Team

Daniel Willmann is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Othoz and the first point of contact for our clients. In addition to strategic corporate development, he is particularly responsible for product design and fund management.

Daniel gained professional experience in various professional services organizations in Munich, Frankfurt and London and worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the RWTH Aachen University.

Daniel studied economics with a focus on financial accounting and empirical asset pricing at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, DE), the Stephen M. Ross School of Business (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK). He received his doctorate from RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, DE) and was a visiting researcher at Wharton Business School (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US). Daniel is a recipient of the Anthony Hopwood Award of the London School of Economics for academic achievement and has published several articles on his empirical financial market research.

Mathias Eitz is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Othoz. In addition to strategic corporate development, he is responsible in particular for the areas of Machine Learning Research and Software Engineering.

Mathias has founded and built several companies in the fields of software and artificial intelligence. He has 20 years of experience in professional software development and 10 years of experience in machine learning.

Mathias holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), a Diploma in Computer Science from the TU Berlin and a Master of Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. In addition to his work at the TU Berlin, Mathias has been a guest researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts, US) and Brown University (Rhode Island, US). Mathias has published several widely cited research articles on the interface between computer vision and machine learning and has served as a reviewer for numerous scientific journals.

Stephan Schneider is Managing Director of Othoz Capital GmbH. In addition to strategic corporate development, he is particularly responsible for portfolio management.

Stephan has more than 16 years of experience in the asset management industry. He has held different management positions in a leading quantitative asset management boutique where he was responsible for different areas and teams in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Stephan holds a degree in economics (Dipl.-Volksw.) from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich with a focus on capital market research and financing. He also holds a CIIA diploma and a CEFA degree.

Ingo Völker is Managing Director of Othoz Capital GmbH. He is responsible for the operational business units and all regulatory requirements in connection with our investment solutions and the management of a supervised securities institution. In this capacity, he also heads the Legal & Compliance division.

Ingo has more than 20 years of experience in the asset management industry. He helped to build up an investment boutique in management positions and was responsible for the organizational structures required by regulation. He has many years of experience with both the German and the Luxembourg financial supervisory authorities (BaFin, CSSF) and served as a member of the board of directors of several SICAVs.

Ingo holds a degree in law from the Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. In addition to his professional activities, he has been a founding member of the Münchner Finance Forum e.V..

Julien Florian Jensen is Executive Director at Othoz and jointly responsible for business development and fund management.

Julien has already co-founded and developed the asset management boutique KJL Capital GmbH, Frankfurt, which has a product partnership with Othoz. Prior to this, he gained professional experience in investment banking (equity derivatives trading/risk management) and asset management (portfolio management) in Frankfurt, Zurich and Hong Kong.

Julien studied economics at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, DE), HEC Genève (Geneva, CH) and NEOMA Business School (Reims, Paris, FR).

Peter Oertmann is a shareholder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Othoz. Together with the management team, he shapes the investment processes and shares responsibility for strategic corporate development and product design.

Peter has more than 30 years of experience in the capital markets and is committed to innovation in the financial industry as an entrepreneur, mentor, and advisor. He has built up several companies and has spent many years in executive positions (CEO, CIO, Board of Directors) at regulated asset management companies in Germany, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, as well as on investment committees of institutional investors and family businesses.

Peter is Honorary Professor of Business Administration, in particular Asset Management at the TUM School of Management of the Technical University of Munich. He is also a member of the board of INQUIRE Europe and the Munich Finance Forum and a member of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.

Peter holds a PhD in Economics (Finance) from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), a Master of Arts in Economics from the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, USA, and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He has published two books and more than 30 academic and professional articles on asset pricing, portfolio management and quantitative investment strategies.

Ronald Richter is co-founder of Othoz and works as Principal Machine Learning Engineer. He is jointly responsible for the new and further development of our machine learning models as well as the necessary software and data infrastructure.

Ronald studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, DE) and graduated with a degree in computer science. He then worked for five years as a research associate and during this time did research in particular in the fields of Computational Geometry and Computer Vision. He is author and co-author of several articles in international journals.

Ronald can draw on a wealth of experience of over 20 years in professional software development. One focus of his work has always been the analysis of highly complex systems and the design and implementation of clearly structured and at the same time high-performance software systems.

David Dümig is Portfolio Manager at Othoz and works in the areas of fund management and quantitative research.

David has more than 10 years of professional experience in asset management. He has gained extensive experience in the management of investment funds and overlay mandates and in the development of quantitative investment strategies and processes. As part of his professional activities, he has also been scientifically engaged in the application of machine learning for the selection of securities.

