Superbet builds new trading team with six Ladbrokes hires
Leo Gaspar and five of his colleagues from Ladbrokes’ international trading department join Romanian operator in its Zagreb-based office
Superbet has hired six former Ladbrokes traders to join the operator’s recently launched international and Central European trading team in Croatia, EGR Intel can reveal.
The new trading team, which joined Superbet’s Zagreb office on 1 September, includes Leo Gaspar who previously worked in various senior trading roles at Ladbrokes for more than 10 years.
Gaspar was most recently product manager – international trading at the UK bookmaker under trading director Andy Wright, and has since taken the role of product manager – live betting at Superbet.
Gaspar and the rest of the new team left Ladbrokes following the merger and the subsequent cuts to the combined firm’s trading team.
Superbets newly-blostered digital trading division will cover all international online trading operations and will work closely with Jon Hewlett, formerly of bwin.party, and his Gibraltar-based team.
Retail trading will remain under the stewardship of Branko Savicevic.
“The new hires are internationally experienced, with a high level of territorial and cultural awareness,” Sacha Dragic, Superbet CEO, told EGR Intel. “We see them as the perfect fit to be a link between Leeds, Gibraltar, and Bucharest and we are sure that with their experience in digital they will create a first class trading product.”
Dragic added: “Leo has led multifunctional teams across the world, both remote and office-based.”
“Being very technology-oriented allowed him to develop innovative profit-generating sales and execute product development.”
The addition of a new trading team is the latest in a string of high-profile appointments made by Superbet in the last few months, most recently former Hattrick Sports Group executive Sebastian Boer.
Other hires also include former William Hill execs Jamie Hart, Finbarr Joy and Peter Morgan.
In June, EGR Intel also revealed Superbet’s plans to launch a major recruitment drive in Gibraltar over the next 18 months in line with its plans to expand its international business under a new licence.