Jean-Yves Sireau is the founder of the Company. A serial entrepreneur at heart, he founded his first company in 1991. His achievements at only 21 years old saw him awarded the prestigious Foundation Jacques Dounce prize for young entrepreneurs by the French prime minister Edith Cresson, and the Neuilly Professions prize by a future French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Jean-Yves founded Fortitude Fund Management, a hedge fund management group, in 1993, and Binary.com (formerly known as Betonmarkets.com) in 1999.