Desk Evolvement 2 - All other previous duties as on Tennis & Table Tennis Desk.Desk is now a dedicated Tennis & Racquet Sports Desk. With consistent daily offer of Badminton and Padel Tennis trading responsibilities bolted on. Hoping to evolve further in future and keeping a keen watch on potential racquet sports such as Squash and Pickleball. We also offer Surfing. With this offer and various Country Management requests, the desk is truly global in nature with a strong diversification of… Show more Desk Evolvement 2 - All other previous duties as on Tennis & Table Tennis Desk.Desk is now a dedicated Tennis & Racquet Sports Desk. With consistent daily offer of Badminton and Padel Tennis trading responsibilities bolted on. Hoping to evolve further in future and keeping a keen watch on potential racquet sports such as Squash and Pickleball. We also offer Surfing. With this offer and various Country Management requests, the desk is truly global in nature with a strong diversification of customer country appeal. Show less

Desk Evolvement 1 - All other previous duties as HOD on Tennis Desk. During 2020 and the Covid pandemic, Table Tennis was the standout sporting product, albeit surprisingly. To fulfil the potential and management of its traders, this sport was merged onto the Tennis desk. Thus, reshaping the Tennis Desk as the Tennis and Table Tennis Desk.Ownership and management of Table Tennis & the incoming TT traders all from Cape Town now my responsibility. Desk size has grown to a flotation… Show more Desk Evolvement 1 - All other previous duties as HOD on Tennis Desk. During 2020 and the Covid pandemic, Table Tennis was the standout sporting product, albeit surprisingly. To fulfil the potential and management of its traders, this sport was merged onto the Tennis desk. Thus, reshaping the Tennis Desk as the Tennis and Table Tennis Desk.Ownership and management of Table Tennis & the incoming TT traders all from Cape Town now my responsibility. Desk size has grown to a flotation of around 16 traders. Plenty of solid foundation work has taken place to make this a strong desk working on 2 of the fastest sports and high event volumes. Responsibilities include coaching and managing remote trading teams all in multiple locations for a long time. Blending these together to achieve consistent high performance.Table Tennis is now one of the primary & prioritized daily sports, setting positive record-breaking key metrics and generating top level profits. Customers love the quick action, and it is a constant hit, maintaining momentum and popularity even when all other sports are on offer.TTT products are the quickest out there leading to a high volume, quick frequency type of trading. Monthly event volumes are around 6,500 Tennis and 7,500 Table Tennis matches, so there is always some TTT event taking place and work to be done, even on traditional holidays, it doesn’t stop. Show less

Tennis was clearly fulfilling its potential key metric wise; more resource was required, and decision was taken to set it up as a dedicated individual desk. Promoted to Head of Tennis and eventually in charge of a team of 9-10 traders. Building a strong team with a good desk culture resulting in high performance and high staff retention levels. Responsibilities;• PL performance of key metrics.• Expert knowledge in trading systems and technical expertise.• Fully understanding the… Show more Tennis was clearly fulfilling its potential key metric wise; more resource was required, and decision was taken to set it up as a dedicated individual desk. Promoted to Head of Tennis and eventually in charge of a team of 9-10 traders. Building a strong team with a good desk culture resulting in high performance and high staff retention levels. Responsibilities;• PL performance of key metrics.• Expert knowledge in trading systems and technical expertise.• Fully understanding the desk and the wider trading floor key metrics.• Expert knowledge of trading tools, how to maximise their effectiveness.• Expert knowledge of all sportsbook customers and their likely future PL performance.• Use of customer profiling tools and databases.• Reports and bespoke compilation of reports to aid data value.• In charge of the rota and scheduling of all traders.• Trading recruitment and interviews. Managing mid and end of year appraisals.• Mentoring and coaching traders on the desk needs, also on their Learning & Development, Personal Development Plans in partnership with HR. Supporting their career development.• Travelling to other locations when needed.• Aware of industry trends, notably in terms of regulatory & compliance. Keep on top of industry news, webinars, readings.• Aware of competitor offerings. Looking for any new innovations.• BetYourWays / Market Specials & Props / Boosts• Championing sporting integrity, active member of ESSA/IBIA for many years.• Constantly analysing product and trying to gain USPs vs the industry.• Stakeholder management and working with multiple departments.o Trading / Marketing / Business Analytics / Content / Translations / Customer Service / Trading Support / Sports Product Team / Country Managers / IT / Quants & Development / Integrity / Settlement / Fraud / Other HODs Show less

Initially approached from late Feb 2014 to see if I would be interested in taking charge of the Betway Tennis Product. After a series of interviews, I decided it represented an interesting challenge both professionally and personally with myself & family relocating to Malta. Responsibilities.• In charge of a small tennis team, giving instructions and organising the rota.• Compiling pre match odds for tennis matches, aim to be competitive and often stand out prices on various odds… Show more Initially approached from late Feb 2014 to see if I would be interested in taking charge of the Betway Tennis Product. After a series of interviews, I decided it represented an interesting challenge both professionally and personally with myself & family relocating to Malta. Responsibilities.• In charge of a small tennis team, giving instructions and organising the rota.• Compiling pre match odds for tennis matches, aim to be competitive and often stand out prices on various odds comparison sites, such as odds portal and odds checker.• Analysing the live product, making sure this mostly automated product is performing well, matches are organised and scheduled for the day, avoiding dubious/suspect matches.• Capturing new market share with a variety of trading strategies. and making • Making an above average profit.• Compiling analytical reports to monitor performance by markets, leagues and customers.• Ongoing customer analysis and factoring.• Liaising with marketing teams to create product specials for them to send out to customers or agreements to stand out on certain prices, to both generate PR and bring in new accounts.• Future creativity to look at other avenues for profit and acting towards them in the company’s best interests. Helping on other UK sports when needed. Show less

