Mangas' Beraud becomes new CEO; Parize joins board

MANGAS Gaming’s Isabelle Parize and Nicolas Béraud have both been promoted, with Béraud to replace Parize as Mangas chief executive.

France’s Mangas, owned jointly by Financière Lov and SBM, is the parent company of Bet-At-Home, Betclick, Expekt and Everest Poker, and entered the Power 50 leading operators for the first time last year.

Group chief executive Parize has been promoted to vice-chairwoman and has joined the board, where she will be responsible for its development and acquisition strategy, as well as regulatory issues and supervising the company’s ethics department.

BetClic-founder Béraud has been appointed group chief executive, a promotion from his role as Mangas chief operating officer and chief executive of Mangas-owned BetClic. Béraud replaced former Expekt chief executive Per Widerstrom in December.

Béraud (pictured), who plans to make Betclic one of Europe’s top five operators, will supervise all three companies in the new role, as well as Bet-at-home, which Mangas acquired with Expekt in March 2009, and Everest Gaming, which Mangas acquired in December.

Speaking to EGRmagazine.com in January, Béraud denied that Mangas will make job cuts at Betclic and Expekt, pledging to hire a further 100 staff.

Parize has been chief executive of Mangas Gaming since September 2007. Before that she was in charge of the perfumes division of healthcare, IT, manufacturing, transportation and veterinarian conglomerate Quest International, after serving as chief executive of TV company CanalSatellite.

Before that, she held roles as marketing director of Procter & Gamble.

Mangas hired 888 vice president for growth markets Tarquin Henderson in November 2009.

Former Expekt chief executive Per Widerström joined PartyGaming as chief operating officer in February.

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