Marc Deschenaux

Great ideas need capital. Marc René Deschenaux helps audiences understand how and where to find it. Based in New York, this Swiss jurist, investment banker, entrepreneur, and author brings more than 35 years of experience in corporate finance, private offerings, and initial public offerings (IPOs). Registered with FINRA as an Investment Banking Principal through GT Securities, he combines international financing experience with a practical understanding of how transactions are structured, negotiated, and brought to market. He focuses on the challenge that connects entrepreneurs, business leaders, and nonprofit founders: securing the resources to turn ambition into reality.

His signature presentation, “Financing Your Project, Startup, Company, Corporation or Non-Profit—How and Where to Find Capital?”, puts the audience’s financing needs at the center. Marc explains how to identify suitable funding sources, understand what investors, lenders and other funders expect, and build a persuasive case for support. Drawing on his experience in private equity, debt financing, and public markets, he helps participants connect financing options to their organization’s stage, structure, and objectives. Whether the ambition is launching a venture, expanding a business or advancing a nonprofit mission, his approach encourages clearer thinking, stronger preparation and more purposeful conversations with potential funders.

Marc also brings an inventor’s perspective to raising capital. As Founder and President of Intellectual Property Securities Corporation (IPSE) and the inventor of Intellectual Property Direct Securitization, he develops new ways to connect patents, films, music, and other intellectual property with investment capital. His work includes patented technology for intellectual property securities, and his books include Initial Public Offering, Intellectual Property Securitization, and Family Office. This combination of financial practice, legal knowledge and inventive thinking gives audiences a fresh perspective on the assets they own, the opportunities they can present and the financing possibilities they may have overlooked.

A speaker at The SPAC Conference, the Growth Capital Conference at Mar-a-Lago, and before hundreds of thousands of attendees, Marc brings experience addressing audiences interested in investment, entrepreneurship, and business growth. He holds a master’s degree in economic law and a certificate in transnational law from the University of Geneva, and completed Harvard Business School’s Leading with Finance course. Fluent in French, English, Italian and German, he brings an international perspective to the stage. For event organizers seeking substance, originality and practical relevance, his promise is clear: help audiences understand their financing options, recognize whom to approach and prepare to pursue the capital their ambitions require.

Who's Who Legal says: Marc Deschenaux is considered “absolutely brilliant” and “the best of the best” thanks to his “strategic technical expertise” and “unique skill set that is extremely challenging to find among competition”.