G illes Martin is a French self-made billionaire who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Eurofins Scientific, a global leader in bio-analytical testing services. With a PhD in biophysics and statistics, he founded the company in 1987 in his home region of Nantes, France. The company's first major innovation was a patented method for analyzing the authenticity of wine.

He has since built Eurofins into a massive global enterprise with a network of hundreds of laboratories across the world. The company provides a vast range of testing services for the food, pharmaceutical, and environmental industries, analyzing the safety, purity, and authenticity of products. He has grown the company at a relentless pace through a strategy of acquiring hundreds of small, specialized laboratories and integrating them into his global network. The publicly traded company's massive growth has made him one of France's wealthiest entrepreneurs.