Stephan Heller is the founder and managing director of FinCompare GmbH, a fast-growing online platform for SME financing. Before he founded Watchmaster in 2015, where he led the European trading platform for new and used luxury watches for a year as CEO, thus shaping the digital transformation of the watch market. Previously, Stephan worked for Groupon, most recently from 2013 to 2015 as Head of Merchant Marketing in London.

Further career assignments were as investment analyst at the investment company Waterland and as management consultant at the global strategy consultancy Roland Berger. Stephan Heller also worked for BMW in Tokyo and for UBS in London and holds a bachelor's degree in communication science from the University of Vienna and a master's degree in international management from ESCP Europe in Paris, London and Berlin.