Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Beermann studied Mathematics and Computer Science in Karlsruhe. In 1996, he went to Zurich to join the gearbox company L. Kissling & Co. AG as product manager for the calculation software KISSsoft. In 1998 he switched to KISSsoft AG as one of its first employees. Today he is CEO of KISSsoft AG, together with the company’s founder Dr. Ulrich Kissling.