Philipp H. Seeck
Director
Former Barclays investment banker with 10+ years of institutional finance experience in investment banking and restructuring, complemented by hands-on entrepreneurial experience in artificial intelligence and digital assets.
Prior to joining Areta, Philipp worked in Barclays’ Investment Banking Division in Frankfurt and London, as well as at ACXIT Capital Partners (now part of Stifel) in Frankfurt, advising corporate and large-cap private equity clients particularly in the Technology and Industrials sectors on M&A, LBO, ECM and acquisition financing transactions across buy-side and sell-side mandates, with transaction sizes of up to €17.2bn.
Philipp has been actively involved in the digital asset space since 2017. After leaving Barclays in 2022, he completed Executive Education programs in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain at MIT Sloan / MIT CSAIL, Wharton and UC Berkeley before founding Genesis 256 in 2023 – a proprietary capital allocation, strategic advisory and protocol-level execution platform operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital assets – complementing his institutional banking track record with hands-on entrepreneurial experience in an emerging area of financial infrastructure. In 2026, he was additionally appointed as an Expert to the Experts Board of Blockchain Bundesverband (Bundesblock), with a particular focus on AI x Digital Assets.
Philipp is a CAIA charterholder and graduated with a Master of Law and Business from Bucerius Law School and WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.
