Mario Baumgärtner

Mario Baumgärtner is Chief Executive Officer and founder of ACC Group. He leads the strategic direction of the company’s product portfolio and investment division. Prior to his current role, Mario served as a senior portfolio manager at one of the first quantitative digital asset hedge funds in the United States. Throughout his career in finance, he has had the honor of meeting the German Finance Minister, the Austrian Minister of Economics, and members of the European Parliament, engaging in meaningful discussions about the future of artificial intelligence in finance. Since completing his degree in Finance and Controlling, Mario has also been active as an author, publishing his book on crowdinvesting in April 2022.

"AI will, in my opinion, bring humans and machines closer together, which is what sets it apart from past technologies. AI is occasionally misrepresented as a way for machines to replace people. Machines are meant to enhance human capabilities, not to take their place. In the coming years, human intentions and business processes will be able to scale by tenfold, fiftyfold, and even more through the combination of the respective strengths and weaknesses of humans and machines."