Stephan is a generalist business development executive with 13+ years of professional experience in a variety of industries, supporting start-ups and scale-ups in different stages in scaling their businesses. Currently, he builds aescolab – a company that provides high-quality blood-biomarker analysis and indvidualized lifestyle recommendations – as the company’s CEO and Co-Founder. Earlier, he supported AI-empowered breast cancer screening company Vara in 2021 as Chief Revenue Officer and lead its business development and international expansion efforts. Before, he has been responsible for all things Business Development, Sales and Partnerships at Grover. Earlier in his career, Stephan worked for the leading European FinTech ecosystem Finleap, which he joined after building insurance cooperations for InsurTech pioneer Friendsurance, and starting his own startup in the recommendational marketing space. Stephan holds an M.Sc from CATÓLICA-LISBON School of Business and Economics and ESCP Europe and a B.Sc. from University of Passau. He conducted his master’s thesis in cooperation with the MIT Sloan School of Management.