EDITOR’S LETTER

COO, EDITOR IN CHIEF

Julian Perry

EDITOR

Tim Poole

Tim.Poole@gamblinginsider.com

STAFF WRITERS

Matthew Nicholson

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Lucy Wynne

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Robert Prendergast

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LEAD DESIGNER

Brendan Morrell

DESIGNERS

Olesya Adamska, Christian Quiling

DESIGN ASSISTANTS

The role of the CFO is integral to any large organisation. That is as applicable in gaming as it is in ecommerce, healthcare or finance. But, perfectly naturally, a company's CFO can get a little bit less of the limelight than its CEO. We ourselves at Gambling Insider hold an annual CEO Special issue of our magazine. And yet it is often a company CFO that can help make or break that quarterly report for an operator, supplier or affiliate.

This is one of several reasons we have, in this edition, decided to shine a spotlight on the CFO, with our cover feature (starting on page 38) decidated to the position. As part of this feature, we interviewed FanDuel CFO David Jennings, Bragg Gaming CFO Ronan Kannor, Better Collective CFO Flemming Pedersen and EveryMatrix CFO Gonzalo de Osma, who all provided a variety of opinions on the role itself and how best to approach it. Although there was an array of different thoughts, one theme all four CFOs agreed on, rather unanimously, was the need for interdepartmental teamwork – not just within the finance team itself.

Elsewhere in this issue, we include our staple stats and data features, of which some figures really jump out – like just how big the Japanese sports betting and horseracing market is (page 20).

Sticking with an Asia-Paci c theme, we have a write-up of Marcus Lim's GI Huddle on page 28, where he compares the likes of Singapore, Macau and Australia. And, from page 30, we bring you the winners of the Global Gaming Awards Asia-Paci c 2023.

On page 82, the new Venue Director of the Victoria Casino in London, Peter Turpin, speaks exclusively to Gambling Insider for the Final Word in the July/August issue, while our regular Roundtable feature focuses specifically on sports betting, and we ask suppliers whether the market is currently geared more towards self-production or aggregation in our Big Question feature.

For those of you at iGB Live, we hope you enjoy the show and we hope you enjoy reading this magazine – of which there will be numerous copies at that event. It's been a busy summer for gaming but long may it continue. We're not done yet.

TP, Editor