Lottery operator SAZKA Group has brought in experienced retail executive and former Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King CBE to provide counsel as the company bids to operate the UK National Lottery.
King will be the inaugural appointment to an advisory board that will work closely with bid chair Sir Keith Mills and [...]
Britain’s problem gambling prevention charity GambleAware has named Zoë Osmond as its next chief executive.
Osmond will take over as CEO at the end of March, replacing Marc Etches, who announced he would be stepping down from the role last August.
Osmond has served as communications and engagement director at GambleAware for [...]
Digital sports media specialist DAZN Group has confirmed the appointments of Shay Segev and James Rushton as its next co-chief executive officers.
As announced yesterday, Segev will join DAZN in the coming months from Entain to help drive the global sports streaming platform through its next phase of rapid growth.
He will [...]
Entain chief executive Shay Segev has handed in his resignation and is expected to leave the company in the next six months.
Segev is leaving the gaming operator to serve as chief executive of sports streaming platform DAZN, but will remain in the role for the duration of his six-month notice [...]
Sportradar has appointed Jeffery Yabuki as chairman of the board of directors with immediate effect.
Following Sportradar’s recent global reorganization, Yabuki joins Carsten Koerl, Hafiz Lalani, John Doran, Chuck Robel, Marc Walder, Hervé Couturier and George Fleet on the board of Sportradar Group.
Yabuki most recently served as executive chairman of New [...]
Stockholm-listed iGaming affiliate Catena Media has announced the immediate departure of chief executive Per Hellberg, with chairman Göran Blomberg assuming the role on an interim basis.
Blomberg has served on Catena Media’s board of directors since 2019 and was appointed chairman in 2020.
Hellberg had served as chief executive since June 2018 [...]
Malta-based CRM solutions provider Fast Track has appointed Microgaming’s long-serving executive Jean-Luc Ferrière as its new chief commercial officer (CCO).
Ferrière has been working with Fast Track as a brand ambassador since October 2020 and now joins Simon Lidzén, Christopher Hirst and Patrik Potocki as a member of the senior leadership [...]
UK bingo operator Buzz Bingo has appointed former Bragg Gaming CEO Dominic Mansour as chief operating officer of its Digital business.
Mansour will join the company in mid-January and brings extensive iGaming experience to the role, having most recently served as CEO of Bragg Gaming, prior to which he served as [...]
New York-listed casino operator MGM Resorts International has appointed Jonathan Halkyard as its new chief financial officer.
Halkyard previously spent 13 years at Caesars Entertainment as a member of the leadership team that oversaw the company’s $30bn sale to TPG and Apollo, and most recently served as president and CEO of [...]
Finnish gaming platform provider Finnplay Technologies has named Sari Aitokallio as its new managing director.
Aitokallio is a founding partner in the company and has served as the supplier’s chief commercial officer since March 2018, and as a member of the advisory board for the past six years.
She takes over as [...]
New York-listed Penn National Gaming has named Barclays executive Felicia Hendrix as its next chief financial officer.
Hendrix will assume her new role in March after more than 20 years as a research analyst covering the gaming, lodging and leisure industries, most recently as managing director at Barclays.
She replaces David Williams [...]
New York-listed Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI) has appointed Mike Anderson as president of Churchill Downs Racetrack, home of the Kentucky Derby.
Anderson boasts 24 years of strategic and operational leadership experience at CDI, having recently served as vice president of operations, where he led the planning, construction and opening of over [...]