Stefan Petzinger

Chief Executive Officer @ Hilo by Aktiia | Board Member

Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

About

CEO and board-level operator with 25+ years of experience building, scaling, and transforming technology and consumer businesses across Europe, the US, and China. Proven track record in driving revenue growth, shifting business models, and leading organisations through critical phases including turnaround, international expansion, and exit. - CEO of Swiss med-tech scale-up Aktiia, leading strategic repositioning and growth acceleration - Former CMO at PlusDental, part of executive team leading €131m exit to Straumann Group - Former SVP Marketing Europe & Managing Director at KAYAK, driving 4x revenue growth - Non-Executive Board Member at Hapimag AG, Chair of Customer & Product Committee

Experience

  • Hilo by Aktiia (1 yr)
    • Chief Executive Officer & Member of the Board of Directors
      Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

      Hilo by Aktiia – medically certified cuffless and continuous blood pressure monitoring CE certified and FDA approved. Available in 12 markets.

    • Chief Growth Officer (contract)
      Jul 2025 - Oct 2025 · 4 mos

      Responsible for the commercial function.

  • Non Executive Board Member / Chair of Customer and Product Committee at Hapimag
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    I am proud to serve as a non-executive board member (Verwaltungsrat) and as chair of the Customer and Product Committee at the Hapimag AG. Hapimag is a community-owned holiday resort operator that owns over 5.000 apartments, in 56 resorts across 15 countries. Hapimag was founded 1963 and has since developed into a community of 120.000 shareholders and almost 2.000 employees. Our vision is "more happy people for a better world". In this role I am specifically supporting the growth ambitions in order to ensure Hapimag will have a future that is equally prosperous and healthy as its past.

  • Angel Investor at BettaFish
    Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

    An amazing young business that creates products from seaweed that taste and look like fish. Try it!

  • Angel Investor at play TRACKS GmbH
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    1st of many Angel Investors in this amazing AI video platform.

  • Growth Consultant & Interim CMO at Stefan Petzinger (petzinger.de)
    May 2020 - Sep 2025 · 5 yrs 5 mos

    I am a Marketing/Growth & General Management professional with a successful track record of 20+ years. As Growth expert I support investors, CEOs and leadership teams in building high-performance brands, marketing platforms and organizations. My core expertise lies in immersing myself quickly into organizations and their marketing/growth challenges and to develop and implement solutions that help to overcome these challenges with high efficiency and measurable success. With a proven track record in many categories, on-the-ground expertise in the world’s most important business regions and access to an extensive network I can hit the ground running and deliver value from Day 1. I am available for short- and long-term consultancy as well as interim management. I am also interested in non-executive directors positions. Things I can specifically help you with: - Effective Growth strategies & roadmaps - Budgeting, KPIs and OKR development - Marketing/Growth team setup, building and restructuring - Partner selection, benchmarking, negotiation and onboarding support - Board and investor stakeholder management - Access to an extensive industry network