A constituent of the CAC 40 Index, Vivendi is a leading multinational mass media conglomerate with activities spanning music, television, film, video games, telecommunications, tickets and video hosting. Having joined the company in July 2000, Frédéric Crépin has served as a special advisor to the general counsel and as a member of the legal department of Vivendi (then Vivendi Universal) for five years before his appointment to the position of senior vice president and head of the legal department of the company in August 2005.

Impressing with vision and commercial focus over the subsequent decade, Crépin was invited to take up the more strategic position of group general counsel at Vivendi in 2014, becoming member of the management board a year later. Prior to his in-house career, Crépin worked in private practice across leading law firms in Paris and New York.

A graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), Crépin holds further Master’s degrees from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (Paris X Nanterre), as well as an LLM from the New York University School of Law.