Jean Michel Pailhon

Jean-Michel Pailhon is a Web3 entrepreneur and co-founder of NFT Factory, an organisation focused on bringing digital art to mainstream audiences. He is also a strategic advisor at NFTPriceFloor and a professional NFT investor at Grail Capital.

Pailhon spent more than ten years in traditional finance, holding positions at Euronext (the Paris stock exchange) and the New York Stock Exchange, where his work spanned equity research, strategy, M&A, and IPO. He entered the blockchain space in 2015. In 2016 and 2017, he served as an advisor to capital market technology firms, venture capital funds, and France FinTech, the French Association of Fintech. He is a lecturer in finance at ESSEC Business School and Pantheon Assas University in France. In April 2023, he spoke at an Institut Choiseul Club Innovation event on Web3, where he described the technology as a return to the original decentralised vision of the internet.