In 1986, Pierre de Fouquet, managing partner at Iris Capital, a France-based venture capital firm alongside Antoine Garrigues, fellow managing partner, managing strategic investments for Saudi Telecom, France Télécom and Publicis Groupe, helped launch the venture and growth capital arm of the French Caisse des Dépôts, where he was in charge of investments in cinema and television businesses, and then more widely in the media sector.
He currently holds board positions at Editions Montparnasse, Flach Film and Rue des Ecoles. He has also chaired L’Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance (the French venture capital and private equity association) and headed its venture commission. He is a graduate of Institutd’Etudes Politiques de Paris and holds a PhD in economics from University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).