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“I align your audience to the age of Software & Technology with focus on FinTech, Blockchain and Digital Assets by providing highly customized speaker engagements delivered in a pragmatic, provoking and thrilling style.”
– Robert Henker –

 

>50 Conferences in EU, US & APAC...

About

ABOUT

 

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

 

Current roles: Researcher, CEO & Founder and Guest Lecturer

Robert Henker is Research Manager at XU Exponential University where he is responsible for research and scientific contribution of the joint research project ImmoToken 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. For more information visit the research project website ImmoToken or the Section Publications.

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 2023 GDTQ's software platform enabled SaaS clients with the algorithmic execution of more than 600.000 transactions with a GMV of 2.3bn Euro (Linkedin Post with KPI).

 

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.

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.

Past Roles: FinTech Founder, Education, Awards

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%.

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.

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Robert Henker is Entrepreneur, Researcher, Guest Professor and Speaker with a track record of more than 50 conferences in Europe, Asia and US.

ON STAGE

Mr Henker was moderator and speaker at major conferences in Europe, US & Asia

On Stage

SPEAKING

Watch a selection of videos of Mr Henker as moderator, panelist and speaker at conferences, awards and TV interviews.

Speaking

REFERENCES

References
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