Toussaint ROZE

About Toussaint ROZE

Toussaint Roze is a French entrepreneur best known for founding and leading FILAE, a digital platform focused on family history and genealogical research. Born in 1975 in Angers, he developed an early interest in both genealogy and computing. As a teenager, he began building one of the first genealogy software products for Windows, an initiative that foreshadowed a career built around applying technology to historical records, archival access, and family heritage. In 1994, while still very young, he founded his first company, Infoduc. He later created NotreFamille.com in 1999 and became its Chief Executive Officer. The company grew into a broader internet group offering several consumer-facing services, including genealogy.com, notrefamille.com, cadeaux.com, and other family-oriented websites. Under his leadership, the business reached a significant milestone with a stock market listing on Alternext in 2007. This phase of his career shows a strong ability to build digital businesses, develop online audiences, and scale a niche concept into a structured market player. At the end of 2015, Roze made a major strategic decision to refocus the group on its original core activity: genealogy. He sold non-core assets and launched Filae in late 2016, taking advantage of the expansion of open data and the growing digitization of public archives in France. FILAE then built a recognized expertise in digitizing, transcribing, indexing, and processing genealogical records, supported by algorithms designed to make ancestral research easier for the public. Corporate and market sources identify him as Chairman and CEO of FILAE, confirming his central role in governance, strategy, and product direction. Roze’s professional profile combines entrepreneurship, digital product development, and sector specialization. Rather than pursuing a broad consumer internet strategy, he chose to deepen expertise in a highly focused niche, turning family history into a scalable digital service. His key achievement is the creation of a leading French online genealogy player positioned at the intersection of technology, data, and heritage preservation.