Management
Gigi Levy – Acting Managing Director of Dragonfish and CEO of 888 Holdings plc
Gigi has been Chief Executive Officer of the Group since January 2007, following six months as Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his appointment, Gigi worked for Amdocs, one of the world’s largest software providers and systems integrators in the telecoms market (NYSE: DOX), most recently as Division President managing Amdocs’ activity in Europe (except Eastern Europe), Central and Latin America. Before joining Amdocs, Gigi held several interim management and consulting roles with various companies in Israel and the UK. Gigi also headed Giltek, a telecommunication systems integrator, and Girit Telecommunications, an Israeli Information and Communications Technology systems integrator.
Stefan Hamann – Sales and Business Development Director
Stefan heads up the commercial sales team. Prior to joining Dragonfish, Stefan was Head of European Regions / European B2C at Paddy Power plc, where he was responsible for the development of their online and retail business across continental Europe, particularly in Germany and Spain. Stefan has also specialised in software investments for a Spanish Venture Capital fund called BtoBFactory, which focused on early-stage equity investments across Spain and Latin America. He was a founding member of the Iberian operations of Letsbuyit.com, a pan-European online e-commerce site and began his career as a Management Consultant at A.T.Kearney in Spain.
Michael Cheifitz – Consumer Marketing Director
Michael manages the consumer marketing team with responsibility for providing marketing services for partners, including affiliate management, online media buying, PPC, SEO, and offline advertising. Michael was co-founder and CEO of Prova-Solutions Inc., a firm developing innovative 3D content creative solutions for e-commerce and e-gaming applications. Prior to Prova, Michael was VP Business Development and Operations with Slyde-Technologies, negotiating major deals with the likes of Nikon, Samsung and Kodak. Michael also served an extended tenure with Elite Technology Research and Development Division of the Israeli Ministry of Defence.
Gavin Bisdee – Corporate Marketing Director
Gavin manages corporate marketing and communications. He brings over 20 years of marketing experience, of which 10 years has been involved in the online gaming industry, working across both B2C and B2B marketing environments. As Head of Marketing at Blue Square in 2000 he was at the forefront of this new industry, followed by the Marketing Director role at attheraces, the £310m joint venture between Sky, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure. More recently he has provided strategic consulting services to a number of clients and spent four years as Head of Marketing at industry veteran Microgaming before taking up the challenge to launch and expand Dragonfish’s unique offering into the B2B market.
Yaniv Schwartz – Vice President, Marketing Operations
Yaniv manages the Client Executive team, Product Customisation, Player Retention and VIP management, and is responsible for growing and maintaining partner accounts through analytical and operational services. Prior to this Yaniv spent six years working at 888.com in various technical and management positions, and played a key role in building the analytical capabilities of the group. It is these business analytical capabilities that are central to the successful performance of Dragonfish clients.
Marco Melai – Commercial Director
Marco is an innovative professional with significant experience across a number of diverse roles in sales and marketing. He has spent considerable time in the video game arena with major companies such as Virgin and Disney interactive where he has had pan-European responsibility for sales. More recently he has been involved in the online gaming market with companies such as Expekt and Best in Game. Marco has a deep knowledge and understanding of the new regulated markets in Italy, France and Belgium and is also a semi pro poker and back gammon player.
Sigal Blonder – Pre-Sales Manager
Sigal has over 15 years of experience in the Information Technology world specialising in software and more than 8 years experience as a system analyst across a wide variety of projects in complex environments. Having joined 888 in early 2007 as a senior analyst in the Technology division she has played a major role in several integration projects involving third party suppliers and joint ventures such as 888Sport. As Dragonfish Pre-Sales Manager, Sigal facilitates the right partner solution to ensure we leverage their assets and capabilities.
