Stefanie Kuptsova
Global Operations Manager
“I’ve always been drawn to the spaces where creativity meets structure — where a bold idea becomes a real experience. I don’t believe in waiting for the ‘right moment’ — if there’s a project worth building, I’m all in. From late-night calls across time zones to leading volunteer teams on the ground, I’ve learned that real impact starts with showing up and taking responsibility. At Althafen, I’m proud to be part of a team where talent, purpose, and action come together to make things happen.”
Stefanie is a rising creative producer specialising in arts management, event, administration, and digital marketing. She obtained her BA degree in Northeastern London on Art History with Psychology. Before she studied Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow.
Alongside her academic career, she followed her professional pursuits in Paris, Moscow, London, where Stefanie worked in a media-tech startup Replic8 gaining experience in digital marketing and machine-learning tooling. Being deeply embedded into London student life, she led the UCL Eurasian Business Conference in 2024, gathering more than 500 guest experts from entrepreneurial industry and emerging student-found startups. Eventually bringing her into assisting the event production for Global Talent Club. She also dedicated her time to gallery assistance and curatorship for Ainalaiyn Space and Three Highgate Gallery, where she was responsible for exhibition programming, PR and sales coordination, and on-site management.
In 2023, she was introduced to an opportunity to assist Mark Prihodko on a Institutionalization of Ghetto Classics Project in Kenya. Soon she became a project lead, ensuring continuous operations between London and Nairobi for a year. Her exceptional work ethics led her to be one of the core members of Prihodko’s team, eventually joining him on reinvention of a new visionary course for Althafen Foundation, responsible for ensuring seamless onboarding and the compliance of the 4 membering foundations and the inception of the Global Impact Circle.
As a new member of the core Althafen team, she undertook an in-person internship, managing on-site operations at the Summer Arts Lounge Festival from June to August 2024, also leading a volunteer program for the festival, bringing together a team of 24 individuals from 13 different countries. Stefanie is now offered a position of Global Operations Manager and will join the Berlin headquarters team this May.