Nationality French Name Nicolas Chaillan | Years active 2000–present | |
Born August 3, 1984 (age 40) ( 1984-08-03 ) Marseille, France Residence Washington, DC, United States Occupation Entrepreneur, investor, expert in security, software developer Home town Marseille, France, United States Title Chairman at Nesting Partners, CISO at Cyber Revolution | ||
Nicolas M. Chaillan (born August 3, 1984) is a French technology serial entrepreneur, software developer, expert in cyber security, and investor. As of 2015, he is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of several companies. Chaillan is currently the Chief Executive Officer and founder of AFTER-MOUSE.COM, AKT IP Ventures, anyGuest.com, and Wait List Ordering LLC. He is the Chairman of Holding AKT and Nesting Partners LLC. He is also the founder and Chief Information Security Officer of Cyber Revolution, Inc.
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Early life and education
Chaillan was born in Marseille, France, to Sylvie Chaillan and French journalist, Bernard Chaillan.
WORLDAKT, GAMESAKT and SOFTAKT
In 2000, at only 16, Chaillan became one of France's youngest entrepreneurs by creating WORLDAKT and online game servers (GAMESAKT). Chaillan is considered to be a leading cyber security expert in France, and has participated in multiple industry conferences and has worked in close collaboration with government officials.
PHP
In 2002, Nicolas Chaillan officially joined the PHP team to help with the development of several extensions involving secure online payment such as SPPLUS and Cybermut.
AFTER-MOUSE.COM
In 2009, Chaillan founded AFTER-MOUSE.COM, a company that specializes in the development of multi-touch and motion recognition business applications and was quickly recognized by Microsoft as an industry pioneer and named Startup of the Day.
anyGuest.com
Nicolas Chaillan founded and created anyGuest.com in 2013. anyGuest.com is targeting the hospitality industry with an ordering and payment mobile app and won the best Innovation Award of IHMRS in 2013.
Nesting Partners & AKT IP Ventures
In 2014, Nicolas Chaillan became the founder of Nesting Partners, a software incubator whose goal is to incubate companies based on patents. The goal is to create a company around a product that can be sold within a ten to fifteen month timeframe.
Chaillan launched a targeted $20M fund in April 2015 in order to incubate 10 to 15 companies this year
Cyber Revolution, Inc.
With over 15 years of experience in business, Chaillan founded Cyber Revolution, Inc. in July 2015. Cyber Revolution offers preventive and corrective cyber security plans that bring back control to small and larger organizations with simple monthly fees.
Personal life
Nicolas Chaillan is married to Ashton Nicole Chaillan (born Messer) and lives in Washington, D.C.