User:Iceman550/Stefan Siegel

Stefan Siegel was born in Meran in South Tyrol - the German speaking part of Northern Italy - in December 1978. After his high school degree at the F. Morosini Military Naval School in Venice, he moved to Vienna to study economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, and gained experience in the fashion and media industry working for local design houses and advertising agencies. He graduated with an MA in International Economics in 2004.

Career
Followed by a modelling career appearing in campaigns and catwalk shows for Prada, Gucci, BMW, K-Swiss and Calvin Klein, he joined the world of finance, working for companies such as Ernst & Young and Sal. Oppenheim in Switzerland, and the Merrill Lynch M&A Investment Banking group in London specialising on the Consumer & Retail sector, advising publicly listed fashion houses. Stefan used the gained experience to launch the NOT JUST A LABEL (“NJAL”) project, based on an idea he had with his brother Daniel, a computer science expert. They launched the company on a shoestring in 2008. NJAL today represents over 6,000 emerging fashion designers from 88 countries.

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