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Ex-Roland Berger founders who just went stealth

12 founders who worked at Roland Berger started a company in stealth in the last 1783 weeks.

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Yannik Trinn

Co-Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Strategy Consulting
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Strategy Consulting at Roland Berger2026-2026 · left May 2026
  • Board Member at Studieren Ohne Grenzen e.V. - Students Without Borders2025-2026
  • Physical AI at NEURA Robotics2026-2026
  • Visiting Investment Analyst at HTGF | High-Tech Gründerfonds2025-2026
  • Fellow Consultant at Horváth2025-2025
  • Project Manager at Studieren Ohne Grenzen e.V. - Students Without Borders2024-2025
  • Graduate Researcher at Tsinghua University2024-2024
Education
  • Tsinghua UniversityMS
  • RWTH Aachen UniversityMS
  • The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyStudy Abroad

Jingwen Qin

Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Consultant
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Consultant at Roland Berger2016-2018 · left Jan 2018
  • Co-founder at OiiOii AI2026-2026
  • Head of Creator Operations, TikTok Shop U.S. at TikTok2022-2026
  • Head of Strategy & Operations at ByteDance2021-2022
  • Associate Director at DiDi2018-2021
  • Part Time Assistant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)2014-2014
Education
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor's

Finja Brand

Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Consulting & Business Communications
Before that
Went stealthSep 2026
Work
  • Consulting & Business Communications at Roland Berger2020-2021 · left Feb 2021
  • Management Consulting & CSO Office at Akkodis2022-2025
  • Corona Task Force at Pandemieprodukte.de2021-2021
  • Projektmanagement at eBay2019-2019
  • CEO Office at HFH Group2017-2018
Education
  • Nova School of Business and EconomicsMS
  • University of Applied Sciences EuropeBS
  • Johanneum zu Lübeck

Zhaoxian Liu

Co-Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Parttime Assistant
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Parttime Assistant at Roland Berger2025-2025 · left Nov 2025
  • Strategy & Investment Intern at rednote2026-2026
  • Intern at Bain & Company2025-2026
  • Goldman Sachs Asia Possibilities Summit at Goldman Sachs2025-2025
  • Early career at Deutsche Bank2024-2025
  • Investment Banking Analyst at AugCap2024-2025
  • Investment Management at Baird Augustine2024-2025
Education
  • 美国哥伦比亚大学Bachelor's

Louis Sylvestre

Founder & CEO
Left
Roland Berger
Consultant junior
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Consultant junior at Roland Berger2024-2024 · left Aug 2024
  • Bras droit du directeur de site - Production at Sirius Space Services2026-2026
  • Visiting Student Research Collaborator at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)2025-2025
  • Vice président at Duo Conseil X-HEC2024-2025
  • Formation TTVS (Techniques et Technologies des Véhicules Spatiaux) at Centre National d'Études Spatiales2024-2024
  • Ingénieur systèmes électroniques at The Spring Institute for Forests on the Moon2023-2024
  • Interrogateur Oral en Physique at Lycée Sainte-Geneviève2023-2024
Education
  • École Polytechnique
  • Mines Paris
  • EOGN

Mark Chua

Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Senior Consultant
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Senior Consultant at Roland Berger2015-2019 · left Aug 2019
  • Head of Growth at SEEK2019-2026
Education
  • University of MelbourneBachelor's

François Fournier

Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Senior Consultant
Before that
Went stealthLaunched Prestance Lab
Work
  • Senior Consultant at Roland Berger2017-2019 · left Oct 2019
  • Omnichannel Director at Tiffany & Co.2024-2026
  • Store Manager at Cartier2019-2024
  • On Site Auditor - General Inspection (French Central Bank) at Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR)2015-2017
Education
  • University of Paris I: Panthéon-SorbonneMaster's
  • Sciences PoMaster's

Volodymyr Dontsov

Co-Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Management Consultant
Before that
Went stealthJun 2026
Work
  • Management Consultant at Roland Berger2016-2020 · left Sep 2020
  • Chief Revenue Officer at Growly2022-2026
  • Project Manager, Consulting at Mastercard2020-2022
  • Consultant, Tax&Legal at KPMG Ukraine2015-2015
  • Customer Analytics and Insights at WOG2014-2014
Education
  • Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivMaster's
  • Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivBachelor's

Ivo Zelzner

Co-Founder
Left
Roland Berger
CTO Office Working Student
Before that
Went stealthLaunched transpension
Work
  • CTO Office Working Student at Roland Berger2026-2026 · until Aug 2026
  • Corporate Banking Intern at Deutsche Bank2026-2026
  • Product Operations Working Student at Trade Republic2025-2025
  • Process Management Working Student at FNZ (formerly ebase)2024-2025
  • Junior Consultant at tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG2023-2024
  • Risk Management Working Student at Scalable Capital2023-2024
  • Trainee at tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG2022-2023
Education
  • SRH UniversityBS

Olivier Gautier

Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Visiting Consultant
Before that
Went stealthApr 2026
Work
  • Visiting Consultant at Roland Berger2013-2014 · left Mar 2014
  • Co-fondateur at Kera Drinks2025-2026
  • COO at La Compagnie des Animaux2018-2024
  • Consultant at Bain & Company2014-2018
  • Analyst intern coporate finance at Kepler Cheuvreux2012-2012
  • Analyst intern at KPMG UK2011-2011
Education
  • ESSEC Business SchoolMS

Akshit Adani

Co-Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Case Team Lead
Before that
Went stealthMar 2026
Work
  • Case Team Lead at Roland Berger2020-2024 · left Dec 2024
  • Strategy & Execution at DFINITY Foundation2025-2026
  • Investment at Artha Venture Fund2019-2019
  • Management Consulting at KPMG Middle East2017-2017
  • Financial Advisory at Deloitte2017-2017
  • Intern at Adani Group2016-2016
Education
  • University of WarwickBS
  • GEMS Modern Academy

Ziyad A.

Co-Founder
Left
Roland Berger
Consultant
Before that
Went stealthJan 2026
Work
  • Consultant at Roland Berger2018-2023 · left Nov 2023
  • MBA Candidate at IE Business School2024-2025
  • Self Employed at Reverb2014-2018
Education
  • Boston UniversitySummer Program
  • IE Business SchoolMBA
  • Georgetown UniversitySummer Program

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curl https://api.crustdata.com/watch/person/search \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_KEY" \
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  -d '{
    "filters": { "op": "and", "conditions": [
      { "field": "experience.employment_details.current.company_name",
        "type": "[.]", "value": "stealth" },
      { "field": "experience.employment_details.current.title",
        "type": "(.)", "value": "founder" }
    ]},
    "fields": ["basic_profile", "experience", "education"],
    "config": { "trigger": { "type": "interval", "every_hours": 168 } }
  }'
# [.] = exact phrase, (.) = all words. Each week it returns only the new matches.

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About this list

What "stealth" means here: the person's current job is a founder title (Founder, Co-Founder, Founder & CEO…) at a company listed as "Stealth", "Stealth Startup" or similar, because they haven't announced it yet.

Where it comes from: public professional profiles, via the Crustdata API. A new search runs every week and adds whoever newly matches. Profiles can take a few weeks to show up, and start dates are by month.

The company on each row is the most recent job before going stealth, with the title they held there. Where we can, we skip internships, advisor seats and freelance stints. On a "former employer" page it shows the job at that employer instead. Click a row for their full work history and education.