Castellan · Leadership
Castellan · Leadership

An operator team, not a paper company.

Castellan is led by the people who have built and operated power & compute infrastructure for a decade. Born out of the Bitkern Group, the team carries operating DNA — grid connections, data-centre construction, 24/7 operations — into the build-out of sovereign AI infrastructure.

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The team

Built on a decade of power & compute operating DNA.

Every function that decides whether AI infrastructure actually gets delivered — power, construction, commercial structuring, legal, finance, and IT — is led by an operator who has done it before at the Bitkern Group, across Switzerland, Austria, and the United States.

Stefan Kern
CEO & Chairman · Founder, Bitkern Group

Founder of the Bitkern Group and architect of Castellan's sovereign-AI thesis. A decade operating power & compute infrastructure at scale across Switzerland, Austria, and the United States.

Henning Peter
Chief Commercial Officer & Board Member

Tenant origination and anchor-lease structuring. Commercial strategy for hyperscale, sovereign-cloud, and regulated AI workloads on long-tenor, triple-net terms.

Killian Schärli
Legal Advisor

Corporate governance, contract architecture, and multi-jurisdictional compliance across Switzerland, the EU, and the US. Counsel with MLL Legal; structures Castellan's holdings, leases, and investment documentation.

Andrew McKinney
Head of Operations · USA

Site delivery and commissioning across the US portfolio. A decade operating multi-megawatt power & compute facilities with the Bitkern Group — from ground-break to ready-for-rack.

Vanessa Lehner
Head of Finance

Group finance, IFRS readiness, and institutional reporting. Financial discipline for a fast-scaling capital programme, built on the Bitkern Group's operating track record.

Manuel Stich
Head of IT

AI software and use-case expertise — translating tenant workloads into infrastructure requirements. Leads platform IT, security operations, and automation, built on a decade of large-scale operations at the Bitkern Group.

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Governance

Swiss governance, institutional discipline.

Castellan Intelligence AG is a Swiss Aktiengesellschaft in formation (Art. 620 ff. of the Swiss Code of Obligations), domiciled in Zug. The corporate structure is built for institutional counterparties from day one — see our imprint, our vision, and the operating heritage behind the company.

Legal form
Swiss Aktiengesellschaft in formation (Art. 620 ff. OR) · domiciled in Zug, Switzerland
Board of directors
Stefan Kern — CEO & Chairman ad interim
Board expansion
Additional board members to be appointed before the first external financing round
Auditors
Statutory auditors (Revisionsstelle) to be appointed following incorporation
Reporting
Institutional reporting standards · IFRS readiness

Talk directly to the operators.

Tenants, partners, and professional market participants deal with the team that delivers — not with intermediaries.