Olivier Jaillon

Olivier Jaillon is Chairman of the Board at Wakam, a European B2B2C embedded insurance platform. He previously served as CEO of Wakam from 2018, having acquired the company — then known as La Parisienne Assurances, founded in 1829 — in 2000 and transformed it from a traditional insurer into a digital insurance platform. In 2020, La Parisienne Assurances was rebranded as Wakam, which became a société à mission in April 2021.

Jaillon created his first company at age 19 and launched Assurdiscount.com, the first online insurance site in France, in the late 1990s. He also founded Protegys Group, a brokerage firm designing and distributing insurance products, including via the internet. He has served on the board of Groupe Barrière and was a board member of the Tezos Foundation between 2021 and 2022. As of mid-2025, he holds the role of Vice Chairman at Fondation FondaMental and is President of Off The Grid SRL, a consulting firm based in Milan. He is the author of Patrimoine éphémère (Débats Publics, 2020), which examines the shift toward fractional usage and the decline of ownership and its implications for the insurance sector. He also contributed to Ose ! Tout le monde peut devenir entrepreneur by Alexandre Mars (Flammarion, 2020). Jaillon holds a Master's in Economics and Management from EM Lyon (1992) and completed a leadership and organisational change programme at INSEAD in 2018 under Professor Manfred Kets de Vries.