Independent Director Since: 2025
Board Committees:

• Compliance

Mr. Hartnett contributes extensive experience scaling and guiding online sports betting, entertainment and gaming businesses to achieve sustained long-term growth. His expertise working with globally reaching brands, along with history of delivering enhanced shareholder value, bolsters the Board’s oversight of the Company’s growth initiatives.

Mr. Hartnett has an Economics Degree from the University College Dublin.

Key Skills and Expertise

• Strategic Planning / M&A: Acquired over a 20-year tenure in various leadership roles at an entertainment company, where he oversaw several successful strategic M&A initiatives, including the $770 million acquisition of FanDuel.


• Technology / Digital: As CEO of a Blackstone-backed betting and gaming business, Mr. Hartnett was responsible for implementing innovative, digitally-focused growth initiatives.


• Risk Management: Mr. Hartnett brings extensive gaming and entertainment company risk management expertise developed from his career leading operational teams in the highly regulated industry.

Career Highlights

• Superbet Group – Blackstone-backed betting and gaming company 
  • Chief Executive Officer (2019-2024)

• Paddy Power Betfair – Dublin-based gambling company, part of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT) 
  • Chief Development Officer (2018-2019) 
  • Managing Director, International (2016-2019), Online (2015-2016)
  • Chief Operating Officer (2014-2016), Sportsbet Australia, a Paddy Power affiliate company

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