Fortuna Entertainment Group CTO Vladimir Klein to depart

Fortuna Entertainment Group (FEG) Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Klein will leave at the end of September 2025 after 4½ years in the role. The departure follows a year of leadership changes (new CEO, new CFO) and comes after a cycle of front-end, platform, and martech upgrades across CZ, SK, PL, RO, HR. The near-term focus is delivery continuity on a Playtech IMS/PAM core with in-house web/app layers and evolving data/marketing infrastructure.

Fortuna Entertainment Group (FEG) Chief Technology Officer Vladimir Klein said on 22 September 2025 that he will leave the company at the end of the month, after roughly 4½ years in the role. In a public note, he thanked colleagues and referenced a period of significant transformation.

Klein’s departure follows leadership changes at FEG in 2025, Dieter John was appointed CEO effective 7 January 2025, and Uroš Bibić was announced as Group CFO effective 1 September 2025.

The change also comes after owner Penta Investments explored strategic options for FEG in March 2024 before moving ahead with the new chief executive in January. Together, these developments place emphasis on delivery continuity across a multi-market, omni-channel estate. (FEG)

FEG operates across Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania and Croatia under brands that include Fortuna, Casa Pariurilor (RO) and PSK (HR). Company materials list a recent cadence of delivery that includes new casino and sport web platforms for PSK, modernised sportsbook, Live Casino launches (RO/SK), online poker in CZ, and a server-side tracking pilot.

Between 2019 and 2021, FEG completed a multi-market migration to Playtech’s IMS/PAM, creating a unified account/wallet and omni-channel baseline. A 2019 Playtech release highlights the initial migration (Slovakia) with other markets to follow; by July 2021, industry coverage recorded the PSK migration as the culmination of the unified platform programme across six brands in five countries. (Playtech)

Product and data stack signals from public source

• Front-end & content velocity. A July 2025 vendor case study describes FEG achieving faster content deployment across five markets using Directus—an indicator of internalisation and workflow maturity on the content layer. (Directus)

• Marketing/data stack. Bloomreach documentation outlines server-side/first-party identity approaches that align with the “server-side tracking pilot” FEG references in its own materials. (The documentation is general rather than FEG-specific, but demonstrates the technical concept.) (documentation.bloomreach.com)

• Poker launch in CZ. In April 2024, Playtech announced the expansion of the iPoker network into the Czech Republic in partnership with FEG, introducing online poker to FEG’s Czech customers. Trade coverage corroborates the launch. (Playtech)

  
  

Reuters reported in March 2024 that Penta was weighing a sale of FEG with JPMorgan advising, at a reported valuation up to €2bn. By January 2025, that FEG’s owner had ended sale talks and confirmed Dieter John as CEO effective 7 January 2025. Penta also posted a CEO update in January 2025 on its own site. (Reuters)

Implications

• Leadership continuity and release cadence. With a CEO and CFO appointed in 2025 and a CTO transition underway, the operational priority is the continuity of release governance across five jurisdictions and multiple brands. The existing Playtech IMS/PAM baseline suggests near-term work will centre on incremental improvements (pricing/settlement resilience, feed redundancy, compliance automation) rather than wholesale re-platforming.

• Front-end convergence and content workflow. The PSK web rollout and subsequent content-management case study indicate a trajectory toward shared components and faster content operations. Maintaining that trajectory through a leadership change will be a practical marker of execution. (FEG)

• Marketing measurement and privacy durability. Company references to server-side tracking align with broader market movement toward first-party, server-side identity approaches; governance and data-quality controls will be central as this matures.

  
  

Competitive context

Recent Central and Eastern Europe transactions underscore the strategic value of regional scale: Entain announced a £750m acquisition of STS in June 2023, and Flutter acquired an initial 51% stake in Serbia’s MaxBet for €141m in September 2023. These deals contextualise the importance of operational execution for regional incumbents. (Reuters)

What to watch

Successor and interim accountabilities. Whether FEG names an internal technology leader on an interim basis or appoints an external CTO will indicate how it intends to sustain platform and release governance through the peak sporting calendar. (No successor was publicly named at the time of writing.)

Evidence of continued front-end alignment. Look for design-system and promo-framework reuse across Fortuna CZ/SK/PL and Casa Pariurilor (RO) following the PSK rollout.

Martech/data integrations. Public references to server-side tracking and poker launch progress (CZ) provide near-term datapoints on measurement infrastructure and product breadth.