The key to success: The people developing AI

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.

David Dümig is Portfolio Manager at Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin. He is responsible for the development and design of dynamic allocation and value protection strategies as well as strategic allocation solutions. Before joining Ultramarin, Andreas worked as a quantitative portfolio manager and senior quantitative researcher in the multi-asset division of Deutsche Bank Group (DWS, Sal. Oppenheim) and the Harald Quandt Group. During his doctoral studies in statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-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 between financial econometrics and statistical learning. Previously, he earned degrees in statistics (LMU) and economics (University of Münster).

Anton Daneyko is a Senior Software Engineer at Ultramarin. 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.

Benjamin Trendelkamp-Schroer works as Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ultramarin. 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.

Daniel Willmann is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin. 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.

Thilo Kind is a Senior Quantitative Investment Researcher at Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin, 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.

Valentin Markounikau is a Senior Software Engineer at Ultramarin. 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.

Before joining Ultramarin, Vasco was a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University (Israel), where he investigated network-based correlation functions. Vasco received his doctoral degree in theoretical physics from Technical University of Berlin on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with applications in biological systems. Vasco holds a masters degree in mathematics from the Technical University of Berlin.

Dragan Cvetinovic joined Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin, 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.

Ingo Völker is Managing Director of Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin. 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).

Kim Richter is Executive Assistant at Ultramarin and supports the Managing Team in all organizational matters.

Kim Richter has more than 15 years of professional experience as an executive assistant in small and medium-sized companies in various industries and has gained a wide range of experience. She focused on stakeholder communication (internal and external) as well as process implementation and continuous improvement.

As a generalist with a practical hands-on mentality, she actively supports all cross-sectional areas. She is familiar with different structures and processes and supported the management with her experience during the company transformation from start-up to scale-up.

Kim Richter studied International Business Management in East Asia at the Euro Business College in Hamburg and holds a Master's degree in Chinese European Economics and Business Studies (M.A.) from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Michelle is the Senior HR Manager at Ultramarin 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 Ultramarin until they leave. She places particular emphasis on individual support and the creation of specifically adapted development plans for teams and colleagues.

Before joining Ultramarin, 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.

Mohammad joined Ultramarin as a Senior Software Engineer in April 2023, bringing with him over 10 years of experience in back-end development, software orchestration, and network security. He has passion for designing and implementing efficient systems that can adapt to the evolving needs of the industry. Prior to joining Ultramarin, Mohammad was a key member of a team of software engineers who developed network and security monitoring software for national enterprises. He also maintained software packages for security-focused Linux distributions, ensuring that they were up-to-date and effective. Mohammad received his Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Isfahan. He has a deep understanding of software engineering principles and is passionate about applying them to solve complex problems.

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

Prior to joining Ultramarin, 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.

Ronald Richter is co-founder of Ultramarin 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.

Sebastian Baumgärtner joined the Business Development team of Ultramarin in December 2022. He brings four years of institutional sales experience from his time at AllianceBernstein in London. Prior to that, he serviced German clients at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the trade finance department. He holds an MBA in International Business from National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung.

Stephan Schneider is Managing Director of Ultramarin 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.