Robert Henker is Researcher, FinTech Entrepreneur, Guest Lecturer and Speaker with a track record of more than 50+ international conferences & corporate events including:

Current roles: Researcher, Entrepreneur and Guest Lecturer

Robert Henker is Founder & CEO of German Deep Tech Quantum GmbH, a deep-tech startup based in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2018 as a spin-off by researchers and PhDs in computer science, the company is part of the German Deep Tech Group. German Quantum's proprietary SaaS platform for Digital Asset Analytics combines real-time market data processing, quantitative analytics and autonomous systems to support institutional digital asset markets. The platform enables the development, deployment and monitoring of Automated Decision Systems (ADS) for algorithmic trading, portfolio management and market operations. Its clients include asset managers, proprietary trading firms and digital asset exchanges, primarily across the APAC region. The platform enables the algorithmic execution of several hundred thousand transactions annually, representing more than €20 billion in annual notional trading volume.
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Robert Henker is a Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of Potsdam and an Affiliated Fellow Researcher at XU Exponential University His research focuses on Autonomous Systems, Automated Decision Systems, Visual Analytics and Quantitative Models for digital financial markets. He initiated and led several industry–academia collaboration projects with renowned industry partners. His most recent projects include ImmoToken, which explores the tokenization of real-world assets, and QAVCM, which develops Quantitative Analytic Models and Explainable AI (XAI) for the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM).
 
2017 to 2022 Mr Henker was Researcher and built up a Digital Asset Analytics research team at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI) at the University of Potsdam, near Berlin Germany. HPI was named after its founder and donator Hasso Plattner co-founder of software company SAP.​ His research bridges computer science and financial markets, covering Autonomous Systems, algorithmic automation, Visual Analytics, quantitative financial models, digital assets, tokenization, decentralized finance (DeFi) and market infrastructure for digital capital markets.

Since 2009 Mr Henker teaches as Guest Lecturer in the fields of IT Strategy & Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at various universities.
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Past Roles: FinTech Founder, Education, Awards
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FinTech Founder
In 2010, Robert Henker founded the FinTech & robo-advisor platform CASHBOARD. As CEO, he scaled the company into one of Germany's leading robo-advisors and one of Europe's top 10 wealth-tech platforms, serving more than 10,000 clients by 2017. Initially bootstrapped, CASHBOARD twice set records as one of Europe's fastest crowdfunded startups, raising €100k in 51 minutes 2012 and €350k in 9 hours 2013. In 2015, the company raised €5 million from leading venture capital investors, including Earlybird, ProSiebenSat.1 and 500 Startups. Early crowdfunding investors ultimately realized a return of 148%.
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Education
Robert Henker holds a Diploma in Business Informatics, is a Certified Portfolio Manager (Deutsche Börse/EBS University) and earned his MBA from ESCP Europe Paris, one of Europe's leading business schools. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Digital Engineering Faculty of the University of Potsdam.

Awards
Mr Henker won several awards, most notably Europe’s highest endowed startup prize and one of the worlds most important startup awards (Forbes) - the SevenVentures Pitch Day at NOAH Leaders Conference London - worth a €4m TV media budget.