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Karsten Schroeder
Karsten Schroeder (born 26 October 1977) is the CEO and co-founder of Amplitude Capital, a hedge fund specializing on systematic short- and medium-term trading with offices in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; Zug, Switzerland; London, UK; Prague, Czech Republic, and Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Early Life and Education
Schroeder was born and raised in Lage, near Rostock, in Germany, when it was still the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He graduated from the CJD Christophorusschule Rostock, where he was part of the program for mathematically gifted children, and received his Business Diploma from the Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL).

Early Career
Upon graduating from university, Schroeder started with consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Berlin, Germany. Having traded futures and options from a young age, he eventually turned his passion into his profession, and started to work on a fully systematic futures based directional trading strategy that was the foundation of Amplitude Capital's launch in London, UK, in 2004.

Personal Life
Schroeder cites that his two favorite movies, Top Gun and Wall Street significantly influenced his interests in life. Apart from developing trading strategies, he is a commercial pilot, and enjoys aesthetics and performance oriented engineering. Living in Zug, Switzerland, he is an avid skier and kite-surfer.

TV
A frequent guest in German television during the earlier part of his career, he now appears on more specialized broadcasts and has co-anchored on Bloomberg and CNBC.