CEO and management team recruited to lead FanTeam

Scout Gaming is proud to announce that a complete management team has been recruited to lead Scout Gaming’s subsidiary FanTeam.

Ellinor Kilegran has been appointed CEO for Scout Gaming subsidiary FanTeam. She has extensive experience from the gambling sector and was previously Group Expansion Manager at LeoVegas working directly with their new market entries, acquisitions and growth. Prior to which she was part of a casino start-up from inception.

The rest of the team includes; Edward Sedvall, CTO, who prior to FanTeam held a Lead tech position at Pricerunner and LeoVegas. Edward Eklund, Chief Digital Strategist, comes with extensive marketing experience from e.g. Adsets and LeoVegas. Ola Wallin, CPO, previously worked as Product Manager at LeoVegas Sports. Andreas Ericsson, CFO, has a solid background in Corporate Advisory and Investor Relations from previous positions at Redeye, Wildeco and listed companies. Andreas will be joining the team in October 2018.

FanTeam was launched in 2014 as a stand-alone fantasy sports operator and has been Scout’s test-bed for new features and functions. FanTeam has a small yet growing user base and as previously communicated it will be spun off and listed at first north as a separate entity. FanTeam will be a sports focused operator and will over time offer a complete sports experience.

“We are delighted to have recruited a strong and experienced management team to lead FanTeam going forward. We see great potential for a successful standalone operator journey for FanTeam and I’m convinced that we could’t have found a better team to conduct it” said Andreas Ternström, CEO of Scout Gaming.

For additional information, please contact:
Andreas Ternström, CEO, Scout Gaming
Tel: +46 706 770 660
E-mail: [email protected]

Ellinor Kilegran, CEO, FanTeam
Tel: + 46 704 266 999
E-mail: [email protected]

About Scout Gaming Group:

Scout Gaming Group is a licensed and regulated provider of B2B Daily Fantasy Sports and pool betting. The company offers a flexible and customizable network based Fantasy Sports solution with support for most sports and leagues through an in-house StatCenter which also provides real-time information to players. Local sports can be provided on request. The Group has approximately 60 staff and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden with development and operations in Bergen, Norway and Lviv, Ukraine. Sales, support and product management is handled from the office in Malta.