
Fabian Köppel
CEO
Background in high-potential recruitment and B2B sales. Knows both sides: organizations and talent.
Cebras is a spin-off from the Mensa community. Several of our founders are highly gifted themselves, and across our wider circle we have spent years watching what happens when cognitive potential is identified early but never structurally picked up: misguided choices, unnecessary detours, capabilities that never reach application. Not because the people couldn’t have delivered — but because the right infrastructure was missing.
This is systemic. Our education and support systems are consistently optimized for breadth: equal opportunity, permeability, leaving no one behind. What’s missing is a comparable infrastructure for people who think differently. Those who are wired differently and above average are rarely recognized as such, and even more rarely supported in a targeted way, with correspondingly high costs, for the individuals and for society.
We don’t believe this is an individual problem. It is a structural one. And because it is structural, it is solvable. Cebras exists to close this gap — with the kind of diagnostics and development we would have needed ourselves.
To us, giftedness isn’t a trait to be shown off. It is responsibility. Those with greater potential carry more — in decisions, in relationships, in what comes of it all. Intellect and speed alone aren’t enough. Without self-knowledge, emotional maturity, and a clear sense of values, giftedness stays raw material. It can shine, it can wound, it can run to nothing. What interests us, then, isn’t performance but the foundation beneath it. Those who know themselves, take responsibility, and can be in relationship with others turn giftedness into more than talent — they make it sustainable.
Everyone here is answerable for a part of the company we have worked in ourselves.

CEO
Background in high-potential recruitment and B2B sales. Knows both sides: organizations and talent.

CTO
Bridging AI and equal opportunity in technical education. Builds the platform on which diagnostics and coaching run.

CSO
Has led organizations and sold diagnostic instruments to companies. Responsible for sales and key account management.

CMO
Responsible for marketing, social media, and new sales channels. Makes diagnostics accessible: clear instead of complicated.

Head of Strategic Partnerships
15 years in education policy (funding, talent development). Builds the operational structures that make diagnostics scalable.

Strategic Advisor
Builds business and strategic partnerships. Board member Mensa Austria. Connects capital and talent.

Head of Coaching
Expert in executive development in top and middle management. Translates human coaching into AI formats.

Head of Talent & Psychology
Expert in psychological diagnostics and gifted profiling. Responsible for the scientific product foundation.

Mensa Ambassador | Business Development Support
Network development and positioning of Cebras at the intersection of giftedness, business and innovation.
Cebras Potential Development GmbH was founded in Vienna in 2025, out of the Mensa community. We work from IQ 115 upward with recognised instruments, and we say what we measure.
Membership in a high-IQ society says where we come from. What a person does with that ability is the part we work on.
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