Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Stefan is our Chief Executive Officer. He holds a PhD in Physics from LMU, TUM and Stanford with focus on semiconductor technology and sustainable energy technology and an MBA from St. Gallen. He is a successful serial entrepreneur and has 12 years of experience as a CEO and as a leader of R&D teams including software engineering teams.
Prior to this he worked several years as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group advising Fortune500 clients in the top management. At Genesis Cloud, he leads our global business development strategy, marketing & sales and product management.
Chief Operating Officer
Nick is our Chief Operating Officer with over 15 years of experience in different tech startups and management consulting. He leads all aspects of our global growth strategy, company operations, supply chain management, and company culture. Previously Nick served in different leadership roles, including CEO of Genesis Mining Iceland as well as European Lead for Genesis Mining, Director of Operations for Redavia GmbH, Management Consultant for McKinsey & Company, and diverse senior leadership roles at Genser Power Inc.
Nick earned a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering, a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a master's degree in Sustainable Energy Technologies from Delft University of Technology.
Chief Customer Officer
Norman is our Chief Customer Officer with over 20 years of experience in business consulting and research technology industries. He leads our global growth strategy and is tasked with creating and leading a client-centric sales and customer success organization. Previously Norman served in different sales and leadership roles, including Managing Director of Cint Deutschland GmbH (part of Cint AB Group). He worked with many global clients from small companies to global organizations including VW Group, Deutsche Post, UPS, Henkel, Beiersdorf, GfK and Kantar.
Norman earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from TU Berlin.
Vice President of Engineering
Dave leads the engineering organization overseeing R&D, product development, infrastructure and operations. Above all, he ensures a continuous uninterrupted delivery of high-quality service to our customers. His past experience includes operating systems development, high-traffic and big-data platforms, bare-metal infrastructure, and everything in-between.
Dave is an experienced engineer and passionate technologist with a deep commitment to open source and is a regular attendee and speaker at conferences. He has over a decade of experience spanning multiple fields, most recently with 1&1 IONOS and unicorn startup Adjust.
Advisors
Dr. Richard Socher is currently the CEO of You.com, a new trusted consumer-first search engine launched in 2020. Richard is the founder and former CEO/CTO of MetaMind, which was later acquired by Salesforce, where he served for several years as chief scientist (EVP). Previously Richard was an adjunct professor at Stanford's computer science department and possesses a wealth of experience in fundamental research, applied research, product incubation, CRM search, customer service automation, and developing cross-product AI platforms for unstructured and structured data.
Richard earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University.
Dr. Marco Krohn has earned a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover. While working in the finance and investment banking industries, Marco became interested in Bitcoin, which prompted him to make a major career move and join the cryptocurrency revolution. He is the co-founder of several successful blockchain companies, including Genesis Digital Assets, Genesis Mining, Genesis Group, and Blockchain Consulting GmbH.