Sports betting and gaming technology supplier SBTech has appointed former Scientific Games CEO Gavin Isaacs as its new non-executive chairman.
Isaacs, who started in his new SBTech role this week, aims to use his 20 years’ gaming experience across a series of senior management positions to further grow the company’s rapidly expanding US presence.
Since the market opened in mid-2018, SBTech has completed and gone live with several partnership agreements with leading casinos in regulated states including New Jersey and Mississippi.
He spent the last four years as CEO and board member of Scientific Games and was responsible for championing game-changing mergers and acquisitions and growing the global lottery and gaming supplier from $1.3bn to $2.9 bn revenues in two years.
Isaacs said: “I was approached by a number of companies since leaving Scientific Games. However, I chose to join SBTech due to its superior technology, high standards across every discipline, entrepreneurial approach and incredible ambition and potential to grow further across a wide variety of regulated markets including the US where I am based and have an extensive network, knowledge and experience.
“The business has already made significant inroads into the newly regulated US sports betting market and I am extremely excited to be able to help and advise the senior management team to expand that even further across 2019 and beyond.”
Prior to joining Scientific Games in 2014, Isaacs was CEO of SHFL Entertainment, where he grew the company to record revenues, globally expanded its slot business, and created a series of commercial opportunities in speciality table-game brands both in land-based casinos and online.
Richard Carter, CEO at SBTech, said: “We’re thrilled that someone of Gavin’s calibre, credibility and experience has chosen to join SBTech. This is a huge coup for the business.
“Gavin’s two decades of successfully leading, transforming, and acquiring some of the biggest businesses in the gaming sector will be a massive advantage for us, particularly in the US where we have already partnered and gone live with several large brands across multiple states and where there are many more opportunities to grow.”
