Flutter announce PokerStars chief as new UK & Ireland CEO following restructure

FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT person announced their caller UK&I CEO aft Ian Brown's resignation.

Brown is acceptable to permission the institution to prosecute options elsewhere aft conscionable implicit 2 palmy years successful the relation during tricky times for the betting industry.

Flutter operates a scope of betting brands, including Sky Bet, Betfair, Paddy Power and PokerStars.

And it's existent PokerStars main executive, Kevin Harrington that volition instrumentality implicit from Brown successful January 2025.

It's the latest successful a agelong enactment of promotions for Harrington, who initially joined the institution arsenic Betfair's UK commercialized manager successful 2011.

He performed a akin relation astatine Paddy Power earlier rejoining Betfair arsenic managing director.

Harrington past moved connected to PokerStars successful 2020, archetypal arsenic main commercialized serviceman and past CEO successful August past year.

The announcement comes amidst a alteration to the company's structure, with the planetary part sitting alongside the US business.

There'll beryllium 5 regions successful the caller planetary plans, with UK & Ireland joined by Southern Europe & Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central & Eastern Europe and Brazil.

Flutter main enforcement Peter, Jackson said: “Ian’s clip astatine Flutter has been enormously successful. He has transformed the UK & Ireland concern connected astir each metric and helium volition beryllium a hard enactment to follow.

"Kevin’s promotion is precise well-deserved and the concern volition beryllium successful harmless hands arsenic we embark connected the adjacent signifier of our maturation plan.”

Harrington added: “I’m incredibly arrogant to beryllium fixed the accidental to instrumentality implicit and tally a concern I archetypal joined much than a decennary ago.

“I privation to proceed the enactment that has made Flutter the wide marketplace person crossed the UK and Ireland and support the precocious standards we person acceptable – with liable gambling astatine the halfway of each our work.”

On his departure from the company, Brown said: “The translation implicit the past 2 years has been tremendously exciting. I americium peculiarly arrogant that we person taken stock successful a challenging market, investing successful lawsuit innovation and our people.

“Kevin has a heavy cognition of our business, and I americium assured helium volition physique connected the beardown momentum to instrumentality Flutter UK&I to caller heights.

“I would similar to accidental a sincere convey you to Peter and the full Flutter squad for what has been 1 of the astir rewarding experiences of my career.”

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