Our Management Team
Get to know our management team at wikifolio.
Andreas Kern, Founder and CEO
Before founding wikifolio, Andreas Kern gathered over 10 years’ experience in the financial services & payments sector. As Managing Director of payboxAustria GmbH, he succeeded in bringing the company into profit. He was also co-founder of payolution GmbH, which was successfully sold to Skrill/moneybookers. Andreas Kern studied mathematics and computer science, holds an MSc in Innovation Management from Johannes Kepler Business School in Linz, and is also a qualified stock exchange trader for futures and cash markets. His goal has always been to create a widely accessible real alternative for investors and traders. From this innovative concept, wikifolio, Europe's leading platform for transparent trading ideas, was born.
Wolfgang Seidl, CTO
Wolfgang Seidl brings over 25 years’ experience in software development and IT consulting to the company. Having already advised wikifolio during the founding phase, he became a part of the management team in 2016. After studying computer science at the University of Derby, Wolfgang Seidl began his professional career as an expert in software development and began to lead the development team at Sans Souci IT Solutions GmbH in 2003. As founder and Managing Director of WS IT Solutions GmbH from 2006 onwards, he was responsible for the overall strategic and operational orientation of the IT consulting company, supporting international clients from industry, logistics and the media sector. Before joining wikifolio, Wolfgang Seidl was Head of Production at the Wyeth Nutrition Digital Center, an internal digital agency belonging to the Nestlé Group, where he was responsible for global digital marketing projects and an interdisciplinary team of IT and online marketing specialists.