Curriculum Vitae

Henrik Mathiesen, M.Sc. Ph.D.
Founder & owner – Alpha Captech

Phone: (+45) 2620 7075
E-mail: hm@alphacaptech.com
Vlog: HMexperience
Skype name: henrikmat10

Summary: Mathiesen is founder and owner of Alpha Captech. He has developed and verified the quantitative investment system that Alpha Captech will use to manage its investment fund. Previously he worked from 2002 to 2005 as a research assistant professor at Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. In 2002 he earned a Ph.D. in economics from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He got his M.Sc. in economics from Copenhagen University in 1996 that included one year of graduate studies at University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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Personal

  • Full name: Henrik Mathiesen
  • Date of birth: 1969
  • Nationality: Danish
  • Place of birth: Copenhagen, Denmark

Educational background

  • September 2002: Ph.D. in economics from Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • August 1996: M.Sc. in economics (Cand. Polit.) from Copenhagen University, Denmark
  • September 1994 – May 1995: Graduate exchange student at University of Western Ontario, Canada

National service

  • September 1988 – June 1989: At Høvelte, Denmark. Cleared for Nato Confidential at the time and for using encrypting materiel

Skills and expertise
(as relevant for Alpha Captech)

  • Quantitative stock market anomalies
  • Corporate governance
  • Financial information retrieval systems
  • Applied regression analysis

Work experience

  • Since January 2018: Founder & owner of Alpha Captech (same company and work as ViamInvest see below but new name)
  • April 2006 – December 2017: Founder & owner of Viaminvest Working full-time developing and verifying Viaminvest’s quantitative asset management system
  • Since April 2022: WordPress webmaster for alphacaptech.com and hmexperience.dk using hosted cloud webservices (was high time to get up to date with web design skills and webhosting skills as Mathiesen previously used a private Windows 2000 server set up at home in 1999 using Microsoft Frontpage and some other now antiquated software that nevertheless was state of the art in 1999
  • Since October 2022: Youtuber with YouTube channel HMexperience (at https://www.youtube.com/@hmexperience) and associated vlog website at www.hmexperience.dk. HMexperience is a vlog where Mathiesen research and talk about anything he finds interesting including economics, science, technology, politics, philosophy, cooking and much more. The vlog tries to focus on topics that has the potential to importantly matter for whether the future of humanity will be better or worse. In order to produce HMexperience Mathiesen spend about 10 hours per week making content. He also had to spend over 3 months full time teaching himself how to make the website and videos using new software including 1) WordPress and 20+ plugins for website building, 2) DaVinci Resolve for video editing, 3) OBS Studio for video recording, 4) GIMP and Photopea for image manipulation, 5) Inkspace for vector graphics creation and 6) a long list of other minor apps and webservices
  • May 2005 – March 2006: Visiting Researcher at Center for Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School
  • November 2002 – April 2005: Research Assistant Professor and Data Manager at Center for Corporate Performance under Department of Economics at Aarhus School of Business
  • May 2005: Consulting job regarding rating algorithm structure for The e-Firm / Asset4 in Switzerland
  • April 2005: Consulting job regarding database development for a research project on general corporate governance issues at the Center for Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School
  • 2005 – 2006: External examiner for Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and for University of Agder, Norway
  • 2004 – 2006: Master thesis supervisor for students at Copenhagen University and Copenhagen Business School
  • July 2002 – July 2004: Consulting job concerning database development and data analysis regarding a research project on branding expenditures and financial performance at INT, Copenhagen Business School. The project was financed by the largest Danish marketing firm Kunde & Co
  • February 2003 – November 2003: Consulting job about database development for a research project on corporate performance and closely held corporations for Centre for Economic and Business Research at the Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs
  • June 1999 – 2006: I was the sole author and producer of Encycogov. Encycogov was a web based encyclopedia about issues in corporate governance and finance. I started producing it during my time as a Ph.D. student at Copenhagen Business School. From 1999 to 2013 it has attracted over 120,000 unique visitors and over 100 daily visitors.
  • June 2003: Reviewer for the Academy of International Business 2003, two papers
  • February 2003: Reviewer for the Academy of International Business 2003, one paper
  • 1999 – 2001: Principally responsible for the development of the website for Journal of International Business Studies: A refereed journal that publishes the results of social science research and other types of articles that advance the understanding of business. My work meant that this Journal was one of the first peer reviewed journals to get its entire archive online
  • 1997 – 2002: Ph.D. – student at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Thesis: Mathiesen, Henrik (2002). “Managerial Ownership and Financial Performance,” Ph.D. series 18.2002, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  • 1997 – 1998: Teaching in courses on Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School