Education will not be a long quiet river

He enjoys skiing, the Spain and films by Claude Sautet. But it is his weakness for the stock-in-trade that led him there where he is. Big boy placid metre Ninety-one and thirty-five years, Benoît Grisoni is today Director of Boursorama Banque, one of the major French actors of savings and online brokerage. He wearing suit-tie of rigour, has meetings without always take the time to lunch, invests entirely in his job and appears to be body with its business... In short, one Executive like the others Not quite. Because, when it raises the veil, we discover a journey - and a story - a little less smooth than the average.

Grandson of Italian immigrants expelled from their country by the economic difficulties and son of entrepreneurs, Benoît Grisoni was born the same year as the domestic SME and grew up at the same rate it. Later, he also will have a single idea in mind: "mount its box." Education will not be a long quiet river. A little too turbulent to remain in the public, he entered Stanislas which he was expelled for landing in Gerson. And ends at Chaptal where he is dragged painfully to the Lac D (Biology). A test of philosophy, where his mother had previously won a brilliant "19/20" to HEC, he gets only a "6". "I had managed to call Johnny Hallyday in my copy", he said. This Lord "Can do better" enchaînera with the ICS Bégué accounting studies, supplemented by a 3ecycle to the Eslsca.

The resourcefulness to resell

Not really the profile of the beast in competition, therefore. But the resourcefulness and "niaque" jobbed. During his studies, Benoît Grisoni participates with her best friend in a competition at the Palais Brongniart between investors apprentices. Jackpot: three days in New York with Tower by helicopter and tutti quanti. Benoît and his friend make implementing and fly to America. Not without having previously to negotiate with the organisers stay longer, but without frills. Seven days, the two accomplices shed all brokers to Wall Street for hundreds of CV. The operation will not crowned success, but the story telling.

Back in Paris, Benoît Grisoni abandoned along the way a comfortable course of six months for BNP Paribas Asset Management (even though it offered a Commission in the wake) to reach the end of 1998 which is still only a small broker "on line" in derivatives, a subsidiary of Société Générale: Fimatex. Start-up atmosphere it is better than the plush premises of the House of the street on September 4. He will soon make his hole.

Therefore, his professional life confondra with that of the undertaking, punctuated of successive acquisitions. March 2002: Fimatex married the Boursorama website, which it will eventually take the name; Benoît Grisoni is Director of customer service. December 2002: reconciliation with Selftrade; He took the reins of Boursorama Invest, embryo of what is today Boursorama Bank. Early 2006: the renew of the Internet bubble is hands on CaixaBanque and its 53 agencies hard. Eric Mignot, la Caixa, is bombed Boursorama bank boss, Benoît Grisoni becomes his assistant. Four years later, it replaces. Icing on the cake: in the basket of la Caixa, he found that that was to become his wife and the mother of his eight-month-old girl.