About Us
About Us
The Company
Our Values
Winning Together
For us at FoX-i the only success is mutual success, and this is best achieved with intricate teamwork and a unified approach combining the unique sets of experiences and skills of every individual team member.
As for clients, we take this core value quite literally: even our fee structure follows a “Winning Together” principle where we are only paid on positive returns generated for our clients.
Human Touch
As a boutique fintech firm, our emphasis on providing personalized care for our clients is unrivalled as we genuinely believe in fostering of human relationships in midst of the ever-rising magnitude of technology.
The human element also plays a vital role in the long-term success of our proprietary trading intelligence. We continuously generate alpha thanks in part of the human overlay that ensures agility and provides a necessary edge.
Innovative Precision
We constantly strive for excellence and foster a culture of continuous innovation. In a dynamic trading environment, it is crucial for us to stay on-top of latest technological developments as well as permanently improve our trading algorithms. With that, the underlying quality standard in every aspect of our business is nothing less than utmost precision because we never want to miss the mark.
The People
FoX-i hosts a unique team of developers, traders and entrepreneurs with over 200 years of combined experience in programming, management and trading.
UAE
Gerard Iwema
Executive Chairman
Gerard Iwema
Executive ChairmanHis interest in alternative investments goes back to his MBA-thesis “The Acceptability of Futures as an Investment”. He holds an International Law Degree in the Netherlands and worked for US investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, where he focused on Hedge Fund and CTA’s. Iwema managed his own multi-manager Hedge Fund and founded several investment companies. He started in 2010 with trading on the Forex-market and is the founder of FoX-i as well as developer of its strategies.
Singapore
Dieter Schlosser
Dieter Schlosser
Dieter previously held the position of CEO of SoftwareOne, building it to a billion CHF global software company. Before that he held multiple leadership positions in global organizations like BHP, DKSH and Daimler. Schlosser is a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) since 2012. Through his investment vehicles 5I Ventures and Rozario Capital Management he is scaling out several high-growth & high-performance Tech Companies and he is a board member at Rently.sg, Eye-Able, LucidPay.io and GoUpScale.
Monaco/Singapore
Oliver Rott
Oliver Rott
He is active in international M&A for many years. Rott is the Managing Partner of STS Capital Partners, heading up STS Capital Partners Asia-Pacific (Singapore) and Monaco. He led large-scale cross-continental M&A transactions across multiple industry sectors and served as board member and President of the Monaco Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (MVCA) as well as a board member of Monaco Private Label (MPL), a Monaco Government-driven concept. He is an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and currently functions in leadership roles for the Southeast Asia Region.
Germany
Fabian Fach
Fabian Fach
He was a Customer Relationship Manager at Bloomrich Crypto (London) and was private markets investor specialist at Nerium. Fach is the founder and partner at Black Flower Capital, a hedge fund advisor in Switzerland and is a trusted advisor of Prelude Capital Markets Fund. Fach is also a shareholder in S&F Immo (real estate).
Spain
Bart Hendrik
Analyst
Bart Hendrik
AnalystHendrik holds a Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was licensed for trading financial futures on the Amsterdam Option Exchange and worked as production leader / specialist for Philips and other companies and as independent advisor for companies in production and organizational areas. Furthermore, he was active in motorcycle racing.
Germany
Bernie Schicht
Technology
Bernie Schicht
TechnologyHe is a computer scientist and is involved in financial markets for over three decades (trading, developing strategies (bots), indicators and trading tools). Schicht is the founder of Stash (Munich-Germany), specializing in the implementation of automatic systems trading software for financial markets. He is in charge of FoX-i’s algo-trading implementation and development of the software.
Canada
Jacco Kooij
Institutional Trading
Jacco Kooij
Institutional TradingHe worked as a radar-specialist for the Dutch Air Force. He was a commodity and financial trading specialist with over 20 years of experience in Canada and Europe. Kooij worked for Cargill Ltd as Head of Foreign Exchange as well as with a number of FinTech firms, focusing on strategy optimization including spot-FX and futures, using A.I. to search for optimized algo-trading strategies.
Singapore
Kevin Chang
Operations
Kevin Chang
OperationsHe studied Management at the Warwick Business School (UK) and thereafter held various leadership positions in upscale hospitality for Marriott International and Shangri-La Hotels. Later, Chang then pivoted into the technology industry by joining SoftwareOne in charge for building up business verticals for APAC region. As portfolio manager of 5iVentures, he helps LucidPay.io, Eye-Able, Hello Health Group and FoX-i with commercial and GTM leadership and advisory.
Monaco
Thomas Dries
Thomas Dries
Dries studied banking economics and law in Germany and was a former trader at a Global bank. He is the founder of the Altevia Group (Germany) and has more than 25 years in the trading (equities, FX and indices) business.
The Netherlands
Paul Heise
Paul Heise
He has an Engineering Degree in Information and Computing Science. Heise is an entrepreneur, investor and advisory board member in ICT-companies and a former self-employed day-trader and technical analyst. Later on he became an Investment Banker at SNS Securities (The Netherlands). He is also a lecturer in Master of Business Administration at a Dutch University.
UK
Gian Piero Alpa
Gian Piero Alpa
He studied Civil Engineering (Italy) and received an MBA from Stanford (USA). Alpa has previously served as a Professor of Technical Physics at the Polytechnic of Turin. As a former consultant at McKinsey & Co. he ran the European Technology Fund. He has been active for 20 years in Private Equity and trading and developed a strong interest in AI for trading applications. Further, Alpa is a board member of OMT (Turin) and Boostore (London).
Luxembourg
Charles Berna
Charles Berna
Berna is a candidate notary and attorney at law in Luxembourg, worked for Clifford Chance (Luxembourg) and is currently managing partner of the law firm Berna & Associés where he is specialized in corporate law and investment funds. Formerly, he was a semi-professional tennis player.