Grégoire Genest

An entrepreneur at heart, I am pleased to have launched Albert School. 🏫 A 50% engineering, 50% business school. Albert School is the school that trains the leaders of tomorrow's economy. There are many important elements in this sentence. "Leaders": because we are a school of excellence. A term not to be confused with elitism. We are committed to recruiting students who understand quickly, who have ambition and who want to go far in their professional lives. "Economy": because we train students who will become experts in the business world. "Tomorrow": our world is being transformed by information technology, so we need to master it in order to move companies forward at the same time as change.

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• QUANT EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION - CONFIRMED: a real, dated role as Quantitative Trader at Jane Street (New York, 2017) per LinkedIn work history, independently corroborated by an SEC/FINRA broker record (CRD# 6790978, 'Gregoire Stanislas Genest' at Jane Street Capital LLC; SIE, Series 57, Series 7; finance career start 2017). Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm / liquidity provider (company index + janestreetcapital.com).2017
• Founder & CEO of Albert School (albertschool.com), a Paris school blending engineering and business; founded 2021 and still leading it as of 2026.2021
• Co-founded Albert School in 2021 (launched 2022) with Mathieu Schimpl and Matthieu Heurtel; it raised EUR 8m from backers including Xavier Niel (Iliad), Bernard Arnault (LVMH) and Rodolphe Saade, and grew from 33 to 650 students with campuses in Paris, Marseille, Milan, Madrid and Geneva.2021
• Worked as Quantitative Trader at Jane Street in New York in 2017, per LinkedIn work history; an SEC/FINRA broker record for 'Gregoire Stanislas Genest' tied to Jane Street Capital LLC corroborates the Jane Street tie (identity cross-check pending).2017
• Founded and led NEOS ('le shopping libere'), a Paris startup, 2017-2020; it was acquired by Lyf Pay.2017
• Co-founded NEOS (New Experience Of Shopping) in 2017 with Frederic Arnault and Patrick Nollet, three Polytechnique alumni; the mobile-payment app skipped checkout and was acquired by Lyf Pay (BNP Paribas) in 2019.2017
• Describes his post-Polytechnique path as starting out in algorithmic trading in New York, then a mobile-payments startup sold to BNP (NEOS/Lyf Pay), then private equity (Advent) - a factual chronology, not a causal chain.2026
• Associate at Advent International in Paris (2020-2021), working on tech/telecom/media and contributing to the sale of Circet to ICG.2020
• Education: Ecole Polytechnique (applied mathematics); M2 Probabilite Finance at Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI); classes prepa MPSI/MP at Lycee Louis-le-Grand; International Baccalaureate at the International School of Luxembourg.2017
• IMO record confirmed: represented Luxembourg in 2009 (HM, 9 pts), 2010 (HM, 10 pts) and 2011, winning a bronze medal in 2011 (17 pts, rank 222); IMO's own participant page lists all three editions.2011
• Won the Forbes France 30 Under 30 award (2019 edition) as president of Alephom, the vehicle behind NEOS; Forbes France published a short feature on him then.2019
• Represented Luxembourg at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2009, 2010 and 2011.2009