Mr Henker is a well-known Researcher, Fintech Entrepreneur, Consultant, Honorary Professor and Speaker with a track record of more than 50+ international conferences & corporate events including:

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• NOAH Leaders Conference London

• Innovate Finance Global Summit IFGS London

• SWIFT Innotribe Singapore

• Global Innovation Conference Hack Osaka

• EBS Symposium Oestrich-Winkel

• Future of AI Tel Aviv

• FinTech Junction Berlin

• BVI Asset Management Conference Frankfurt

• DVFA Asset Management Forum

• Capital on Stage Berlin

• FinTech Forum Frankfurt

• Exec I/O Frankfurt/Berlin

• Pirate Summit Cologne

• and many more...
   

 

Current roles: Researcher, CEO & Founder and Guest Lecturer

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Robert Henker is Research Manager at XU Exponential University where he is responsible for research and scientific contribution of a joint research project on the technical, regulatory and economical framework for the Tokenization of real world assets. He focus his research on illiquid assets such as real estate and art.

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Robert Henker is Founder & CEO of German Deep Tech Quantum GmbH, a Deep Tech Startup based in Potsdam, near Berlin (Germany). GDTQ was founded 2018 to fuse the capabilities of a global research network and the strong technology background of its founding team. The company is part of German Deep Tech Group and German Deep Tech Foundation. German Quantums proprietary SaaS platform for Digital Asset Analytics leverages the latest insights from Digital Ledger Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Visual Analytics. In particular, the team in Germany and India applies latest research in Evolutionary & Genetic Algorithms for multiobjective optimization of quantitative digital asset models. In 2021 GDTQ's software platform helped clients trading more than 600m Euro of digital assets.

 

2017 to 2022 Mr Henker was Research Manager and built up a Digital Asset Analytics research team at the prestigious 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 and comprises of 20 professors and more than 200 researchers.​ Mr Henkers research is   focused on financial market aspects of digital assets and crypto currencies such as crypto asset management, algorithmic crypto currency trading, asset tokenization, security tokens, DeFi, CEX & DEX as well as visual data analytics and quantitative models for descriptive and predictive market analysis.

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Furthermore since 2009 Mr Henker teaches as Guest Professor in the fields of Blockchain, Digital Assets, 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 Mr Henker founded the FinTech company CASHBOARD and as CEO scaled it to German market leader and European top-10 wealth tech company with 10k+ clients until 2017. Initially bootstrapped  the company was awarded two times Europe's fastest crowdfunded startup after it raised €100k in 51 minutes 2012 and 350k€ in 9 hours 2013. In 2015 it raised €5m from top-tier VC’s including Earlybird, Pro7Sat.1 and 500Startups and the crowd was paid out with a return of 148%.

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Education

Robert Henker holds a Diploma in Business Informatics, is Certified Portfolio Manager Deutsche Börse CME and received his MBA from top 10 world business school ESCP Europe Paris. Since 2009 Mr Henker teaches as Guest Professor in the fields of   IT Strategy & Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at various universities.

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.