Catena Media promotes US chief to CEO role

Catena Media has promoted North America VP Michael Daly to the overall CEO role. Daly will officially take charge of the affiliate on 1 March, picking up from interim CEO Göran Blomberg, who will resume his position as chairman of the board. Blomberg was placed in temporary charge following the firing of Per Hellberg in January amid a transformation process to improve operational efficiency. Daly joined Catena Media in April 2018 as US general manager and is largely responsible for the affiliate’s surging US growth while based in Las Vegas. He is an igaming veteran, having started out as a shuffle master in 2003 before a six-year spell with Bally Technologies until 2012.

He has also served as North America VP for solutions provider GAN and even formed his own igaming consultancy in 2018. “It has been exciting working with Catena Media’s US growth engine these last few years,” said Daly. “The opportunity to work directly with all our global teams is even more exhilarating, as it is a much bigger growth engine,” he added. Interim CEO Blomberg commented: “I have great trust and confidence in Michael as the new CEO of the company. “He is a true leader with a deep knowledge of the company as well as the business. His achievement in developing the US market speaks for itself and I am convinced he is the right person to take Catena into the next development phase.” Catena Media will report its Q4 financial results on 24 February.