LFP: Nicolas de Tavernost (ex-M6 & RMC-BFM) to become new CEO of LFP Media

Nicolas de Tavernost will shortly be taking up the position of CEO of LFP Media, he confirmed to Le Monde on 09/04/2025. This position was previously held by Benjamin Morel since the creation of the Ligue de Football Professionnel's commercial company. Morel stepped down in February 2025.

The former president of the M6 group's management board is currently vice-president of CMA Média (a subsidiary of CMA CGM, since May 2024) and interim managing director of RMC-BFM (formerly Altice Media, since July 2024). He will "resign in the next few days from his role as interim CEO of RMC-BFM, without however relinquishing his role as adviser to Rodolphe Saadé (president and CEO of CMA CGM), in his capacity as vice-president of CMA Média," according to Le Monde.

Nicolas de Tavernost stepped down as president of the management board for the French private free-TV group M6 on 23/04/2024, a position he had held since 2000. Nicolas de Tavernost's presidency was marked in particular by his involvement in the management of FC Girondins de Bordeaux, acquired by the M6 group in 1999 (for 120 million…