Bernard Riedmatten

Bernard de Riedmatten is a Swiss fiduciary and corporate-services executive associated with Arkion, the Geneva-headquartered independent multi-family office founded in 2001 by chartered accountant and private banker Eric Halff. The Arkion Group advises families, individuals and companies on wealth administration, estate planning, tax, and financial and corporate services. Beyond the Geneva parent (Arkion SA), the group built out a holding company (Arksys SA) and a trustee entity in Fribourg (Arkion Trustees SA) in 2003, plus Arkion Limited in London and further entities in New Zealand and Hong Kong to serve clients internationally.

Within this group, de Riedmatten held senior governance roles. Swiss commercial-registry records show he served as "administrateur président" (board president / chairman) of Arkion Trustees SA in Fribourg, a position he held until around June 2017, when Pierre-Jean Gritti succeeded him as president. Registry data also indicates he was previously a member of the board of Arkion SA (Geneva), from which he is likewise no longer listed as an officer. His contact details still resolve to the Arkion domain and Geneva office.

It is worth noting that the "Angel Investors / Seed Round" framing in the known stub data comes from an investor-aggregator classification. Extensive searching of public sources surfaced no verifiable individual angel or seed investments attributable to him; his documented career is that of a trust/family-office director rather than a named startup backer. Founders should treat the angel-investor label with caution and verify directly.

There is a separately documented Swiss public figure, "Mr. Bernard de Riedmatten (Switzerland)," who chaired an ITU Additional Plenipotentiary Conference in Geneva in 1992. Whether this is the same individual could not be confirmed and should not be assumed.

• No publicly stated personal investment thesis could be found. He does not appear to publish deal criteria, target check sizes, or sector preferences.
• His verifiable professional orientation is wealth structuring, trusts, estate/tax planning and corporate services through the Arkion Group — i.e., a private-client / family-office lens rather than a venture-style startup thesis.
• The aggregator-assigned parameters ("Angel Investor," "Seed Round") are unconfirmed; no supporting quotes, portfolio, or fund documentation were located.