Canal+ Group hires former Salto exec Thomas Follin

Canal+ Group has hired the former managing director of the recently shut-down Salto, Thomas Follin as chief global transformation officer.

Follin will join the group as of 9 May 2023, he will be tasked with accelerating the group’s growth in the rapidly changing market as well as strengthening its integration and pooling its strategic assets. His other responsibilities in the new role include making actions aimed at pooling efforts in the creation and production of audiovisual content for all of the group’s geographies, alongside Anna Marshmallow.

The chief was also be involved in the coordination of projects aiming at the global formalisation of the activity, the digitalisation of all the group’s business lines and the optimisation of cooperation methods between the business lines, the geographies and the Tech lines, alongside Jacques du Puy, Christophe Pinard-Legry and Stéphane Baumier.

Salto launched as a joint-venture between France Televisions, TF1 and M6 closed its services in March after debuting in 2020, Follin was appointed in 2019 to led the launch of the platform.

Previously Follin worked at M6 Group where he joined in 2008. At the group he headed up the broadcaster’s launch of M6 Replay, its catch-up offering and has also supervised the domestic and international development of M6’s video-on-demand service, comprising 6play in France, RTLplay in Belgium and Croatia and RTLMost in Hungary.

Since 2022 Canal+ has had presence among in 50 countries and had 25.5 million subscribers, including 16 million outside France.