As Co-Founder and CEO of Otera, Stefan has helped lead the company from its early generative AI research roots in 2018 to its position as a category creator in Agentic Process Automation. Together with his co-founder, he spearheaded the development of Otera’s proprietary LLM technology and its “Born Actively Agentic” architecture. Under their joint leadership, Otera secured a €15M Series A, built key partnerships with Microsoft and Gartner, and earned multiple industry awards, including the 2024 Agentic Innovation Award and two DIA Diamond Awards. Today, Otera enables agentic automation at scale for enterprises such as Allianz Partners, Siemens, Hannover Re, and Emirates Telecom, reshaping how organizations operate with truly agentic AI.