For the past 18 years, Stephan worked on emerging Internet and software technologies at early stage Silicon Valley startups as well as public companies. Before Goodmail, Stephan co-founded Techhand, developer of a massively multiplayer online game, where he designed and implemented the 3D game engine, artificial intelligence, and networking layer. Prior to Techhand, Stephan spent 5 years with Siebel Systems where he managed engineering on a constraint based AI system designed to help sales produce valid and consistent quotes for complex solution sets. He was the first employee at enterprise software startup Nightingale Corp., developing a CRM system for the health care industry. Stephan started his career as a software engineer with Parsytec where he wrote real-time system software for massively parallel computers. Stephan joined Goodmail in 2003. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany.
