Board of Directors and Committee
Marc Deschenaux
President & Founder
Marc Deschenaux is a world expert in Corporate Finance from private offerings to Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s).
He raised private and public, equity and debt, for companies internationally.
He also financed various types of operations, from import/export transactions to Real Estate Investment Trusts and organized governments loans.
Richard Ormond
Treasurer
Prior to joining FGP Capital in 2012, Richard ORMOND spent 22 years as client and fund manager with Pictet & Cie. He was heading the portfolio managers within the centralized portfolio management unit since 2007 and assumed responsibility for managing the bank’s Asian, US focused and Swiss model portfolios. Since 2002, he was responsible for overall portfolio management for Anglo-Saxon clients in the Private Banking Department in Geneva. and client relationship management.
Gilles Léraillé
Secretary & Founder
Advisor to the Executive Board of the DOC Research Institute, Berlin/Geneva, and to the DOC Endowment in Switzerland.
Former member of the board and former CEO of SICPA Global Fluids Integrity SA (SICPA GFI)
Various Senior Management positions in the banking sector at Banque PARIBAS in Germany, then at WestLB Europa Bank as CEO & Country Manager for Turkey.
Christian Frampton
Treasurer
Experienced Managing Partner with a demonstrated history of working in the investment management industry.
Skilled in Asset Management, Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Marketing.
Strong business development professional with a hands on expertise in finance. Christians brings in three decade of pristine experience to the team and our clients.
Laurent Briffaz
Laurent has joined the IPO Institute with the intention to evolve and build with the best of the industry.
His two goals are to promote IPO Conferences on worldwide financial market places and within the cooperation of the IPO Institute think tank members co-create a “Time Market”.
Involved for 30 years in accounting, tax and finance, specialize in corporate taxes, he helps and serves international SMEs to grow in 5 continents, as founder of the Swiss fiduciary group Office Consultant started in 1999.
As projects man, Laurent participated to many unique adventures; a racing game software with F1 World Champion, a metaphysic comic, bees hives promotion in city…and many more projects, the two latest being the Experts promotion platform bizviz® and the data classification software Clarisse®.
Continually in the move, on projects, sitting on Boards of Directors or cooperating in a think tank you can find Laurent either in some cities or in a Mongol yurt in the nature with animals.
Laurent speaks, French, English, German and some Spanish and is joyful to have relation with associated of all nationalities and cultures.