Pierre Chaker is a Franco-Swiss-Lebanese entrepreneur.[1]

Personal Life

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Pierre (Antoine) Chaker was born to Antoine Chaker and Irène Attala in Beirut on June 29, 1963. He was married to Anne-Sophie Le Rolland from 1987 to 2000. Since 2004 he is married to Isabelle Leboucher. He has four children: Alexia, Olivia, Stanislas, and Pierre-Antoine.

Career

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Pierre Chaker studied at Saint Joseph University in Beirut from 1986 to 1988.

He began his career in 1989 as a trader at Bank S.G. Warburg (now UBS) in Paris, where he gained significant experience in the financial markets. He was also responsible for the Technical Analysis Department at the bank.

In 1991, Pierre co-founded Empain-Chaker Futures, a successful CTA (commodity trading advisor) company providing strategic insights and trading opportunities for clients in the futures market. The company was named one of the top three European trading companies by Futures Magazine in 1994.

A pioneer in France's online space, Pierre Chaker founded NetBourse, a French online brokerage firm, in 1995. The company later partnered with Etrade US, though Etrade eventually reacquired their stake in Etrade-Netbourse in 1999.

In 1999, he became a partner and director of Firstream, a company focused on online marketing.

In 2002, Pierre moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he founded several companies. In 2008, Pierre co-founded Helvetic Dental & Orthodontic Clinics Switzerland SA (formerly Empain-Chaker Interactive) with his long-time business partner Jean-François Empain. The company owns dental clinics in Hungary, France, Switzerland and Luxembourg and received a number of awards.[2][3][4][5][6]

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