Sylvain Maillard
Sylvain Maillard (born 28 April 1974) is a French entrepreneur and politician serving both as the member of the National Assembly for the 1st constituency of Paris since 2017 and as the Renaissance group leader in the Assembly since 2023. A member of Renaissance (RE), his constituency encompasses the 1st, 2nd, 8th and part of the 9th arrondissement. In early October 2021, Maillard was named in the Pandora Papers Early life and career Maillard grew up in Versailles, Yvelines and went on to study accounting and auditing at ICS Bégué in Paris and obtained in 1998, the specialized master's degree "Entrepreneurs-Pedagogy HEC Entrepreneurs" from the Grenoble Business School. Participating in the Erasmus programme, he studied political science at the University of Munich. In December 1999, he began his national service in Stuttgart as a cooperant abroad. Maillard returned to France in April 2001, creating the company Alantys Technology (a company specializing in the distribution of electronic components) in Argenteuil in the Val d'Oise, then several of its subsidiaries. The company is still active as of 2019. Political career A successive member of the Union for French Democracy, the Centrists and the Union of Democrats and Independents, Maillard has been a