Karsten Petersen
Associé,
Leader of Innovation & Business Building in EMEA specializing in Innovation, Incubation, CVC and Venture Building. Passionate about creating innovative businesses that scales.
À propos de Karsten
Expertise
Highlights
- Business builder with 20+ years of start-up, venture and consulting experience
Karsten Petersen is the leader of our Innovation & Business Building solution in EMEA.
Karsten is an entrepreneur and business builder focused on helping companies innovate, grow, and rapidly scale while building sustained competitive advantage. His work spans innovation strategy and organizational systems to support them in growth-led transformations, including taking bold new products and ventures from seed to scale.
Karsten has founded several start-ups and co-founded Vertical Strategy and served as partner prior to joining Bain.
Karsten advises clients across a range of industries, most recently leading innovation and business building engagements in the financial services, food & agriculture, healthcare, energy and advanced manufacturing sectors.
He holds a M.S. in Engineering from Aalborg University.
Recent Insights
- “Built to Be Bold: Why the Best Innovators Run Two Systems,” Innovation Report, 9 septembre 2025, Rapport
- “The New ROI: Defy Uncertainty by Boosting Return on Innovation ,” Etude, 27 avril 2023