Executive Team
Frédérique d'ARC
I am an expert gemmologist. For 23 years, I have been involved in a dual activity of international trading of precious and fine gemstones between Asia, Africa, and Europe, and the creation of high-end jewelry for private European clients. All my creations are unique and confidential, some with iconic value...
It is at the source that I have drawn and perfected my knowledge of gemstones through a regular and passionate presence over the years at alluvial deposits in Thailand, Sri Lanka and Madagascar, as well as through international exhibitions in Bangkok and Hong Kong. I have identified the economic circuits of stones, from mining to trading, as well as built a complex network of gems brokers, lapidaries, merchants and companies, both family-owned and multinational.
Today, I am taking a different approach to my career as a gemologist through FREDERIQUE d'ARC, which aims at using gems in luxury object design...
My personal philosophy
My philosophy of gemstones translates from jewelry to luxury and valuable objects:
What is this raw material older than life, which remains after it on the cooled planets and has had the good fortune to hatch? Man admires them for their duration, their hardness, their brilliance. They are fire, water, transparency, brilliance, wealth, power and continue to fascinate humanity through the centuries... A geological, cosmic creation, made of beauty and pleasure of the senses, it is rare, precious, enigmatic, sustainable, prophylactic…
We are in the garden of gems, with the variety, beauty, and poetry of this infinite mineral world; each stone has its own peculiarities, mysteries, and history. A sort of ordered secretion from the depths of the earth, the stone transcends time, it holds secrets and messages. It is also an endless exploration: of colors, dreams, secret passions, family stories, travels, sentimental attachments, and for the most precious ones, financial value...
Indeed, the brilliance, uniqueness and colors of stones, as well as their inclusions intrinsic to their physical properties, as surprising as they are poetic, are all qualities that can sublimate and differentiate luxury packaging, accessories or furniture.
Emmanuel Bazin
After more than thirty years in professions related to energy, industry and finance, I decided to use my experience as an investor and advisor for start-ups and scale-ups in energy and climate technologies to serve and build a new project in a radically different field from my original world: Gems for luxury objects such as packaging, ornamentation and accessories…
My experience in investing in growth companies will be applied in several important areas of a young company's life...
My strengths within FREDERIQUE d'ARC
• Sectorial knowledge: Energy, just like luxury, a great French success with global reach, requires constant monitoring of trends, actors, economic levers, and patient construction of a relational capital on the sector and its adjacent fields.
• Experience with start-ups: Successes and failures in the growth of young companies show the importance of product-market fit, perfect execution, fair margin, and early customer involvement
...in order to energize the FREDERIQUE d’ARC project on its key aspects:
• Build a dense network of related actors: integrators, subcontractors, assemblers, lapidaries, designers who integrate our products as important components into their products sets for their customers, often the major luxury houses.
• Think and act long-term: the value of a project is built over time through repeated, renewed, and improved achievements and is inversely proportional to the short-term maximization of profits.
Thierry Marchal
Luxury Model Designer
Project and Event Communication Specialist
Figurative Painter
My first company was specialized in high-end decoration (Casa Linéa), I then joined RSCG as Artistic Director and later founded my own Agency (La Bonne Agence) specialized in the luxury sector. Today I run a graphic design company and simultaneously pursue a career as a painter. It is these artistic and creative qualities and a good knowledge of luxury that I bring to FREDERIQUE d’ARC.
Advisory Board
Marc Augustin
Founding President of an international MedTech (www.dianosic.com)
Successfully raised Serie A equity and managed start-up international growth
Seasoned entrepreneur, corporate strategic & financial advisory
I began my career in finance in investment banking. After more than fifteen years in strategy/finance/M&A consulting in France and abroad, I co-founded two companies in innovative fields, including a biotech company in 2017.
I would like to offer FREDERIQUE d’ARC my experience as a consultant, including the luxury goods industry, and as an entrepreneur.
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