TEAM
Moritz Seibert
CEO/CIO
Moritz S. is the founder and principal investment manager of Takahē Capital. He started trading in 1998 and began his professional career as a derivatives trader at HSBC in Germany. Later, he worked for RBS in the UK as well as in the USA, where he was responsible for the bank’s equity derivatives structuring business. In 2012, Moritz co-founded Aquantum, a Munich-based systematic CTA focused on trend following and spread trading strategies. Subsequently, Moritz served as the CEO and CIO of Munich Re Investment Partners, a quantitative asset management firm focused on institutional investment solutions. More recently, Moritz also served as the CIO at Exponential Age Asset Management, a large digital asset fund of hedge funds. He also hosts the Open Interest podcast series on Top Traders Unplugged.
Dr. Moritz Heiden
Head of Quantitative Research
Moritz H. is Head of Quantitative Research at Takahē Capital, where he leads the development and implementation of systematic trend-following and spread trading strategies across global derivatives markets. Prior to co-founding Takahē, Moritz was Head of Research at Munich Re Investment Partners, contributed to portfolio algorithm design at Scalable Capital, and served as CTO at Exponential Asset Management, a crypto-focused fund of hedge funds. Moritz holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Augsburg and a Master of Mathematical Finance from the University of Konstanz. He remains active in academia as a lecturer on financial innovation. His research on volatility, alternative data, and investor behavior has been featured at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals.
Matthias Föhr
Head of Quantitative Engineering
Matthias has a quantitative background with a master’s degree in financial mathematics and work experience in financial engineering and IT development. Starting his professional career as a quantitative strategist at digital wealth manager Scalable Capital in Germany, he focused on developing and automating systematic trading strategies that manage more than 200K retail client portfolios. After Scalable Capital, he joined Munich Re Investment Partners where he worked with Moritz S. and Moritz H. as a Quantitative Engineer and contributed to the company’s IT backend and IT security.
Leonie Herma
Head of Business Management
Leo began her career at the IT company msg systems ag in Munich before moving to Amsterdam, where she worked as a Product Owner at coworking provider Spaces, developing new tools for its booking platform. She later managed the development of a finance chatbot, combining AI, UX and financial expertise to create a conversational tool for users. A digital nomad, Leo also founded Waves & Wifi, a coworking and coliving space in Nicaragua that serves as a hub for remote professionals. Her experience spans marketing, product development and agile project management.