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The board of XLMedia has confirmed that Stuart Simms has chosen to resign as Chief Executive of the London AIM-listed igaming media publisher. Updating investors, XLMedia stated that Simms had chosen to “pursue other interests”, but will support the company in its leadership transition as the board begins an executive search to find its successor. CEO of XLMedia since 2019, …

XLMedia (XLM) has moved to strengthen its senior leadership team following Christopher Bell’s decision to vacate as Chair, appointing Julie Markey in an interim role.  Markey steps into the position of interim Chair from her current role of non-executive Director of the Company and Chair of the remuneration committee, and will assume the responsibilities of the job whilst the company …

XLMedia will initiate a recruitment process for a new Non-Executive Chairman, as Christopher Bell withdraws from the position to join ‘Nueva Codere‘, the business identity of Grupo Codere SA. During his nearly eight years as Chair of XLMedia, Bell oversaw the group’s IPO on the London AIM in 2014 as well as ‘a number of successful strategic acquisitions’ – the firm …

The board of ‘Nueva Codere‘, the business identity of Grupo Codere SA under the ownership of bondholders, has nominated Christopher Bell to serve as new Non-Executive Chairman.  The candidacy will be subject to the approval of the shareholders’ general meeting of Nueva Codere scheduled for 7 February. The meeting will aim to resolve the ‘construction of a new board that will …

XLMedia Plc has confirmed the appointment of Cédric Boireau as a non-executive director of the London AIM-listed igaming publishing group with immediate effect. Boireau will serve as the appointed representative of Premier Investissement, a Parisian fund that currently serves as XLMedia’s largest shareholder maintaining 28% of corporate shares. A 9-year executive of Premier Investissement, Boireau has formerly led Bassac – …

XLMedia Plc has cited confidence in delivering on its full-year financial expectations and corporate objectives following positive first-half trading in 2021.   Publishing an H1 trading update (period ending 30 June), the London AIM-listed digital publisher expects to generate interim revenues of $32 million, up 15% on corresponding H1 2020 results of $27.7 million. Corporate performance has been buoyed by the …

The board of XLMedia has confirmed the resignation of Iain Balchin as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the London AIM listed igaming publisher.  Balchin, who will depart the company on 22 July, is set to be replaced as CFO by Rowan Ellis, who has served as a financial consultant to XLMedia since April 2020. XLMedia informs that Ellis has provided …

XLMedia has confirmed the appointment of Nigel Leigh as new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the London AIM-listed digital publishing group. An expert in executing digital transformation strategies, Leigh joins XLMedia’s executive management team from UK news publishing group JPIMedia, where he spearheaded several projects, which overhauled the firm’s multimedia assets and digital advertising strategy. Prior to his role at …

XLMedia has continued to pursue a ‘multi-track approach’ to recovering its casino rankings after a number of its websites were penalised by Google during the first half of 2020 trading. Publishing a trading update, the London AIM-listed affiliate marketing network informed investors that it expects to deliver group revenues of approximately $54.5 million. Excluding business transformation costs and share-based payments, …