Founder Vygerdas Jonikas will now focus on product innovation as CPO

BetGames.TV, the leading live dealer betting games supplier, has hired Andreas Köberl as its new CEO in order to facilitate the company’s next level of growth.

Köberl joins from Playtech Sports, where he started out as Commercial Director and then went onto head up the Trinity Bet Group, operating the Germany and Austria-facing sportsbook brand HPYBET.

Holding several degrees in both engineering and business, including a PhD in high-tech marketing, the Austrian will bring over 12 years of expertise from various positions involved in managing complex software products, including from within the aerospace industry and at Microsoft.

Andreas Köberl, CEO at BetGames.TV, said: “I have had the opportunity to learn from several B2B industry leaders over the past decade, and my recent experience building up a B2C operator in a highly-competitive market will serve me well as I look forward to this exciting challenge at BetGames.TV.

“I am grateful for the trust that has been placed in me. Vygerdas and the team have built an incredible and unique company and culture which I plan to grow to new heights in the coming years.”

Founder of BetGames.TV, Vygerdas Jonikas, will now focus on product innovation as he moves to Chief Product Officer, following the in-house mantra that ‘uniqueness knows no bounds’.

Vygerdas Jonikas, CPO at BetGames.TV, said: “It has been a very pleasant journey, from a crazy idea to today, a successful company, where we have filled the betting market with a constant calendar of table games, lotteries and other inventive live content.

“I strongly believe that everybody should do what they are best at. For me, this means generating new product ideas and driving innovation, and I’m thrilled to have a superbly-qualified candidate in Andreas coming into the CEO role, where his experience and hunger for new challenges fits perfectly.”

Genius Sports has launched a new hiring programme to expand its technical team in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Genius Sports is actively hiring several exciting new positions to drive the development of a new digital competition management system for world football, the next era of enhancements to its basketball data solutions and new solutions for engaging sports fans around the world.

“The products that our team here in Vilnius develop and implement every day are relied upon by sports in over 150 countries worldwide. Amidst the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re excited that Genius Sports’ operations in Vilnius are continuing to expand and look forward to welcoming several more outstanding people to our team,” Matthew Cowling, Head of Product Innovation at Genius Sports, said.

Leander to supply gaming content to Baltics operator

Independent gaming company Leander is very pleased to announce it has signed a deal to launch its games portfolio with Baltic and Nordic-facing Optibet.

Under the terms of the new agreement, Leander’s proprietary and third-party content will now become available to players across all of the Enlabs-owned Optibet’s regional sites.

Games include Leander’s very own hits Ave Caesar, Kraken and Wild West Zone, the latter featuring Leander’s innovative concept ‘Dynamic Ways’, together with the company’s latest release, Mad Monsters.

Steven Matsell, CEO at Leander Games, said he was delighted that Leander’s wide selection of games will now be available to Optibet’s clients.

“Our own games portfolio and that of our partners gives our clients the best selection of games from which to choose. We are always happy to be adding new names to our network and it is great that our content will now get even wider distribution with Optibet in the key region of the Baltics and the Nordics”, he said.

Optibet is a leading operator in the region with operations in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as well as further afield in the Nordics and emerging markets such as Peru and Chile.

Christopher Davis, Head of Gaming at Enlabs, said: “We are very excited to be adding the Leander games portfolio to our offering. The localised nature of each Leander offering is ideally suited to Enlabs multi-country approach in one of the fastest-growing online gaming regions in Europe.”