Strategy
For decisions that affect the whole company: prepared with you, and carried through in a mandate if needed.
Direction · Capital · Succession · Governance
We make the work you already do better.
Advisory for owner-managed companies in Switzerland: we start at the pain point and deliver with our own team until the solution holds in daily work.
Why Pillar 5
Switzerland's pension system rests on three statutory pillars and a fourth, private one. Together they cover traditional provision.
Pillar 5 stands for what lies beyond: the value inside your company, in its processes, its data and its digital assets.
That is where we start: with advice, our own team for delivery, and coordinated specialist partners for the rest. Decisions stay with you.
How we work
- Find the pain point
- Deliver
- Hand over
Services
Advisory
AI in daily operations
We start with the task that costs you time or nerves, and use AI only where it clearly makes the work easier.
Digital Assets
For holdings that do not fit the classic balance sheet.
Structure · Self-custody · Governance
Project Delivery
Our own team delivers most of it; we coordinate specialist partners for the rest. Access, data and know-how stay with you.
In-house team
Delivered directly by our team.
Specialist partners
Coordinated by Pillar 5.
Pillar 5 does not provide investment advice or asset management with power of disposal over third-party assets under FinSA/FinIA. Information on real-estate projects or specialist-partner services is not a binding offer. Digital assets can be subject to substantial value fluctuations. No third-party custody without a separate agreement. Further information: Legal Notice.
Founder
Gian Seyitcan Senpinar
Founder & Managing Director
Gian Seyitcan Senpinar founded Pillar 5 GmbH in Basel-Stadt and leads its advisory work in strategy, AI and digital assets.
His standard: decisions that are clearly documented and hold up over the long term.
CTO
Felix Ritzi
Chief Technology Officer
Felix Ritzi is CTO of Pillar 5 GmbH, based in Zürich. He founded Ritzi DeFi: systematic DeFi, blockchain and liquidity design.
AI expertise in the advisory team
The advisory team includes a specialist consultant for quantitative analysis and workflow automation.
Seven years of experience in research and data analysis; IBM-certified in Data Science.
Contact
Tell us briefly what it is about, by email or through the form. We usually reply within two working days and say plainly whether Pillar 5 is the right fit.