Marketing Technologist · Entrepreneur · Stuttgart

Go Digital.
Orchestrate AI.
Or Go Home.

Stephan Sigloch — digital marketing, e-commerce & AI automation. From my first SEO project in 1996 to multi-agent systems today: strategy, technology and getting it done, all in one.

25+ years online E-Commerce international AIO/GEO & AI agents Growth marketing Lead gen B2B & B2C Company building
„The future is open and we all can shape it."
— Stephan Sigloch

About

Who I am & what I do

Digital marketing expert, entrepreneur and speaker with over 25 years of experience in the digital economy — since my first online project in the still-young world of SEO back in 1996. We live in a GAFA world, right in the middle of the digital transformation; that's exactly where I feel at home.

As co-founder & co-owner of the DigitalNativeAlliance — one of Germany's leading owner-run agency groups with over 150 specialists — and with the performance agency KlickPiloten, I support companies in B2B & B2C with a 360° digital approach: strategy, technology, innovation. Offices in Stuttgart, Hamburg & Berlin plus an international network (USA, Eastern Europe, Spain). Degree in Information Economics from KIT Karlsruhe (40% business, 40% computer science, 20% law), ThePower MBA Advanced & Online Marketing Manager (depak) — rounded out by coding and database skills.

„Talking builds foundations, and doing builds the future."

I don't just lead teams or talk about technology and marketing growth — I can also design, build, understand and execute it myself. From my own SaaS product to successful performance marketing (national & international) to my first game app, which I brought to life in 2026 together with my younger son: „Extreme Vibe Coding, Creation & Marketing" isn't theory for me, it's lived productivity — instead of just messing around on social media ;-)

🏸 Badminton  ·  ⛳ Golf  ·  🏠 Real estate  ·  👨‍👩‍👧 Family  ·  🤖 AI tool creator

1996
First SEO project
25+
Years of experience
150+
Specialists (DNA)
900M+
Media managed
Stephan Sigloch in a podcast interview
Stephan Sigloch · Stuttgart · *1981

Education & certificates

🎓 Information Economics · KIT Karlsruhe 🎓 Online Marketing Manager (depak) Google Ads & Analytics · since 2004

Certifications & awards

IHK Region StuttgartCommittee for Digitalization & IT EconomyIHK Region Stuttgart · since 2015 ↗

Expertise

Skills that make an impact

From classic performance marketing to orchestrating autonomous AI agents — combined into solutions with measurable impact.

📈

Digital Marketing & Performance

SEA, paid social, funnels, lead gen & brand — measurable from the first impression to conversion.

🔎

SEO → AIO / GEO

From search-engine to answer-engine optimization: visible in Google AI Mode, ChatGPT & co.

🛒

E-Commerce (international)

20 years of shop, assortment, internationalization & marketplaces — B2C and B2B.

New
🤖

AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems

Orchestrating autonomous agents — research, content, analysis, automation. An orchestra, not a single tool.

New

Extreme Vibe Coding

Building with AI at extreme speed — from your phone, on your lunch break, live & deployable. Idea → product in minutes.

⚙️

Marketing Automation & MarTech

Tracking, data architectures, GA4/BigQuery, predictive audiences — data-driven instead of gut feeling.

🧭

Leadership & Company Building

Building teams, structures and companies — from setup to scaling.

🔐

Data Sovereignty & EU Focus

Running AI & analytics on your own terms — privacy and performance are not a contradiction.

🎤

Speaking & Impulses

Talks & keynotes on AI, commerce & growth — including dmexco, E-Commerce Days, OMT, K5, IHK, Fraunhofer.

🤝

M&A & Integration

Investments, acquisitions and their integration — e.g. Creative360 into KlickPiloten. From the deal to truly growing together.

🧲

Demand-led Commerce

Actively creating demand instead of just collecting it — commerce that builds markets, not just skims them.

