Stephan was born and raised in New Zealand and at an early age was a paper boy, then shelf-filler at the local supermarket followed by a stint as a "Blockies Laborer" then Electricians assistant.

These were all moonlights so as to get through school and University. Stephan graduated from Victoria University of Wellington as a Bachelor of Science inSolid State Physics and Experimental Psychology. These included courses in computing and statistics.

Stephan went abroad to England in 1977 where he toured around Europe before finding a job as a programmer. He had subsequent jobs as training manager for Executive Management Services, then the General Manager for the same company with a stint as Technical Author for the Future Computer's FX 20 and FX 30 (this was a home based employment)

Then a shift of vocation to Top Financial Officer of the Church of Scientology of London, where he introduced computerization into the Church, followed by 2 years in charge of Security Systems for the UK HQ of the Church before being returned to financial matters as Assistant to the CFO for the Advanced Church Organization at Saint Hill involving international wires and transfers of funds.

Promotion took Stephan to the USA where he was part of the project that successfully demonstrated  tax Compliance to the IRS for the US Church of Scientology.

Promotion took Stephan to the position of Cost Accountant of Bridge Publications which is the biggest book publisher on the West Coast.

Ill health required Stephan to leave the Church so that he was able to get a full recovery and while getting the rest and care needed, worked as collections officer for a private company and then as the Deputy Treasurer. Because of his illness Stephan found an interest in Health matters such as nutrition and diet and the materials the body needs to be healthy and energetic. This lead to his interest in Melaleuca and in Moxxor. Moxxor is a New Zealand product which has been met with much interest in the natural health community. These were also experiments into the field of online marketing.

While doing some Christmas shopping in 2006, Stephan chanced upon a friend who introduced him to a new vocation: A Global Enterprise. At first skeptical, due diligence revealed a sane way of creating a better world for everyone, and a way to become wealthy at the same time. Stephan helped build a company focused on creating the infrastructure needed to raise a region out of poverty and hopelessness. He soon became a member of the Board on a start up company, and became CFO of the same company.

Stephan has a vision of taking some region in the world (perhaps in Africa) out of destitution and turning it into a flourishing and prospering capitalist democracy where people have rights and where there is rule of law which is just and fair. There is also another vision which is confidential involving pipelines. 

Needless to say, the other activities are sidelines to this main effort, but Stephan has a special place for Moxxor!!!