Starting as the initial live tennis trader, effectively built the team up from scratch to eventually managing and leading a 24/7 tennis desk with a team of up to 14 tennis traders, a mixture in Guernsey, Manila and remotely. Ensuring a highly competitive and profitable tennis product is available on the website as much as possible. Responsibilities;• Daily, weekly, and monthly rota organisation.• Customer management, analysis and decision making on factoring.• Analysing team and… Show more Starting as the initial live tennis trader, effectively built the team up from scratch to eventually managing and leading a 24/7 tennis desk with a team of up to 14 tennis traders, a mixture in Guernsey, Manila and remotely. Ensuring a highly competitive and profitable tennis product is available on the website as much as possible. Responsibilities;• Daily, weekly, and monthly rota organisation.• Customer management, analysis and decision making on factoring.• Analysing team and individual trading performances.• Coaching and mentoring of traders – Bringing them on from scratch to developing them towards consistently top margin % traders.• Writing monthly reports for senior management.• Liaise with various company counterparts such as senior management, customer service, IT, marketing and other trading desks.• Liability and margin control/management of all tennis betting markets.• Trading numerous thousands of live tennis matches to the highest standard.• Analysing ways to improve the tennis team, our products and sustain a best-in-class performance.• Automation of certain tennis matches with Betradar / Enetpulse feeds and evaluating their performance with views to improving turnover, income GW and margin %.• Trading pre match tennis to a high level with aggressive stand out industry prices.• Set up and established Quarterly and yearly Trader competitions with good success and team boosting morale.Achievements• In over 8 years, have achieved just about every tennis bonus target going even with targets being raised year after year.• Record levels of turnover achieved, margin made and a superior year in, year out margin % made on tennis of +6%.• Being part of the early tennis team and helping to grow this into the clear 2nd biggest sports product (After football) in terms of turnover and margin made.• Coaching numerous tennis traders to get the best out them. • Involvement and creation of several in house trading/customer/coaching reports. Show less

Brought onto help the tennis product and start a new in running tennis service. Responsibilities.• Trading tennis matches initially only from match market, to including game, sets and point winner markets all without the use of a price engine.• Set up and creation of tennis markets.• Traded other sports when needed such as darts, basketball, and soccer.• Pre-Match Tennis. Compiling yearly tennis ‘specials’ markets.• Customer queries, management, and factoring.

Set up and trader assistant for this betting outfit which had a big focus on the Italian domain and lucrative agent business.• Set up of numerous betting markets, mainly tennis, soccer, and basketball.• Monitoring trading liabilities and settling of events.• Live betting and odds compiling on tennis, basketball, and soccer.

• Set up and creation of horseracing markets from scratch, no SIS feeds, non-runner alerts or price monitoring and settlement. Everything done manually with many long hours worked, routine 12-hour days with only 2 traders covering this product.• Managing risk on various sports book products through bet alerts and manually checking trading liabilities and prices.• Odds compiling on various sports such as rugby union, golf, nascar, curling and darts.

• For this innovative shop start up, would act as broker who would help teach new customers about the betting exchanges and new ways to bet and to back & lay trade. • Leasing out terminal hires to the day traders and professional gamblers.• Opening and closing the shop, counting the day’s takings on all our products such as sports betting terminal hires, betting commissions, the mini casino machines, and the cafe.• Created the cash betting service that allowed us to offer betting to… Show more • For this innovative shop start up, would act as broker who would help teach new customers about the betting exchanges and new ways to bet and to back & lay trade. • Leasing out terminal hires to the day traders and professional gamblers.• Opening and closing the shop, counting the day’s takings on all our products such as sports betting terminal hires, betting commissions, the mini casino machines, and the cafe.• Created the cash betting service that allowed us to offer betting to walk in customers off the street, enabling a new income stream for the shop.• Promoted to shop manager and training of new staff. Show less

Trading on the betting exchanges, finding value opportunities through arbitrage, top line price moves, analysing markets, dutch betting, creating value books.

• Daily monitoring of failing trades for Institutional clients. Building and maintaining client relationships with various internal and external counterparts, such as traders, collateral, country agent banks and customer service.• High degree of risk management and inventory control of stock/shares. Moving this stock to where it was needed in a constant deadline driven environment.• Protecting the Morgan Stanley Bank through prioritisation of aged failing trades, high exposure and buy… Show more • Daily monitoring of failing trades for Institutional clients. Building and maintaining client relationships with various internal and external counterparts, such as traders, collateral, country agent banks and customer service.• High degree of risk management and inventory control of stock/shares. Moving this stock to where it was needed in a constant deadline driven environment.• Protecting the Morgan Stanley Bank through prioritisation of aged failing trades, high exposure and buy in market trades. Show less

• Served in the UOTC for 3 years whilst at university. • Developed a strong involvement into countless aspects of the British Army. • Participation on numerous training camps and competitions within the UK, Germany, Canada, and Nepal. • Passed Regular Commissioning Board course for sponsoring by regiment to acceptance to full time Officer training at Sandhurst upon university graduation.