Interviews

SBC Business correspondent Mark McGuinness caught up with hot Irish start-up Elemnent Wave’s CEO Dorothy Creaven. Element Wave recent winners of the EIG 2013 Start-up Launch Pad, specialize in creating cutting-edge software for the mobile market, specifically in the user engagement and customer retention space. Mark McGuinness discusses mobile analytics, retention, and how Element Wave can help companies operate in …

Following on from EIG 2013 Barcelona, SBC Business Correspondent Mark McGuinness met with Six Faces’s Shaun Pyrah, Director of Strategy & Product.  Based in Hobart Australia, the  start up Six Faces aims to develop convergence between social games and real money gambling, through its carefully constructed product portfolio. Mark McGuinness, discusses product convergence between social and real money gaming,  Six …

SBC business correspondent Mark McGuinness interviews  Julien Cunze, CEO and Co-Founder Btwiice. Sports betting insurance start up aims to  bookmakers with an all-inclusive solutions to exploit the ‘cash-in’ trend through offering their player base secured betting insurances when they play on a a partner platform.  Btwiice were recently selected to compete at the EIG Expo Barcelona 2013 Start-Up Launch Pad. …

SBC caught up with Alex Kornilov CEO and Founder of BETEGY a young company with an online service that provides football predictions based in Poland and the Ukraine. Betegy is a statistical football predictions and betting tips with over 75% accuracy in Premier League, Bundesliga, Primera Division, Major League Soccer . SBC’s Mark McGuinness caught up Alex Kornilov to discuss …

Following on from their recent announcement with Sportech Plc this week, SBC business correspondent Mark McGuinness caught up with David Galan, CEO of live fantasy sports operator Picklive to chat about the company’s current and future plans. Picklive integrates fantasy sports within gaming/ sports betting businesses by converging fantasy sports, in-play betting, social gaming and live second screen entertainment. Set-up in …

This week SBC catches up with Mark Bosman, International CEO of BetTech Gaming, to discuss African and emerging market igaming and development. Mark co-founded BetTech Gaming, the global provider of premium technology solutions to gaming companies, with Chief Executive Officer Jesse Hemson-Struthers, in August 2009. His role as International CEO sees him focus on business development and identifying new market …

The SBC team catches up with Rory Anderson CEO of 12BET Europe, to discuss 12BET plans for the European Market, cultural betting differences between Asia and Europe and igaming football marketing. Rory joined 12BET in January 2010 with a remit to grow the European business from scratch.  Before joining the company Rory had spent the past seven years working in …

Keith McDonnell is CEO of kmigaming.com and business development director at TotelFootball, the groundbreaking fantasy sports pools betting product. He will be representing TotelFootball in The Pitch at EiG 2013. Keith has extensive experience of global gaming markets, having previously served as managing director of Bodog Europe and Bodog Asia, while other previous roles include being head of online at …

Delegates attending the forthcoming EiG (8-10 October, Barcelona, Spain) will gain a unique insight to the motivations, mindset and most importantly the methodology of Britain’s most successful card fraudster. Tony Sales, who at the height of his criminal ‘career’ was defrauding retailers, finance houses and financial institutions of £30 million through false identities, credit cards and other fraudulent schemes, will …