People news 24 September 2015
The latest people news from the egaming industry in the last seven days (18 September to 24 September 2015)
Coral restructures trading team in multi-channel move
Sam Foulkes takes on new head of trading role for Coral Interactive amid wider changes
Coral has performed a restructuring of its trading division in a move designed to closer align the operator’s retail and online trading functions.
The headline change has seen head of sports Sam Foulkes relocate from Coral’s Stratford base to its Gibraltar offices in order to take on the new role of head of trading for Coral Interactive.
While retaining some of his previous responsibilities, Foulkes has been tasked with heading-up the Interactive trading division as well as assuming responsibility for the operator’s customer profiling team.
Foulkes will report into Stratford-based trading director Dave Brown on all matters risk, a move which will ensure all final risk decisions are made in London, while sportsbook director Keith O’Loughlin will be Foulkes’ go-to man on other issues such as product development.
Former IGT chief plots UK sports betting launch
US-based mobile technology company iPro plans to bring its recently launched real-money and social in-play sports betting app to the highly competitive UK market.
Ringit! is the first product developed and launched by iPro, which was founded by former head of interactive at IGT Robert Melendres and a number of other industry veterans.
Ringit! allows players to compete in real-time by predicting the next play, drive, score and other match events from their mobile devices while watching NFL contests.
SG Interactive technology chief departs
Scientific Games Interactive’s chief technology officer Jerry Bowskill has left the gaming supplier giant to take up a new role at TouchTunes Interactive Networks.
Bowskill joined Scientific Games back in May 2012 as chief architect, and was named chief technology officers of its interactive division back in December 2013.
His exit comes just months after Scientific Games completed its $5.1bn acquisition of Bally Technologies, but Bowskill said the takeover had nothing to do with him leaving.