Career

Roles & Showcase

CEO & Founder
KlickPiloten GmbH — klickpiloten.de ↗
2014 – today
Built a performance agency from 0 to 60+ digital marketers — Stuttgart, Hamburg & Berlin. FOCUS Top Employer (Mittelstand).
Managing Partner
DigitalNativeAlliance — digitalnativealliance.com ↗
2002 – today
Owner-run agency group for the Mittelstand: 200+ team members across 9 cities & remote in Europe.
Advisory Board & Co-Founder
NETFORMIC GmbH & LLC (New York) — netformic.com ↗
2002 – today
E-commerce solutions & platforms. Previously CEO & co-founder — clients include fahrrad.de, "Online Shop of the Year 2007".
Investor & Founder
Sigloch Ventures GmbH
Invested in, among others, Yoomind & DigitalNativeAlliance — own holdings & projects.
Advisory Board & Co-Founder
CODA.TECH
2018 – today
Nearshoring: dedicated dev teams for startups, companies & agencies.
Advisory Board
ORCAYA GmbH
2019 – today
AI-based digital products, apps & custom software.
Advisory Board
VERDURE (DigitalNativeAlliance)
2025 – today
High-growth B2B websites & career portals with TYPO3 and UX design.
Senior Expert — M&A
FOSTEC & Company
2020 – 2024
Due diligence & M&A projects in digital and performance marketing for the strategy consultancy.
Lecturer
HfWU Nürtingen (Master) & Popakademie BW
since 2021
Teaching digital marketing, strategy, SEO, SEA, YouTube & analytics.
Member of the Committee for Digitalization & IT Economy
IHK Region Stuttgart
2015 – today
Supervisory Board
Mußler Beauty Online AG
2012 – 2019
Advising management & e-commerce; successfully guided exit (dergepflegtemann.de).
Founder — brickfox GmbH
Multichannel/marketplace software
Built a startup and successfully sold it — successfully sold this startup.
Interim & Consulting
incl. Eberspächer, Krieg Industriegeräte
Digital marketing & e-commerce in the Mittelstand — hands-on over many years.

Brands & Group

What now lives under one roof

DigitalNativeAlliance as a digital agency group for the Mittelstand — with specialized brands.

KlickPiloten — performance marketing agency
KlickPiloten
DigitalNativeAlliance — agency group for the Mittelstand
DigitalNativeAlliance
NETFORMIC — e-commerce solutions
NETFORMIC
VERDURE — B2B websites & career portals
VERDURE
ORCAYA — AI-based digital products
ORCAYA
Creative360 — creative agency
Creative360
KlickPiloten Pulse Academy & Community
Pulse Academy & Community

Worked for brands & clients (selection)

fahrrad.de Eberspächer ADS-TEC Industrial IT DIDYMOS Blum Murrelektronik Märklin VfB Stuttgart Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film Olympus Festo khadi dergepflegtemann.de Spitta TVB Stuttgart KOSMOS Gretsch-Unitas (GU) TÜV SÜD NICKIS — Luxury Children's Fashion City of Stuttgart

Speaking, Teaching & Insights

Stage, Teaching & Community

On stage for over 20 years — from the industry conference to the lecture hall.

Booked by, among others

  • dmexco · E-Commerce Days · Bütema Retail Summit
  • OMT (Agency Day, Summit & Mainz)
  • Fraunhofer · Marketing Club Region Stuttgart · IHK
  • Webanalytics Night · Social Media Night · SEO-Stammtisch
  • MTV Business Club Stuttgart — Google AI Mode & ChatGPT
  • Analytics Pioneers Meetup — GA4, BigQuery & LLM/MCP

Teaching & Topics

  • Lecturer — HfWU Nürtingen (Master) & Popakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Lecturer & mastermindPulse Academy & Community by KlickPiloten ↗
  • Performance-focused ad creatives in social media
  • Google Ads performance & brand marketing
  • SEO, Google Ads, targeting & marketing automation
  • AI agents, AIO/GEO & the future of customer acquisition

Out and about · Big Tech & Insights

Insights on TikTok

Videos & Podcasts

See & hear me

Interviews, talks & podcasts on AI, commerce & growth. One click starts the video — YouTube only loads after your consent.

Podcasts to listen to

How does my brand become visible in ChatGPT & co.? Marketing Leaders · episode #7
Lead generation with AI — a guide AI-generated podcast on the book chapter

Publications & Profiles

Articles & Expert Profiles

As a book co-author, guest author and speaker, I share practical knowledge — linked directly here.

Book cover: Praxishandbuch Digitales Management, Volume 2 – Digital Marketing and Sales (Springer Gabler)
Springer Gabler · book co-author

Praxishandbuch Digitales Management
Volume 2: Digital Marketing & Sales

My chapter: "Lead Generation with AI: A Guide for Modern Companies" — growth marketing & AI-powered lead generation: creating demand in a data-driven way, optimizing the growth funnel and winning leads at scale. In the standard reference (48 expert contributions) edited by Stefan Detscher & Michael Hepp · Springer Gabler, 2026 · eBook & print.

