Pierre Person

Pierre Person (born 22 January 1989) is a French crypto executive and former politician who has served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Usual Money since 2022. Person is considered a close ally to President Emmanuel Macron in Parliament.

Career 2012–2022: Politics During his studies at the University of Poitiers, Person volunteered as the local chairman of the left-wing National Union of Students of France (UNEF). He was also a member of the Socialist Party until 2012. Ahead of the 2012 French presidential election, he worked for the campaign of Socialist candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

In 2015, Person co-founded "Les Jeunes avec Macron" (JAM) with three friends – Sacha Houlié, Florian Humez and Jean Gaborit – which had more than 22,000 members by September 2017. He later joined Macron's campaign staff ahead of the 2017 presidential elections.

Person has been a member of the National Assembly since the 2017 elections. In parliament, he first served on the Finance Committee from 2017 until 2018, where he was the rapporteur on the Ministry of Culture's annual budget. Since 2019, he has been a member of both the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning.

In November 2018, following the resignation of Christophe Castaner from the position as chairman of LREM, Person briefly considered a candidacy to succeed him but later withdrew from the race for the party leadership; instead, Stanislas Guerini was elected. Person later became Guerini's deputy. In September 2020, he stepped down from that role because of disagreements over the direction of the party; he remained an LREM member.

Person was not seeking re-election in the 2022 French legislative election.

2022–present: Usual Money In 2022, Politico Europe reported that Person had been in talks with potential partners and investors to create a European stablecoin with Carrefour-owned fintech company Market Pay after having been at the forefront of efforts to draft France's cryptocurrency legislation. In 2024, Usual Labs launched Usual Money, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol built on Ethereum.

In 2019, Person was one of five members of the LREM parliamentary group who joined a cross-party initiative to legalize the distribution and use of cannabis.