Nonce Paolini

Nonce Paolini (April 1, 1949 - July 17, 2024)^[1] was a French business executive. He was the director general and then chairman of French media company TF1 Group (the Bouygues Group being the main shareholder). He left this position in February 2016 and was succeeded by Gilles Pélisson.

He had previously served as the deputy general manager of Bouygues Telecom, France's third largest mobile phone operator and a subsidiary of the Bouygues Group.

Paolini's family is originally from Nice. He attended Lycée Montaigne (Paris),^[2][3] holds a Master's degree in literature, and graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (class of 1972).

He began his professional career at public companies Électricité de France (EDF) and Gaz de France (GDF), where he held various responsibilities.

In 1988, he joined the French industrial group Bouygues, where he became director of human resources, and in 1990, director of external communications. In July 1993, he became the group's human relations director for TF1 Group.^[4] From 1999 to 2001, he held the positions of internal communication director and deputy general manager of the group, which was built around TF1, a commercial terrestrial television channel privatized in 1987.

In January 2002, he joined Bouygues Telecom, the telecommunications operator and subsidiary of the Bouygues Group, to become its deputy general manager. In April 2004, he became Bouygues Telecom's managing director and administrator.^[5]

From July 2002 to March 2005, Paolini chaired the association Médiation Télécom (AMET), an organization mediating between clients and landline and mobile phone operators.

On February 20, 2007, Patrick Le Lay proposed to separate the roles of president (which he would keep) and general manager of the group, assigning it to someone else. On May 22 following, Paolini was named general manager of the TF1 Group by its board of directors. Étienne Mougeotte, then vice-president of TF1, had to leave his role as director of the group's broadcast and program divisions in August.

2008年7月31日、パオリーニはTF1グループの社長兼ゼネラルマネージャーに任命され、社長職を退任したものの管理者としての地位は維持したパトリック・ル・レイの後任となった。彼は8月25日に就任した。この役職における彼の年俸はTF1によって公表され、2008年には130万ユーロに達した。

2015年、彼はTF1の週末ニュース番組を24年間担当していたクレール・シャザルを解雇したことでメディアで頻繁に取り上げられた。 ^{[ 6 ] [ 7 ]}

2016年2月17日、パオリーニはジル・ペリソンに道を譲り辞任した。^{[ 8 ]}

2022年5月、彼はTF1の人気司会者パトリック・ポワブル・ダルヴォールの行動を非難し、性的暴力のシステムを隠蔽したという告発に対して弁明した。^{[ 9 ]}

彼はTF1の番組「テレショッピング」の司会者の一人であるカトリーヌ・ファルゲイラックと3度目の結婚をしており、以前の2回の結婚で3人の娘がいる。^{[ 10 ]}

• レジオンドヌール勲章シュヴァリエ（2007年7月13日）。経済財務省の管轄下で任命された。^{[ 11 ]}