GVC Holdings Appoints Jatte Nygaard-Andersen to the Non-Executive Director Position

GVC Holdings’ board of directors has decided to appoint Jette Nygaard-Andersen to be the independent non-executive director for the company.

Nygaard-Andersen is currently holding a board seat of Copenhagen-listed Coloplast AS. She also serves as a member of the remuneration and nomination committees. She is also a member of the Astralis Group A/S board, in international esports organization and Astralis Group has recently been listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market in Denmark.

Representatives from GVC say that this appointment extends the breadth and depth of the Board’s collective experience and international outlook and that they are looking forward to her contribution given her extensive experience.

Lee Feldman, GVC chairman, commented on the new appointment: “Jette’s appointment further extends the breadth and depth of the Board’s collective experience and international outlook. We look forward to her contribution given her extensive experience in consumer-facing businesses in the entertainment, media and technology sectors.”

An Experienced Individual

Nygaard-Andersen has over 20 years of experience in holding leadership and operational roles in media, entertainment and digital business in general. She also worked on building and operating DTC and OTT streaming services across multiple European countries.

Before she ed the Modern Times Group AB, Nygaard-Andersen held the position of senior strategy consultant at Accenture, offering advice to clients in the telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors.

More About the Company

GVC Holdings is a gambling and online gambling operator that operates in both B2C and B2B markets. It is one of the world’s largest sports-betting and gaming groups and it is licensed in over 20 jurisdictions and has a current workforce of more than 25,000 experts in 20 offices across five continents.

The company is a member of FTSE 250. GVC offers a highly scalable and robust platform, proprietary sportsbook, casino, poker and bingo software. The Group owns a wide portfolio of well-established brands. Their sports brands include bwin, Coral, Crystalbet, Eurobet, Ladbrokes, Neds International and Sportingbet.

As far as games brands go, the Group owns CasinoClub, Foxy Bingo, Gala, Gioco Digitale, partypoker and PartyCasino and has also extended its Italian footprint. It holds ownerships for proprietary technology across all of its core product verticals and aside from their B2C operations they provide services to third-party customers on a B2B basis.

It also operates in the United States through Roar Digital, a t-venture with MGM Resorts, created to capitalize on the regulated sports betting and gaming in the US. In the United Kingdom, it owns Ladbrokes Coral Group, which was acquired in 2018.

Source:

“Board Appointment”, gvc-plc.com, December 11, 2019.