To the chapter & eBook ↗

Selected articles — linked directly

Blog archive · 2006–2014

First blog post from 2006 — „Web 2.0, here I come… Blog post from 2014 — „Google buries PageRank
My first blog — over 100 articles (2006–2014)

From „Yet another blog – Web 2.0, here I come…" (01/09/2006) to „An era ends: Google buries PageRank" (10/10/2014), I wrote over 100 articles on online marketing & SEO. A historical document — the blog has long since disappeared.

Testimonials

Don't take my word for it

What clients, colleagues and partners say about working together.

„Stephan Sigloch is the expert for anything related to Online Marketing — he'll always find new ways to display his expertise and bring in a vast amount of experience to give you the best recommendations possible."
Joshua Keller
Joshua KellerOnline Marketing Manager (client) · 2024
„I've known Stephan for many years — an absolute expert in his field. Whether SEO, multichannel solutions or entire WordPress sites: I can recommend him without reservation!"
Lutz Gaissmaier
Lutz GaissmaierCEO Studibuch · 2020
„Full of verve and innovative ideas, Stephan leads his company through a year of financial crises without losing growth momentum — brilliance in e-commerce and marketing with consequent leadership."
Uli HäfeleDigital Leader · 2010
„I had the chance to build up the Hamburg office at KlickPiloten. Stephan always has an answer to any technical question and is one of the most driven people I know — highly recommended!"
Alexander Papanikolaou
Alexander PapanikolaouPerformance Marketing Manager · 2020
„I got to know Stephan as the expert for mail order and online marketing. If the phrase 'once you work with pros' needs a match, it applies to Stephan without reservation."
Hagen MaischnerE-Commerce Enthusiast · 2014
„Stephan teaches our students in areas such as social media marketing, usability & screen design. A person of integrity and an extremely competent lecturer."
Felix GerhardtCampus Manager, SAE Institute Stuttgart · 2016
„A guest lecture to 600 students on the fundamentals, possibilities and trends in online marketing — Google Zukunftswerkstatt, University of Augsburg."
Prof. Dr. Heribert Gierl
Prof. Dr. Heribert GierlUniversity of Augsburg · May 2019
„You're such a great boss, just wanted to let you know 😊"
Isabel BinningerHead of Operations, KlickPiloten · 2019

Contact

Let's talk digital.

Marketing, e-commerce, AI agents or a specific project — feel free to drop me a line. Or book a time directly: You bring the idea, I'll bring the cookies 🍪 😉

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Who is Stephan Sigloch?
Digital marketing expert, entrepreneur and speaker from Stuttgart with over 25 years of experience — CEO of the performance agency KlickPiloten and co-owner of the DigitalNativeAlliance. Focus: digital marketing, e-commerce, AI agents & AIO/GEO.
What areas can I work with you on?
Performance & growth marketing, e-commerce (national & international), SEO/AIO/GEO, marketing automation, AI agents & multi-agent systems, plus M&A & integration — as well as talks, keynotes and teaching. Delivery runs through my companies (including KlickPiloten & DigitalNativeAlliance) — but feel free to reach out directly here first: I advise personally up front and bring the right colleagues into the project.
What does „AIO / GEO" mean?
AIO (AI Optimization) or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) = visibility not only in classic search engines, but in AI answer engines like Google AI Mode, ChatGPT & co.
What is „Extreme Vibe Coding & Creation"?
Building at top speed with AI — from your own SaaS product to a game app. From idea to product in minutes instead of months, with a human in the loop and clean guardrails.
Do you give talks and keynotes?
Yes — for over 20 years on stages (dmexco, E-Commerce Days, OMT, K5, Fraunhofer and many more) as well as lecturing at HfWU Nürtingen & Popakademie BW. Topics: AI, commerce & growth. You can also book me for keynotes or coaching — the easiest way is to have my agent set up a time via Calendly.
What is WebMCP – and what does this page have to do with it?
WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) is a new W3C standard that lets a website offer its features to AI agents as controllable "tools" — the agent doesn't have to guess its way through the layout. Among other things, this page registers get contact, book a meeting and list/open videos & podcasts. That way an AI browser can use the content directly and reliably — a perfect fit for my topics of AI agents & AIO/GEO.