David holds a master's degree from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (Frankfurt, DE) and also studied at King's College (London, GB), the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, GB) and Stanford University (California, USA) as part of his academic education. In addition, he completed a Bachelor Professional of Banking from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management (Frankfurt, DE) and a vocational training as Banking Professional at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Offenbach, DE). David was honoured for his academic achievements as best in class for the Bachelor Professional of Banking, the Bachelor in Banking and Finance, and the Vocational Training as Banking Professional, and received the Germany Scholarship and the Frankfurt School Alumni Scholarship.

Andreas Fuest is a Senior Quantitative Investment Researcher at Othoz. He is primarily involved in the development of models and algorithms for risk forecasting across all asset classes and, based on this, the design and implementation of dynamic allocation and portfolio protection strategies.

Prior to joining Othoz, Andreas worked as a Quantitative Portfolio Manager and Senior Quantitative Researcher at Deutsche Bank Group (DWS, Sal. Oppenheim) and Harald Quandt Group, respectively, primarily in the multi-asset space.

Already during his PhD in statistics at University of Munich (LMU), Andreas developed innovative models for risk forecasting in electronic trading systems. He is co-author of several publications at the interface of financial econometrics and statistical learning and presented his research at high-level international conferences. Previously, he earned degrees in statistics (LMU) and economics (University of Münster).

Thilo Kind is a Senior Quantitative Investment Researcher at Othoz who works on machine learning based asset pricing algorithms which are guided by structural macro-finance models.

Thilo has over 10 years of research experience in financial economics. Before joining Othoz, he was a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for financial research in Frankfurt, focussing on asset pricing and macroeconomics. For his academic achievements, he received the AQR Asset Management Fellowship Award, the Economic and Social Research Council Scholarship, and a membership to the German National Academic Foundation.

Thilo holds a PhD and a Master in finance from London Business School, a Master of philosophy in finance and financial engineering from the University of Cambridge, as well as undergraduate degrees in physics and economics from the University of Heidelberg.

Sebastian joined our Business Development team in December 2022. He gained four years institutional sales experience with AllianceBernstein in London. Prior to that he worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the trade finance department. He did his Master studies in Global Business at the University of Linz and besides that he holds an MBA in International Business from National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung as well as a B.A. in International Management from Hochschule Augsburg.

Juli joined our team on January 2023 and she will be supporting our Managing Directors Daniel and Mathias in their daily business. The last four years she was working as a Freelance Virtual Assistant as well as a Systemic Coach in the personal development sector. Before that she was part of hub:raum (Deutsche Telekom's incubator) and Microsoft Ventures accelerator in Berlin.

Michelle is the Senior HR Manager at Othoz and therefore the first point of contact for employees and applicants. She is responsible for the entire employee life-cycle and accompanies employees from the moment they join Othoz until they leave. She places particular emphasis on individual support and the creation of specifically adapted development plans for teams and colleagues.

Before joining Othoz, Michelle worked in several Berlin startups such as Liefery, Juniqe and ArtNight, where she set up or managed the HR department.

During her studies at the University of Applied Sciences, she specialised in Entrepreneurship and Human Resources & Organisation in her business studies. In her master's degree in business psychology, she deepened the topics of leadership and human resources development.

Grigory Bordyugov joined Othoz as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in July 2021. He enjoys working at the interface between designing new ML models and solving engineering tasks around their production deployment.

Grigory received his doctoral degree in Theoretical Physics from the Technical University of Berlin. Before joining Othoz, he worked in academic research, publishing more than twenty original research papers. Additionally, Grigory worked at the number one European online fashion retailer Zalando, where he built ML-backed recommendation systems serving thousands of requests a second.

Benjamin Trendelkamp-Schroer works as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Othoz. He is jointly responsible for the new and further development of our machine learning models and the design of algorithms for financial market analyses.

He received his PhD from the Institute of Mathematics at the Free University of Berlin (Berlin, DE) and the Berlin Mathematical School (Berlin, DE) on statistical methods for rare events in protein dynamics and Markov State models.

Benjamin holds a degree in physics from the Technical University of Dresden (Saxony, DE) where he did research on quantum information and open quantum systems and was a visiting scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz (California, USA).

Benjamin is co-author of the Python open source frameworks msmtools and pyemma for the statistical analysis of protein dynamics and has published several articles on quantum information and rare event estimation.

