Born in Paris in 1966 from French diplomat parents, Suremain grew-up in a number of Eastern European and Middle East countries.

In 1986, he got his French baccalaureate in science in Tel Aviv. He briefly studied business, graphic design and product conception.

In July 1989, this allowed him his first venture: creating and distributing the Revolutionary Condom, his way to commemorate the 200 years of the French Revolution.

In 1991 with two friends, he founded Prospekt International, a company based in Nizhni Novgorod (Russia), doing anything from perfume imports to student exchanges and public relations. He worked close to his then mentor, Boris Nemtsov, the provincial governor who later became Putin’s most adverse opponent, assassinated near the Kremlin in 2015.

In 1996, Suremain joined Pharmaciens Sans Frontières, and NGO giving him the amazing opportunity to live in and thoroughly explore Central Asia, a fascinating region he had been repeatedly travelling to. In 1999 this organisation sent him as Head of Mission to Moldova and in 2001 to Cambodia.

In 2004 he spent a year in Myanmar as the Head of the NGO mission Médecins du Monde while his wife remained in Phnom Penh launching with a friend of hers their first business in the country, elsewhere, a sort of concept store with its own designed clothing, restaurant and bar in a colonial garden villa on Pasteur street.

In 2006 in the Cambodian capital, he opened with his wife Pavilion, their first hotel, of just 10 rooms initially, now 36, with 6 swimming pools. Since then, other hotels were opened in Phnom Penh (Kabiki, Blue Lime, Plantation, TeaHouse, Floatation, Penh House and Jungle Addition, White Mansion), in Siem Reap (Templation) and in Kirirom (Hill Station). Those were followed in Phnom Penh by restaurants (The 240, Chinese House, The Bus, Floatation), a beach club on Koh Pich (DIB Club), concept shops (Cambomania, The 240), the city’s first green office park (Aquation) and advised a few other smaller projects in existing properties (The Sixties art-deco condo, Independence Hotel, Dara Angkor hotel, Imperial Garden hotel, Malibu Bungalows, Coconut Club).

He participated to the creation of a chef school (Academy of Culinary Arts), the publication of a book on Khmer Royale Cuisine and the group created the Angkor Data Base, the world’s most complete online information center on Angkor. Since 2005, he has been initiating numerous exhibitions and events supporting the regional art and creativity.

In 2018, the trademark Maads (standing for Marie and Alexis de Suremain and hinting their peculiar business approach…) was created to brand their creative and communication side of all the initiatives. That year, the two developed an innovative bio-climatic glamping concept: the Jungloo.