Thomas Winter

Thomas Winter

Thomas Winter is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Winter most recently served as the General Manager of North America iGaming at DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) from May 2022 to September 2023. Before that, he founded Golden Nugget Online Gaming, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNOG), an online casino and sports betting operator, in September 2013 and served as its President from December 29, 2020 until it was acquired by DraftKings Inc. in May 2022. Between 2013 and 2020, Mr. Winter had served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the online gaming division of Landry’s LLC, an entertainment, hospitality and gaming conglomerate and Golden Nugget Online Gaming’s former indirect parent. Prior to 2013, Mr. Winter served in various senior and advisory roles in the gaming industry, including as Chief Operating Officer, then as Chief Executive Officer, of Betclic, a major European online sports betting and gaming operator from 2008 to 2011, and Chief Operating Officer of Expekt.com in 2009, a sister company of Betclic and a pioneer brand in the online gaming industry. Mr. Winter was a non-executive director for Metro Play, the online gaming arm of the Daily Mail Group Media, from 2012 until its sale in 2014, a non-executive director for Groupe Paris Turf, the leading horse racing media group in France, in 2013, and an advisory board member then a board observer for Superbet, one of the largest online gaming operators in Central and Eastern Europe, between 2018 and 2022. In October 2024, Mr. Winter was appointed as a board member and senior advisor of Awager, an innovative iGaming live streaming technology provider backed by Oaktree Capital Management. Mr. Winter holds a Master in Management - Grande Ecole from ESSEC business school in Paris.