Jean Francois Empain

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
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]}