Svp, Head Of Technology; Head Of New Business Lines
Herzliya Pituach, Israel, Il
As Head of New Business Lines: full P&L responsibility for all 888’s new business lines, including: social networks, payments processing, and affiliation management. In addition, lead 888’s business strategy, legal affairs, and execution in regulatory markets and was responsible for day to day work with local regulating bodies. Dealing with a highly dynamic and local regulatory environment that creates major challenges and opportunities for the gaming industry.As Head of Technology: member of the company’s senior leadership team. Leading all technology aspects of 888 including development of all 888’s products, services, and infrastructure, as well as ongoing technology operations of this global online operator. Led the technology division during transitional years as the company moved from being a B2C provider, with only casino and poker offering, mainly in English to a B2C and B2B company (with over 20 B2B partners), dramatically expanding geographical presence, more than doubling and highly localizing the core offering of the company in 133 countries and 20 languages, through development, partnership, acquisition and integration of several businesses. Negotiated large contracts with vendors, partners and B2B customers. Transformed the technology division, increasing operational and business focus while dramatically increasing quantity, pace, and quality of delivery.Reduced relative costs while significantly increasing offering complexity and velocity of change. Built and grew an offshore development center and moved significant volume of the work to this lower cost location. Accelerated development pace and volume while increasing delivery quality. Evolved company architecture to a flexible, modular, robust and scalable architecture. Eliminated single points of failure and created fully redundant highly available set of services.