Sebastian Grote

Born in Germany and now splitting his time between Europe and Asia, Sebastian Grote is an award-winning journalist, content creative and business strategist. Sebastian started out as a freelance journalist at the age of 15 and founded his first content marketing agency during his time at university, serving a variety of clients in the automotive and manufacturing space. In 2010, he joined Melbourne-based publishing house Prime Creative Media and helped growing it into Australia’s largest B2B media company. Along the way, he co-founded Global Trailer Magazine, a multi-channel business platform connecting the $90b transport equipment industry, and hosted the Global Heavy Vehicle Leaders’ Summit in Melbourne. Since 2017, Sebastian has been responsible for the strategic development of Singaporean biotech start-up X-ZELL. Ranked as the world’s second-most innovative health-tech start-up of 2020, X-ZELL is able to identify ultra-rare atypical cells in blood and other non-invasive sources and digitise them for on-screen analysis – paving the way for a new age of pain-free, affordable cancer diagnostics.