Valentin Markounikau is a Senior Software Engineer at Othoz. He is jointly responsible for the development of the general software infrastructure and in particular for the analysis tools for monitoring strategy performance.

Valentin holds a master's degree in physics from the Belarusian State University (Minsk, BY) and a doctorate in neuroscience from the Ruhr University Bochum (Bochum, DE). During his doctoral studies, Valentin did research in the field of Computational Neuroscience with a focus on computational models of visual information processing. He has published the results of his research in an internationally recognized scientific journal.

Valentin has over 15 years of experience in professional software development for the automotive and medical industries as well as international financial services companies. Valentin's specialty is high throughput backend applications that are both efficient and easy to maintain. Most recently, Valentin was responsible for the development of the energy trading and risk management functions for an energy trading company.

Anton Daneyko is a Senior Software Engineer at Othoz. His area of responsibility is the design and implementation of the software and data infrastructure.

Anton holds a diploma in physics from the Belarusian State University (Minsk, BY) and a doctorate in computational physics from the Philipps Universität Marburg (Marburg, DE). During his doctoral studies Anton implemented hydrodynamics simulation software for supercomputing platforms (HPC) and used it to generate data for his scientific publications. The scientific results were published in a series of papers in high impact factor journals.

Anton has over 15 years of experience in professional software development with technical expertise spanning from web-applications in finance industry to high-performance computing in engineering. Anton’s specialty is performance optimization (algorithmic and hardware) and statistical processing of large volumes of data. Most recently, Anton was responsible for the development of the energy trading and risk management platform for an energy trading company.

Arne Rosenberg is a Machine Learning Engineer at Othoz. He develops holistic equity selection models to predict the cross-section of stock returns in financial markets. Moreover, he conducts experiments and evaluations using large amounts of data, guided by a hypothesis-driven research agenda.

Arne studied physics at the Technical University of Munich, where he conducted research on the morphology of biological networks. Arne was honored for his academic achievements and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Pengxu is an Associate in Portfolio Management at Othoz and works in the areas of fund management and sustainability.

Prior to joining Othoz, Pengxu has gained working experiences in quantitative asset management (product management and portfolio management) in Frankfurt and Munich.

Pengxu holds a master’s degree from EBS Business School (Oestrich-Winkel, DE), where he focused on Capital Markets and Risk Management.

Hannah is working as Business Development Assistant at Othoz and is the first point of contact for our network partners. She takes on responsibility and tasks in the areas of marketing, human resources, administration and data protection.

Hannah is a systemic organizational consultant and facilitator with a focus on impact-oriented strategy development and collaborative management formats. She is passionately committed to helping people and organizations achieve their goals.

Hannah gained professional experience in legal and academic professional services organizations and worked as an assistant to the board of a renowned financial services provider. One focus of her work there was the development and implementation of innovative service concepts. The focus of her business studies was on health management.

Arthur has over 10 years of experience as a Software Engineer. In the company he founded in Brazil, he built a large platform for the creation of online stores. Later, he worked as a DevOps Engineer for a fast-growing startup in the field of sales software. He received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo, where he studied Nonlinear Optimization and applied it to problems in Computer Geometry.

Dragan Cvetinovic joined Othoz as a Senior Software Engineer in February 2023, to work on the data infrastructure empowering our AI driven investment platform. Dragan has more than 15 years of experience in Software Engineering, Machine Learning and Finance.

Before joining Othoz, he was involved in the development and launch of an AI-driven ad blocking product that now has more than 100 million users worldwide. Prior to that, he worked on a search engine, designing and implementing its distributed index storage and backend system. Previously, he was a Quantitative Analyst, developing financial risk models. Dragan studied Computer Science at the University of Belgrade and holds a master's degree in Financial Engineering from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Huijun Li joined our Quantitative Investment Research - Asset Allocation team as a Data Scientist in October 2022. Huijun is currently pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Statistics at Humboldt University of Berlin and spent one year at University College London studying M.Sc. Financial Mathematics. Prior to joining Othoz, she gained professional experience at VC fund equation AG, PWC Germany and FinTech solarisBank AG.

Etienne is pursuing a master’s degree in engineering at CentraleSupélec (Paris-Saclay University). Prior to joining Othoz, he gained experience as an intern in the financial engineering team of the French investment bank Natixis.

Sammy joined our Equity Selection team as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern in February 2023. Currently, Sammy is pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Quantitative Finance at ECE Paris Engineering School. Prior to joining Othoz, he gained professional experience at PWC Germany and at ELM LE BLANC.

