Von Stechow has a long career in finance and banking behind him, combined with a degree in industrial management and doctoral studies in business administration. He started out at Effektenbank-Warburg AG, later moving on to various managerial positions at some of Germany’s most renowned financial institutions. This included directorships at Georg Hauck & Sohn in Frankfurt and Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie in Cologne.

Von Stechow was also a chief representative of Trinkaus & Burkhardt KGaA in Düsseldorf and a member of the managing board of DG Bank/DZ-Bank AG in Frankfurt. From 2002 to 2005, he was a member of the executive and managing director of Berlin Partner GmbH – a company devoted to marketing the German capital Berlin. Since the end of 2005, he has been the managing partner at Stechow Management Consulting GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin. The company undertakes supervisory board, advisory board and consulting functions.

Alongside his supervisory board role at White Owl Capital, he also holds advisory positions at C H Reynolds Corporate Finance AG (Frankfurt), Frankfurt’s Society for Trade, Industry and Science, ActiDes Berlin GmbH (Berlin), the Green Hospital Program (Königstein), Pamera Asset Management GmbH (Hamburg), Propan Rheingas GmbH & Co. KG (Brühl), Rheingas Handel GmbH & Co. KG (Dresden), and the Institut für Genossenschaftswesen (Institute for Cooperative and Social Enterprises) at Humboldt University in Berlin.

He has taught economics at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2007, and he held an honorary professorship in finance and banking at the University of Potsdam from 2002 to 2007.