maxime Saada has been with the CANAL+ group for 20 years, starting as the group’s EVP Strategy. After working on the merger with TPS, he successively held the positions of Marketing Director, Head of CANALSAT, Commercial Director, Executive Vice-President in charge of Distribution, before being promoted to Executive Vice-President in charge of pay-TV in 2013.
Before joining CANAL+, Maxime Saada worked for 5 years at McKinsey & Company, after a 4 year experience in the USA with the North American branch of DATAR (Frances’s Interministerial Delegation of Land Planning and Regional Attractiveness).
Maxime Saada is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po 1992) and holds an MBA from HEC (1994).
