Sky Betting & Gambling Chief Executive Richard Flint Continues to Be recognized as UK’s Greatest CEO of 2018 in Glassdoor’s sixth annual Employees Choice Awards. Mr. Flint has been at the company’s helm for almost two decades.
Glassdoor’s record shows that the Sky Bet executive has nipped past Microsoft boss Satya Nadella and Capital One’s Richard D. Fairbank. This year’s top 5 position also includes Marc Benioff from Salesforce and Tim Kidd from Kantar Worldpanel.
Broadly speaking, the Very Best CEOs listing, presented by job search and testimonials site Glassdoor, relies on testimonials and feedback from current and former employees of one company or another. To be eligible, a given company has to be applying at least 1,000 people. Sky Bet, one of UK’s largest online gambling companies, now employs around 1,200 people.
Some of the remarks from Sky Bet staff regarding the company’s leading executive and management staff pointed that managers were “approachable” and that there was clarity about the way the business was doing.
As stated previously, Mr. Flint assumed the CEO post at the major gambling company almost twenty decades back. Sky Bet has over the years developed into the operator with the largest active UK online player base. Most recently, the company has revealed that it generates 80% of its earnings from mobile gaming , a sign that it is one of the first successful adopters of what is expected to become a top growth driver within the global gambling industry.
Commenting on his position as a leader, Mr. Flint said in an interview with Quartz on the job that, contrary to what many think, a boss and a leader does not always have all of the answers and is not always “the smartest person in the room”. Of his approach to leadership, the executive stated that he fosters a “supportive and collaborative” work environment which revolves around “empathy, humility, and honesty”.
Sky Bet had previously focused its focus solely on its own domestic UK market. On the other hand, the company announced last year that it might seem to enlarge across other major markets, with the first two of these being Italy and Germany.
That strategy was later on put on hold as Canadian gambling giant The Stars Group, proprietor operator PokerStars, declared that it was purchasing Sky Bet in a deal valued at around $4.7 billion that could result in the creation of earth ’s largest listed online gambling company.
The transaction is expected to be completed in the next quarter of this year, subject to acceptance from gambling authorities, NASDAQ, and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Being part of this Stars Group provides Sky Bet access to a number of new markets to provide its geographical growth strategy in.
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