Stephan Gutzeit

Currently he is Executive Director at Stiftung Charité, a foundation endowed by German entrepreneur Johanna Quandt to advance innovation and entrepreneurship in medicine.

In May 2012 he will become Executive Director at Stiftung Neues Bauhaus, a new foundation devoted to the support of deep innovation. Stephan holds several other directorships, among them at Arcadia Berlin Stiftung, and is a trustee at Astia. 

He is a member of the investment committee at Charité Biomedical Fund, a venture capital fund focussing on investments in medical device companies, and serves as a consultant for universities and foundations. 

Earlier, he worked for a global consultancy firm, started up the first German liberal arts college, and co-founded the second German school of governance. 

He was educated at Stanford and Harvard, where he studied philosophy and chemistry.