Stephan was born and raised in the beautiful City of Dortmund, Germany.
After his military service in the German Artillery in Hannover, he studied
Civil/Structural Engineering at the Technical University in Aachen, before
spending the #rst two years of his career in Berlin, participating in the
design of a whole city block in the former East Berlin right behind where
the wall used to be.
When the project was completed, he decided to pursue his Master’s degree
in Structural Engineering at Arizona State University. After successful
completion, Stephan worked in Phoenix for a couple of years, before moving
to Las Vegas and being involved in many strip projects, such as Bellagio,
Venetian, Crystals, 63 CityCenter and the Sphere.
Stephan founded his own company, Kordt Engineering Group, in 2013,
before selling it to Canadian Engineering #rm RJC Engineers in 2022,
where he is now in charge of the continued growth of the US Operations.
Besides working a lot Stephan likes to travel with his wife, kids and friends,
following his hometown soccer team, Borussia Dortmund, to a few games in
interesting cities every year, riding his bicycle and visiting his daughter in
Milwaukee, where she is attending Marquette University and the Wisconsen
College of Medicine, and his son in Phoenix where he studies Biomedical
Engineering at ASU.
With so many good things happening in his live, Stephan found Los
Vaqueros to be the perfect Organization to give back a little and to enjoy the
camaraderie with fellow businesspeople.
