Nonce Paolini (April 1, 1949 - July 17, 2024) 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.
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Early life and education
Paolini's family is originally from Nice. He attended Lycée Montaigne (Paris), holds a Master's degree in literature, and graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (class of 1972).
Career
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. 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.