Bragg Gaming nominates three new board members
The company has nominated Kent Young, Don Robertson and Ron Baryoseph to its board of directors.
Canada.- Bragg Gaming Group has nominated Kent Young, Don Robertson, and Ron Baryoseph to its board of directors. The new nominees will replace chair Paul Godfrey, Paul Pathak, and Rob Godfrey, who have opted not to stand for re-election to the board at the meeting.
Young has held senior executive positions with Bragg and other prominent companies, including Aristocrat Technologies in Australia and America and Aruze Gaming America. At Aristocrat, he held several roles including vice president of research and development and global general manager of marketing.
He has served on multiple industry boards including the Gaming Standards Association. An entrepreneur, Kent founded, built, and sold two gaming technology companies – True Blue Gaming and Spin Games.
Robertson has corporate finance, risk management and governance experience and is currently serving on the board of directors of Orillia Power Generation Corporation. He served as managing director and head of global M&A at Scotiabank from 2017 to 2022 and as chief executive officer in Canada and head of corporate finance, Americas at Standard Chartered Bank from 2012 to 2016 as well as managing director and head of Canadian M&A at Credit Suisse from 2006 to 2012.
Earlier in his career, Robertson served as a director at RBC Capital Markets from 1997 to 2006 and Articled at Blake, Cassels & Graydon from 1996 to 1997.
Baryoseph is president of RBY Gaming which has provided distribution, sales and consulting services to companies including Cammegh, Playtech, Inspired Gaming, Suzo Happ, Softweave, e Connect, Tangiamo, Apt Pay and others. Prior to opening RBY Gaming, Ron served as SVP of Amaya Gaming.
Director and chief executive officer of Bragg Yaniv Sherman said: “We are delighted to welcome Kent Young, Don Robertson, and Ron Baryoseph to the Board. We believe their collective gaming industry experience, relationships and expertise will provide a significant boost to our continued execution on our many B2B iGaming growth opportunities as we seek to deliver profitable revenue growth and increasing cash flow which will ultimately drive enhanced value for our shareholders. We are confident that the changes to the board announced today will help take our company to the next level.
“Paul Godfrey has served as the chair of the board since January 2021, and Paul Pathak and Rob Godfrey have dutifully served on the Board and various committees of the Board since 2019. The Company sincerely thanks Godfrey, Pathak, and Godfrey for their significant contributions and guidance to the company. During their time on the board, Bragg has transformed itself and become a global organization with a diverse platform of game development studios and leading technology.”
Bragg Gaming launches content with RSI in Pennsylvania
Bragg Gaming Group has launched its new content and technology with Rush Street Interactive (RSI) in Pennsylvania. The launch builds on the company’s Spin Games content that is already live in the state and introduces its proprietary Bragg Studios content.
Customers at both BetRivers.com and PlaySugarHouse.com can access content such as Fairy Dust by Atomic Slot Lab and content from the company’s Powered by Bragg program via its Remote Game Server (RGS) technology.
