[11][12] 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.
[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.