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Canal+ ups CanalPlay chief

Canal+ Group has promoted the head of French subscription VoD platform CanalPlay, Patrick Holzman, to director of its international SVoD operations.

Holzman, who joined Canal+ in 2012 as director of CanalPlay, will report to Manuel Alduy, director of Canal+’s OTT department.

Having co-founded movie website Allociné in 1993, Holman became director of audiovisual at IPTV provider Free in 2005 and launched France’s first VoD and SVoD offerings.

He will be replaced at CanalPlay by Jean-Marc Lacarrère, MD of DTT channel D8’s movie coproduction and pre-buying subsidiary D8 Films. Lacarrère’s previous positions included MD of investment and consultant company Content Participation and general secretary of Canal+’s news channel iTELE.

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