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.http://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/les-dernieres-paroles-du-baron-empain-il-faut-sortir-gagnant-de-cette-impasse-5b2bf28355326301e7a94af1c
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.According to Édouard-Jean Empain in the documentary L'Enlèvement du baron Empain – « Faites entrer l'accusé » (2005).Michel Bôle-Richard, Les désillusions du baron perdu, Le Monde, 28 juillet 2006.Message from the kidnappers to RTL on the 24 janvier 1978, document Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL).D'après le commissaire André Bizeul de la brigade criminelle dans le documentaire L'Enlèvement du baron Empain – « Faites entrer l'accusé » (2005).
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.
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.
Jean François Empain became an early player in the online industry in France. He founded NetBourse, a French online brokerage firm in 1995 that entered into an agreement with Etrade US. In 1999, Etrade (US) bought back their shares in Etrade-Netbourse.Bloomberg
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.
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