IPSE - Key Persons


Aston Messiqa

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Mentored by former president of Universal Pictures, Aston has been hands on in T.V, film production & development. Working alongside a U.S entertainment company to produce/distribute a slate of movies for a global audience. In 2018 Aston developed entertainment initiatives in the Middle East and act as a bridge to Hollywood. Co-founder of a Saudi based entertainment company.

Christian Frampton

Job Titles:
  • General Secretary
  • Partner
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 since 1991. Christians brings in three decade of pristine experience to the team and our clients.

Gilles Léraillé

Job Titles:
  • Partner / Advisor to the Executive Board of the DOC Research Institute, Berlin / Geneva, and to the DOC Endowment in Switzerland
Advisor to the Executive Board of the DOC Research Institute, Berlin/Geneva, and to the DOC Endowment in Switzerland.

Marc Deschenaux - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Founder
  • Founder
  • Partner
  • Expert in Corporate Finance
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. His specialization is corporate generalist legal and financial advisor with strong financing expertise and experience. He provides preemptive legal support in French, Italian, English or German. He focuses on securities law, trading law and intellectual property. He adds high premium on contract drafting and complex financing negotiation. Marc Deschenaux was involved in Entertainment & Music Industry. In 1998, he founded the World Intellectual Property Securities Exchange Corporation (WIPSEC), the first exchange quoting a new generation of securities representing ownership of a patent, a trademark, a music work, a movie or a technology. For the first time, an investor could invest purely in artistic creation or in technology without worrying about management. In this venture, he allied the two fields he was involved in and made one of his dreams come true: to help artists and inventors raise the funds they need to create, through a financial market investing purely in the application of an idea. He sat on the Boards of Directors of more than fifty companies worldwide. He founded 48 companies, he sold 32 of them at a profit and only 7 failed. Through Aback, a record label, he produced artists of various genre. Through Publishing World, he acquired publishing and neighbouring rights from songwriters and artists.

Richard Ormond - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • 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.