President & CEO
For four decades, Stan Kasten has been a highly respected sports figure and developed a reputation for creating winning franchises, relying on three pillars ¨C scouting and player development, enhancing the fan experience and community outreach ¨C to establish franchises built for long-term success on and off the field.
That track record has continued during his tenure with the Dodgers, where the club has had an unprecedented run of success. With the 2024 World Series title, Los Angeles has now won two of the past five World Series, four National League pennants in the past eight years and 11 NL West titles in the past 12 seasons. With three World Series titles and more victories, postseason appearances and division titles than any other in the majors in the past 50 years, no team executive can lay claim to as much success in baseball as Kasten.
Since Kasten became the Dodgers¡¯ President and CEO in 2012, the team has topped the Majors in attendance each full season under his leadership while continuously making improvements to Dodger Stadium to keep the league¡¯s third-oldest stadium among the best facilities in baseball. The Dodgers were also named ESPN¡¯s 2020 Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year for the work and community impact of the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation. These achievements led Major League Baseball to award the Dodgers the 2022 All-Star Game, bringing the league¡¯s jewel event back to Los Angeles for the first time since 1980.
Kasten has been a member of numerous MLB, NBA and NHL ownership committees during his professional career and is also a former trustee of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. In 1999, Kasten became the first sports figure to hold the title of president of three different teams in three different major sports simultaneously, doing so with MLB¡¯s Atlanta Braves, the NBA¡¯s Atlanta Hawks and the NHL¡¯s Atlanta Thrashers. Kasten has continued to push the envelope with his leading roles on the Advisory Board of the Professional Women¡¯s Hockey League, founded in 2023, and in the transformation of the Billie Jean King Cup women¡¯s tennis team competition.
In 1979, at age 27, Kasten launched his career in sports by becoming the youngest general manager in NBA history with the Hawks, a position he held until 1990. Kasten became the Hawks¡¯ president in 1986. During his lengthy tenure in the Hawks¡¯ front office, Kasten built the Hawks into a perennial contender, including four consecutive 50-win seasons from 1986-89 and a stretch of seven consecutive playoff appearances in the 1990s, and became the first ¨C and only ¨C NBA executive to win back-to-back Executive of the Year awards in 1986-87.
Kasten also became president of the Braves in 1986. From 1987-2003, the Braves won more games than any other team in MLB and won 14 consecutive division titles (1991-2005), five National League pennants and the 1995 World Series.
In 1999, when the NHL awarded Atlanta an expansion team, Kasten added the title of president of the Thrashers, as well as chairman of the newly constructed Philips Arena (now State Farm Arena). Kasten held all three positions until 2003, when he stepped down.
Prior to joining the Dodgers, Kasten was president of the Washington Nationals from 2006-10, where he worked to re-energize a dormant baseball fan base and simultaneously established a crown jewel franchise in Washington, D.C.
Kasten, the Los Angeles Sports Council¡¯s 2013 Executive of the Year, is former Director of the Sports Lawyer Association and serves on the LA84 Foundation Board of Directors, the Rose Bowl Institute Advisory Board as well as the Board of the US Japan Foundation
A native of Lakewood, N.J., Kasten is a graduate of New York University and Columbia University Law.