VfB Stuttgart: Karsten Petry appointed chief marketing and sales officer from July 2026

The supervisory board of VfB Stuttgart (Bundesliga) has appointed Karsten Petry as chief marketing and sales officer, effective from 01/07, announced the club on 03/02/2026.

He will succeed Rouven Kasper, who left Stuttgart on 01/01/2026 to join FC Bayern Munich as a member of the board of management in charge of marketing and sales.

"Since 2021, Karsten Petry has been chief marketing, sales and events officer at the German Sports Aid Foundation (Deutsche Sporthilfe). During this period, he significantly restructured and repositioned this major organisation dedicated to German elite sport, and took its marketing activities to a new level. From 2017 to 2020, he served as managing director for Germany at the international sports marketing agency Octagon, and was a member of its European leadership team," said VfB Stuttgart.

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