Meet our founding President

My name is Mathieu Clément. For nearly two decades, I have worked across finance and technology. My focus has consistently been on solving complex problems and building robust financial systems.  

My career began in 2007 as a financial consultant in Paris, working closely with asset managers. I then transitioned into the banking sector in Luxembourg, advancing from a quantitative analyst to a portfolio manager, and eventually leading portfolio management teams. During this time, my work focused on modernizing portfolio construction and creating custom investment solutions.  

In 2020, I had the opportunity to help build a bank entirely from scratch. I joined Alpian as Chief Operating Officer and became CIO in addition to COO. While establishing the operational and IT foundations required to launch the bank, I also led the design and specification of our proprietary portfolio management system. We built a model that integrated advanced financial client profiling with impact investing and ESG factors.  

Building a modern digital private bank exposed the friction of working with existing technology. While implementing our core banking architecture, I experienced firsthand how difficult it was to integrate with legacy platforms. Adapting these older systems to our modern needs required expensive and untimely custom developments.  

We identified a clear pain point in the market. Today, private banks are forced into a difficult compromise: choose between legacy systems that offer necessary functionality but are burdened by rigid technology, or modern core systems that are agile but entirely focused on retail banking.  

When the chance arose to create a solution for this exact gap, assembling the talented Light Frame team was an easy decision. Through our shared network, I reconnected with a group of people united by a deep, hands-on understanding of these industry challenges and a clear vision to solve them.  

That is why we are building Light Frame, an API-first core banking platform designed specifically to handle the complex needs of private banks and wealth managers. Because the platform is built from first principles, the integration friction I experienced in the past is eliminated.  

I am excited to be a part of this team and to help redefine the technological foundation of private banking.

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