Jean-Pierre Aguilar studied engineering and computer science at the Grenoble Institute of Technology, before receiving his business degree from the HEC Paris.
[1][2] He started his financial career in 1986, working for the brokerage firm LeGrand before leaving in 1988 to found the finance software company Ubitrade.
[5] In 1994, along with Jean-Philippe Bouchaud he set up the Science & Finance research society, which conducted scientific work on a consultancy basis, while working exclusively for CFM on financial research.
[7] On the morning of 4 July 2009, Aguilar died aged 49 during a gliding accident near the airport of Barcelonnette, a town in the French Alps.
His co-pilot, Michel Fache, president of the local gliding club, also died in the crash.