Key Senior Managers Named at Paddy Power

Promotions to top-ranking positions in Paddy Power’s management target improving products and wooing customers for 2015.

Paddy Power gears up to face the New Year that promises huge market potential but which is also filled with powerful rivals among online sportsbooks in the EU. It has revealed the names of three of their new executives to fill key posts.

On the heels of Andy McCue appointment to the post of chief executive of the Irish gaming company, three more key positions have been filled. McCue was quoted as being pleased that the positions were being filled by ‘high-calibre individuals with a proven track record of success in the group’.

Peter O’Donovan has been delegated to the post of chief product officer. Johnny Hartnett has been appointed as managing director of Paddy Power's online business and last but not least Christian Woolfenden is now the new managing director of Paddy Power’s UK and Ireland retail business.

O’Donovan will be the head of a project overseeing a newly-created product function, combining teams who manage technology and enhance products in Paddy Power and Cayetano, situated in Bulgaria. On top of that, and within the parameters of EU gambling laws, he will ensure the harmonization of global product innovations. Sportsbet, its Australian subsidiary, will report, at some level, to him.

Hartnett will leave his post as director of operations at the bookmaker and will be responsible for managing several websites including ‘Paddypower.com’ and the ‘Dial-a-Bet’ and customer operations services. All three posts, along with that of McCue’s, will be taken up as of January 1, 2015.