Stefan Schaefer

Stefan Schaefer has over 20 years of experience in sales and business development. Stefan began their career in 2000 as a Senior Consultant at BROKAT Technologies AG, where they led pre and post sales projects in the banking and insurance markets. In the same year, they joined First Data Corporation as a Technical Director, managing pre-sales engineering in m-Commerce business. In 2002, they became CEO of LuminaXX, Inc., a full-service consulting firm offering IT consulting to financial and chemical industries. Stefan then moved to RELDATA in 2006 as Director of Sales, where they directed business positioning, established channel sales organization and drove development of reseller channel in North America. In 2008, they joined VoiceTrust as SVP Sales, Americas | Country Manager U.S.A., directing a team of 7 in pre-sales engineering, sales and solution deployment. In 2015, they became SVP Sales, North America at Veridium, where they created opportunities with decision makers at key accounts such as MasterCard, First Data, AT&T and HSBC. In 2017, they joined SAMSUNG SDS as Senior Manager Financial Services, driving sales and business development for the Enterprise Software group with SaaS and mobile solutions (SDKs). In 2019, they became Director of Sales at Redrock Biometrics, Inc., developing a groundbreaking palm-based biometric authentication technology that works on any device with a camera. Stefan also became Director of Pre-Sales Engineering at SkyX, where they focused on Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) technology for capturing data ranging from infrastructure inspection to detecting hydrocarbon leaks.

Stefan Schaefer obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Computer Science and Business Administration (Double Major) from Hochschule Furtwangen in 1996.