As a founding board member and COO of PowerCo (Volkswagen), Sebastian led the operational strategy and capital deployment for a €20B+ global gigafactory grid, pioneering large-scale battery manufacturing across Europe and North America. As European CEO of Farasis Energy, he spearheaded Western expansion, transforming early R&D prototypes into bankable, automotive-grade mass production architectures to secure multi-billion-euro OEM supply agreements.
Sebastian spent over a decade with Robert Bosch optimizing manufacturing lines and de-risking the "prototype-to-scale" journey across complex supply chains, ultimately rising to lead Bosch’s global Battery function. He gained foundational strategic expertise at Boston Consulting Group, advising automotive giants on e-mobility market entry, while his entrepreneurial track record includes founding six successful clean-energy and deep-tech companies.