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About Founders Bank

Banking, financing, wealth and pensions – one partner for your financial needs.

Banking for people who build

Founders Bank combines Swiss banking experience since 1995 with an entrepreneurial mindset and investment expertise – with one aim: to make financial decisions simpler and better informed.

Key figures (2026)

23.4% Tier 1 ratio
65 Number of employees
>40 Years of experience

Management Committee

Ravish Patil
Ravish Patil CEO

Member of the Management Committee
Andreas V2
Andreas Köster CIO
Marcel Rüede
Marcel Rüede COO

Member of the Management Committee
Irina Bechmann
Dr. Irina Bechmann CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)
Roland Straub
Roland Straub Head of Private Banking

Member of the Management Committee
Christoph Wiederkehr
Christoph Wiederkehr CFO

Member of the Management Committee
Heiri V2
Heinrich Bruhin Head of Pensions

Member of the Management Committee
Karin Hablützel
Karin Hablützel Head of Human Resources

Advisory Board

Philippe Costoletos
Philippe Costoletos
Urs Balzli
Urs Balzli
Viktor Ackermann
Viktor Ackermann

Board of Directors

Constantin Papadimitriou
Constantin Papadimitriou
Chairman
Uwe Krakau
Uwe Krakau
Vice-Chairman
Duarte Moreira
Duarte Moreira
Member
Eric von Graffenried
Eric von Graffenried
Member
FedorV2
Fedor Poskriakov Member

MISSION

More clarity. More financial room to act.

We create financial solutions for people and businesses that build. To do so, we bring together banking, financing, pensions and investments with technology, relevant information and personal expertise – making decisions easier and creating more room for the next step.

 

VISION

The financial platform for people building tomorrow’s economy.

Our vision is a financial world in which businesses understand their financial position better, make decisions faster and gain easier access to the capital they need to grow.
Founders Bank brings together financial management, expertise and access to capital in an increasingly connected platform.

Why Founders Bank?

Entrepreneurs do not need another stand-alone financial solution.

Today, financial decisions are spread across multiple systems and providers: banking, payments, accounting, liquidity, financing, pensions and investments. This makes it harder to maintain a clear view – especially when a business is growing and decisions need to be made faster.

At the same time, Switzerland has strong businesses, considerable innovative capacity and substantial capital. Yet businesses and long-term capital still come together efficiently too rarely.

Manage finances better. Finance growth more effectively.

 

What we want to do differently

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Clarity over fragmentation

Bring relevant financial information and solutions together where they matter for a decision.
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Technology that takes work off your hands

Simplify processes, make information easier to access and make financial connections visible faster.
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Expertise when it makes the difference

Direct access to specialists for decisions that require experience, context and judgement.
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Capital for the next step

Better connect financing – including access to relevant equity capital – with the needs of growing businesses.

For people who build.

Entrepreneurship means making decisions before all the answers are known. Seeing opportunities. Taking responsibility. And turning an idea into something real.

Founders Bank is being built for exactly these people.

A bank that puts capital to work efficiently, makes opportunities easier to understand and gives its clients more room to move forward.

 

Built on experience. Made for tomorrow.

Our bank’s story began in 1995 with the founding of Bank Dominic. Since then, markets, technology and expectations of banks have changed fundamentally. What has remained is the responsibility that comes with managing capital, the importance of sound decisions and the value of personal expertise.

Founders Bank is the next chapter in this evolution. We build on decades of banking experience – and focus it consistently on businesses, people with financial ambitions, partners and institutional investors.

 

Swiss bank. Clear values.

What you want to achieve determines the solution. Not the other way around.

Your goals set the direction – from the first conversation to the next step.

More clarity for better decisions.

Relevant information, options and connections – distilled to what matters..

More financial room to act.

Solutions that give you room to invest, grow and keep building.

Finance, connected.

Banking, financing, pensions and wealth, connected where it matters to you.

Simpler where technology helps.

Digital processes reduce effort and make information available faster.

Personal when experience matters.

Direct access to specialists when a decision needs more context.

Organisation

Locations

Schwyz, Zürich, Rheinfelden, Lausanne, Lugano

Auditor

Grant Thornton

Regulator

FINMA

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