Jean Francois Empain, 4th Baron Empain (born 5 June 1964, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a Belgian entrepreneur and the last living Baron Empain after his father's death in June 2018.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Jean Francois Empain | |
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| Born | 5 June 1964 Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation | Internet entrepreneur |
| Known for | Helvetic Clinics. |
| Title | Baron Empain |
| Spouse(s) | Veronique Rousselin (1990–2000) Anne Simond (2018) |
| Children | Philippine and Morgane |
| Parent(s) | Édouard-Jean Empain, Silvana Betuzzi |
Personal life
Jean Francois Empain was born to Édouard-Jean Empain and his first wife, Silvana Betuzzi. His parents were divorced shortly after his father's kidnapping, in 1978.[7][8][9][10]
Jean Francois remained married to Veronique Rousselin from 1990 to 2000. He married Anne Simond in March 2019. Jean has two daughters; Philippine and Morgane.[11][12]
Career
In 1988, Jean Francois Empain started his career in Paris, working for Bacot Alain Warburg (now UBS) as a stock broker. In 1991, he set up a successful Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) in Europe with Pierre Chaker.[13]
Jean François Empain became an early player in the online industry in France.[14] He founded NetBourse, a French online brokerage firm in 1995 that entered into an agreement with Etrade US.[15][16][17][18] In 1999, Etrade (US) bought back their shares in Etrade-Netbourse.[19]
Jean Francois moved to Switzerland in 2002 and became an E-Commerce investor in several ventures before Co-founding Helvetic Dental Clinics, a Switzerland-based company that owns dental clinics of the same name in Hungary, Switzerland, France and Luxembourg.[20][21][22][23][24][25]