Govert Heijboer has been active as a market maker trading in the European and Asian derivatives markets, as well as positional trading, since 2003. Govert started as a trader/researcher at Saen Options in Amsterdam and rose to become the director of derivatives trading and a member of the executive team in 2007.

In 2008 he moved to Hong Kong to set up and assume responsibility for all trading activities in the new Saen Options Hong Kong branch office. He is a founding partner of True Partner Capital, founded in 2010. Govert holds a PhD in management science and an MSc in applied physics from the University of Twente, Netherlands.