CTS Eventim AG & Co. KGaA announced that it expands its product & tech leadership team: Karl Pitrich will take on the newly created role of Senior Vice President Software Engineering as of 18 August 2025. Karl Pitrich will report to Karel Dörner, CTO of CTS EVENTIM.
As the new SVP Software Engineering, Karl Pitrich will take responsibility for the majority of the company?s software developers and further develop their organisation both functionally and structurally. In addition, together with CPO Thorsten Schäffler, he will drive the strategic establishment and expansion of cross-functional Product & Tech product teams. Karl Pitrich brings more than 20 years of experience building high-performance engineering teams, along with deep expertise in technology, leadership and talent development. After holding several founder roles as well as positions at various software and e-commerce providers, he became Head of Engineering at HolidayCheck in 2014.
In 2017, he joined McKinsey as a Digital Expert Associate Partner. For the past four years, he served as CTO of Mister Spex, where he was responsible for the company?s overall technology strategy.
