Stephan joined bm|t in 2006 as Invest­ment Man­ager to part­ner with vision-dri­ven entre­pre­neurs on their jour­ney to reshape entire indus­tries. He is well con­nected in the startup scene and is enthu­si­as­tic about all sec­tors of the dig­i­tal econ­omy par­tic­u­larly B2B- and B2C soft­ware solu­tions, Fin­tech, Cyber­se­cu­rity, Big Data solu­tions and 3D.

Pre­vi­ously, he worked sev­eral years as Senior Asso­ciate in Merg­ers & Acqui­si­tions at a large bank in Ger­many and as Con­trol­ling Ana­lyst at Bank of Amer­ica. Stephan stud­ied Inter­na­tional Busi­ness in Ger­many and obtained an MBA in North Car­olina (USA).

Besides being an avid trav­eler, he enjoys pho­tog­ra­phy, archi­tec­ture, Beethoven Sym­phonies, the his­tory and per­son­al­i­ties of his home­town Weimar and 19^th and 20^th cen­tury art.