Senior Management Appointments at Paddy Power plc

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Paddy Power plc

19 June 2012

 



Senior Management Appointments at Paddy Power plc

Paddy Power plc today (June 19^th) announces senior management appointments which, given the increasing scale of the Group, will further enhance its strategic capacity and operational capability.

William Reeve (39), the co-founder of LOVEFiLM.com, has been appointed Head of Operations, a new role in the Group, effective September 5th. In this role, William will oversee Technology, Risk & Trading, HR and Corporate Strategy.  Responsibility for strategy within business units and new geographies will remain under existing functional heads.

Fin Goulding (51), the former CTO of lastminute.com, has been appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) effective June 18^th, with responsibility for leading the technology functions for the Group's business channels in the UK, Ireland and Italy. Fin will report to William.

Paddy Power Chief Executive Patrick Kennedy said:
"William and Fin are great additions to our management team. Their appointments will strengthen our ability to grow the business through operational scaling, technology development and strategic planning. William will bring deep online operations experience, along with great strategic thinking to the Group. Fin has best in class technology expertise and leadership experience which will add to our ability to scale our technology function in support of continued growth.''

William was co-founder of LOVEFiLM.com and had various roles including Managing Director, President and COO from the company's inception in 2003 until 2008, by which time it had become Europe's largest online film rental service.  Prior to LOVEFiLM, William co-founded Fletcher Research in 1997, which became the UK's largest internet research firm and was subsequently acquired by the NASDAQ listed company, Forrester Research.  William is currently a non-executive director of Paddy Power and will resign his directorship upon joining the company. He is also Chairman of Graze.com and has served as a non-executive director of a number of high growth internet companies, including Zoopla and Secret Escapes.  He is a former strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company and a graduate of University College, Oxford.

Fin Goulding was CIO and Vice President of the Global Development Centre of Sabre Holdings Argentina, having previously been CTO of lastminute.com (Sabre's consumer internet business). Prior to Sabre, Fin was Senior Vice President of Technological Solutions at VISA in San Francisco and held a number of senior technology roles in companies such as First Data Europe, HSBC Bank and Nat West Bank in Europe.  

For reference:

Patrick Kennedy	Jack Massey
Chief Executive	Finance Director
Paddy Power plc	Paddy Power plc
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Billy Murphy / Ronan O'Keeffe	Jon Earl / Rob Greening
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