Stefan Richter

Stefan Richter is an experienced Chief Product & Technology Officer with over a decade of experience in building and scaling successful startups in various domains, such as eCommerce, FinTech, and Digital Health.

He helps startup founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to build/scale/turnaround high-performance product organizations and customer-oriented products.

Career highlights:
- Achieved complete turnaround of product & engineering org as CPTO at Series B eCommerce / transactional marketplace startup with 100 employees (40 FTE in product & tech): turning mediocre P&E organization into high performance one within 1.5 years through hiring great talent, setting proper strategy, roadmap, org structure, and making teams performant. [kununu score 3.3 -> 4.0, Trustpilot score 2.9 -> 4.5]
- Built leading corporate company builder in DACH region from scratch together with 4 strong management members as CPO and Venture Director, growing the company from 5 to 100 employees within 2 years.
- Built and managed nearshoring team of 20+ engineers (setup within 3 months) as interim CTO.
- Managed multiple ventures and venture product teams, tested and launched more than 20 business models / products (mainly in: eCommerce, Digital Health, FinTech).
- Head of Product at most valuable Series B/C FinTech startup in Germany in 2014, experienced rapid growth from 60 to 200+ employees in 2 years. Unique insights and achievements into the challenges of a fast-growing, investor-driven startup (such as hiring, technical debt, delivering value, collaboration, constantly onboarding new employees, monthly growth pressure)