Gerard Felley

Gérard Georges Felley is a Swiss private-banking executive at Lombard Odier. UK Companies House filings identify him as Swiss, resident in Switzerland, born in January 1959, and appointed as a director of Lombard Odier (Europe) S.A. on 29 June 2019.

At Lombard Odier, Felley has held senior private-client leadership roles. In August 2022, the firm identified him as Partner and Chairman of the Swiss Domestic Market in connection with Lombard Odier’s plan to open a Verbier office. In July 2023, Lombard Odier described him as Partner and Head of Swiss and Francophone Private Client Markets.

In September 2024, Lombard Odier announced that Frédéric Praz would become Head of Private Client activities for France, Belgium, and Luxembourg, effective 1 September 2024, as part of Felley’s succession plan ahead of retirement. The same announcement said Felley would continue leading the Grandes Familles teams and remain a member of the Private Clients Executive Committee.

Felley has also represented Lombard Odier in philanthropic and institutional activities. In 2019, CERN’s ATLAS Experiment reported that he presented ATLAS PhD Grant certificates on behalf of Bank Lombard Odier & Co Ltd, after Lombard Odier committed to financially support six ATLAS PhD students over three years through CERN & Society.

• Public sources do not verify the stub claim that Felley is an angel investor, seed investor, or startup investor; the verified record points to private banking and wealth management rather than venture capital.
• His client focus is wealthy families, family offices, entrepreneurs, and private clients in Switzerland and Francophone Europe.
• Lombard Odier’s relevant investment offering includes discretionary and advisory mandates, listed assets, private equity, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, alternative managers, sustainable investments, wealth planning, and family governance.
• Felley’s own stated focus, in Lombard Odier’s 2023 women-and-investing survey, was to “support our clients in managing their assets” by understanding client expectations, including women investors’ expectations around wealth management.
• Lombard Odier’s materials emphasize long-term, bespoke, intergenerational wealth management, wealth preservation, sustainable investing, and private-assets access rather than standardized products.