Jean-Charles Samuelian
CEO and founder in Paris, France
Jean-Charles Samuelian is a French entrepreneur.
He is the CEO & co-founder of Alan. Alan is the first digital health insurance in Europe and the first independent insurance to be licensed since 1986 in France.
Alan reinvents the user experience while providing simple, seamless coverage with excellent value for money. Companies can register online in less than 5 minutes and offer their employees an excellent health coverage.
At Alan, we believe that the job of insurer is not simply to cover financial risks, but to help make health simple and accessible. We believe that new technologies, used in the right way, will improve people's health. We want to give them the power and the tools to understand and act on the long term.
Alan was created in February 2016 by Jean-Charles Samuelian and Charles Gorintin and raised more than €12m in one of the largest Seed round in France.
Prior to that, he cofounded Expliseat, which has revolutionized aircraft seating for economy class through new technologies, now flying on several airlines.
He programs since he is 12.
Samuelian has received several prices including French Industry Medal awarded by French Industry Minister, 2 Montgolfier Prices from French "Society for the Encouragement of National Industry, has done several talks including TEDxParis l'Echappée Volée.
Samuelian holds a MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Ponts Paristech, as well as a MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs and his a member of the French Institute of Actuaries.