Founded by industry-leading experts, Amfileon specializes in the development of quantitative financial market models. This is based on state-of-the-art technologies in the field of data analysis and deep financial market experience.
Our team consists of quantitatively oriented, detail-focused scientists. Our employees have a first-class education in computer science, mathematics, physics or similar quantitative fields and also many years of relevant practical experience.
Our development process is modeled on academic practices, especially because we believe in the benefits of close collaboration and free exchange of information. This is supported by our corporate structure and the associated unique profit participation program, which creates congruence of interests between investors, employees and shareholders.
Team
Sebastian Helmensdorfer, CFA, PhD
Board of Directors
Before founding Amfileon AG, Sebastian worked for more than 10 years in the financial industry as a specialist for quantitative methods.
Most recently, he was Chief Investment Officer at Quants Vermoegensmanagement AG, prior to this as partner and shareholder at RP Crest GmbH.
He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Warwick.
Maximilian Schreyer, PhD
Board of Directors
In addition to his activities at Amfileon AG, Maximilian is a member of the Management Board of Quants Vermoegensmanagement AG. Prior to that, he was a managing partner at enspire eventmanagement GmbH.
He holds his PhD in Business Administration from the University of Bayreuth.
Julian Bayerl, PhD
Quantitative Portfolio Manager
Julian holds a PhD in mathematics from Peking University. His PhD topic was the p-adic Riemann-Hilbert correspondence – a deep mathematical result that establishes a connection between p-adic analysis and algebraic geometry.
Andreas Denner, PhD
Quantitative Portfolio Manager
Before joining Amfileon, Andreas worked at Aspect Capital and UniCredit, among others.
He received his PhD in Mathematics from the Technical University of Munich.
Ramsundar Govindarajan
Quantitative Developer
Ramsundar has held the position of Senior Developer at prominent organizations such as Allianz Global Investors, Milburn Ridgefield Corporation, and Dell. He recently accomplished his Master’s in Data Engineering and Analytics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Alexander Haupt, PhD
Quantitative Portfolio Manager
Before joining Amfileon, Alexander worked as a Data Scientist at a management consultancy.
He studied mathematics in Cambridge and received his PhD from the TUHH in Hamburg.
Christina Hohenstatter
Head of People & Culture
Christina has an IT background and worked for many years in consulting and as a software developer.
With her move into the FinTech industry almost 10 years ago, she took on increasing responsibility for People relatet topics – recruiting, organizational development, employee retention & leadership development are her focus areas.
At our company, she is responsible for the People & Culture department.
Omar Elfatairy
Working student Data Engineer
Omar worked as a research assistant at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he conducted research tasks. At the moment he pursues a Master’s degree in Data Engineering and Analytics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), focusing on Data Engineering and Analytics.
At Amfileon Omar supports our Research team.
Thomas Trenner, PhD
Quantitative Portfolio Manager
Prior to joining Amfileon, Thomas worked in various quantitative roles at industry-leading companies like Oxford Asset Management, Citigroup and Nomura.
He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
Markus Sauter, PhD
Quantitative Portfolio Manager
Prior to joining Amfileon Markus worked in various quantitative investment roles in industry-leading companies across the Sell and Buys-side including Principal Global Investors and Virtu (formerly ITG).
Markus holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Greenwich.
Carmen Schreyer
Assistant to the Board of Directors
Carmen has many years of experience as an executive assistant and worked as a project manager in the event industry before joining Amfileon.
Tim von Nardroff
Quantitative Developer
Tim has over 25 years of experience delivering electronic trading software solutions within a wide range of top-tier investment banks, exchanges and hedge funds in Europe and the US.
Tim has a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Cardiff University.
Markus Guggenmos
Supervisory Board
Markus is the founder of a leading laser technology company, Arges GmbH. He managed and enlarged Arges GmbH for over 30 years until its sale to Novanta Group in 2019. Markus is currently Head of Business Development EMEA at Novanta Group.
Prof. Dieter Kempf
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
After 13 years in the auditing and consulting business and 25 years as Member of the Board (thereof almost 20 years as CEO) of an IT-Software and Services Company, Dieter is now in several Supervisory Board and Advisory Board functions. He also served as President of BITKOM e.V. the German Federation of IT and Telecommunications Industry and the BDI e.V., the Federation of German Industries.
Matthias van Randenborgh
Supervisory Board
Matthias is CEO of MAM-Partners AG. After seven years in derivatives trading at two major banks, he became a serial entrepreneur in asset management. He was founder and CIO of the asset management boutiques Vescore, LPX, CYD and RP Crest.
Prof. Dr. Joerg Robert Osterrieder
Scientific Board
Joerg Osterrieder is Associate Professor of Finance and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and Professor of Sustainable Finance at Bern Business School in Switzerland. He has more than 15 years of experience in financial statistics, quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, and the digitization of the finance industry.
Previously he worked as an executive director at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, as quantitative analyst at AHL as well as a member of the senior management at Credit Suisse Group.
Georg Ostrovski, PhD
Scientific Board
For the last 10 years, Georg was a research engineer at Google DeepMind.
He currently leads DeepMind’s Reinforcement Learning Engineering team.
He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the
University of Warwick