Daniel joined our Asset Allocation team as a Data Science Intern in January 2023. At Othoz, he develops and evaluates uncertainty forecasts for stock returns. Daniel is currently pursuing a M.Sc. degree in Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on Mathematical Statistics, Probability Theory, and Machine Learning.

Prior to joining Othoz, he received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and spent a semester abroad at the University of Waterloo (ON, Canada). Daniel was honored for his academic achievements and received a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Kenenisa Busch is our youngest team member at Othoz. Kenenisa just graduated from high school in Austria and wants to gain work experience before he starts his studies. He enjoys the challenge of learning new skills and tackling complex problems. Therefore, he will introduce a new collaboration tool at Othoz, as an intern in Business Development. Previously he gained experience as an intern at HYVE in the area of innovation strategy consulting.

Peter Oertmann is a shareholder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Othoz. Together with the management team, he shapes the investment processes and shares responsibility for strategic corporate development and product design.

Peter has more than 30 years of experience in the capital markets and is committed to innovation in the financial industry as an entrepreneur, mentor, and advisor. He has built up several companies and has spent many years in executive positions (CEO, CIO, Board of Directors) at regulated asset management companies in Germany, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, as well as on investment committees of institutional investors and family businesses.

Peter is Honorary Professor of Business Administration, in particular Asset Management at the TUM School of Management of the Technical University of Munich. He is also a member of the board of INQUIRE Europe and the Munich Finance Forum and a member of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research.

Peter holds a PhD in Economics (Finance) from the University of St. Gallen (HSG), a Master of Arts in Economics from the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, USA, and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He has published two books and more than 30 academic and professional articles on asset pricing, portfolio management and quantitative investment strategies.

Dr. Werner Brandt is a partner and advisor of Othoz. He supports the management team in corporate governance and strategic corporate development.

He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of RWE AG, Essen and ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, Unterföhring, and a member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, Munich. From 2001 to 2014 he was Chief Financial Officer of SAP SE, where he also served as Chief Human Resources Officer and Director of Labor Relations for the last three years. From 1999 to 2001 he was a member of the Management Board and Chief Financial Officer of Fresenius Medical Care AG, where he was also Labor Relations Director. From 1992 to 1999, he was a member of the Management Board and Vice President European Operations of Baxter Deutschland GmbH. There he was responsible for Baxter's finances in Europe.

He began his professional career at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Stuttgart. In 1981, he completed his studies in business administration at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He completed his doctorate at the TU Darmstadt in 1991.

Being a part of the venture capital ecosystem for over two decades, Christoph has priceless experience as a dealmaker and a strong intuition for investments.

While studying for his MBA in the US in the early 90s, Christoph became infected with the startup virus, influencing his life ever since. Following, he earned his PhD from LMU and worked as a strategy consultant in Frankfurt and San Francisco, before refocusing on venture.
His approach to investing in sustainable business models and founders is part of the DNA which forms the heart of Acton Capital today. As a Munich native, Christoph cuts to the chase rather than spending talk time on diplomatic skills.

He spends his spare time with family and friends – preferably on hiking trails to Bavaria’s peaks or on the slopes.

Julien Florian Jensen is Executive Director at Othoz and jointly responsible for business development and fund management.

Julien has already co-founded and developed the asset management boutique KJL Capital GmbH, Frankfurt, which has a product partnership with Othoz. Prior to this, he gained professional experience in investment banking (equity derivatives trading/risk management) and asset management (portfolio management) in Frankfurt, Zurich and Hong Kong.

Julien studied economics at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, DE), HEC Genève (Geneva, CH) and NEOMA Business School (Reims, Paris, FR).

Sebastian Klein is shareholder and advisor of Othoz. He supports the leadership team in strategic business development.

Sebastian has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry. This includes positions at one of the leading management consultancies, operational CEO positions in asset management and private banking as well as several supervisory board mandates. Sebastian Klein combines in particular strategy and capital market expertise. He already pursued this combination during his doctorate, which he completed at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, DE), as well as his business administration studies.

Sebastian Klein is shareholder and advisor of Othoz. He supports the leadership team in strategic business development.

Sebastian has more than 25 years of experience in the financial industry. This includes positions at one of the leading management consultancies, operational CEO positions in asset management and private banking as well as several supervisory board mandates. Sebastian Klein combines in particular strategy and capital market expertise. He already pursued this combination during his doctorate, which he completed at the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management (Vallendar, DE), as well as his business administration studies.