Stefan is the Head of the AI Excellence Center in Central Europe at HPE. He enables organizations to transform into AI-driven and data-centric businesses, to leverage data and the use of AI, and to participate in the digital data-sharing ecosystem.
Over more than 30 years in the IT industry, Stefan held leading IT roles at several companies before joining HPE in 2020. As Head of IT Architecture at Swissport, the largest ground handler in aviation, he introduced a data-centric architecture that enabled the company's prize-winning “delay prediction” AI framework. Before that, he led the production architecture of Swisscom (CH), where he was actively involved in the organization's Agile and DevOps transformation, the use of AI for network planning and operations, and fraud prevention. Before working in enterprise and IT architecture, Stefan acquired wide and deep knowledge of software development, systems integration, and operations as CTO at ISPs (e.g. Tiscali) and in various management roles at system integrators (e.g. T-Systems) and tech companies.
Stefan holds an engineering degree from RWTH Aachen and an MBA from Henley Management College, and participated in the Senior Executive Programme at London Business School.
He is a regular contributor to international symposia on AI, digital transformation, data-centric architecture, and analytics, and regularly publishes articles in various technical journals. He is co-author of the Data Centric Architecture for Dummies guide and of “The pathway to becoming a digital champion” (Plattform Industrie 4.0), and is preparing to publish a new book, “The Data Centric Enterprises – Data as the basis for success in the AI era”, with De Gruyter.
