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DraftKings Appoints Marie Donoghue as Chief Business and Growth Officer
DraftKings has appointed Marie Donoghue as its new chief business and growth officer.
Donoghue last served as Amazon’s vice president of global sports video. It was confirmed she was leaving the company earlier this month.
In her new role, Donoghue will play a key role in driving further growth for DraftKings as it explores new business opportunities. She will also be charged with spearheading various internal processes.
The decision to bring in Donoghue comes after DraftKings launched its 24/7 streaming network, DraftKings Network, on Samsung TV Plus last year as the company looks to branch out and expand its offering to customers. DraftKings now bills itself as a digital sports entertainment, gaming, and technology company.
Donoghue, who is one of the most influential women in sports media, brings considerable broadcast pedigree. During her stint at Amazon, Prime Video landed various high-profile sports broadcast rights, including the National Football League’s (NFL) Thursday Night Football in an 11-year, $1 billion-a-season deal.
Prior to Amazon, Donoghue spent more than 18 years at ESPN, becoming executive vice president of global business and content strategy.
“I am thrilled to be joining DraftKings during this exciting phase and have long admired the organisation’s steady rise as an industry innovator. This is a special opportunity to expand on its industry-leading position and propel the company to new heights,” said Donoghue.
“We are delighted to welcome Marie Donoghue to our executive team and the immense wealth of experience she brings as a highly-regarded leader and trailblazer within our industry. Marie’s exceptional track record speaks for itself, and she is poised to be a transformative force in our company’s future success,” Jason Robins, chief executive and co-founder of DraftKings, said.
Jackpocket founder Peter Sullivan is stepping back from his day-to-day role as senior vice president of lottery at DraftKings following the company’s acquisition by the operator.
Sullivan, the co-founder of the lottery game and ticket supplier, set the company up in 2013 and ultimately led it toward a $750m takeover by DraftKings in 2024.
DraftKings completed its acquisition of Jackpocket in 2024 and has made note of its continued influence on its earnings since then.
After spending two years integrating Jackpocket’s operations into DraftKings, Sullivan, who is moving into an advisory role, said he wants to spend more time with his family and explore new opportunities.
“After 13 incredible years building Jackpocket and helping bring it together with DraftKings, I’ve decided that the time has come for me to step away from my day-to-day operating role,” he said.
“What started in 2013 as an idea to modernise how people participate in the lottery became a journey beyond anything I could have imagined.
“Along the way, we built an amazing team, navigated countless challenges, expanded across the country, helped create millions of lottery winners, and ultimately joined forces with DraftKings to accelerate our vision on an even larger scale.
“I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve accomplished and deeply grateful to the employees, partners, investors, regulators, retailers and customers who believed in us along the way. Most importantly, I’m thankful for the teammates who dedicated years of their lives to building something special together.”
Advisory role for Sullivan
“As I transition into an advisory capacity, I’m excited to watch the next chapter unfold. I remain extremely bullish on the future of Lottery at DraftKings and the opportunity for its continued growth,” Sullivan added.
“Personally, I’m looking forward to spending more time with my family, pursuing new ventures and exploring other opportunities. While I’m excited for what’s ahead, I’ll always be proud of what we built and the impact we’ve made.”
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FIRST.bet has announced the appointment of Ian Bradley as its co-CEO. Bradley – most recently SVP at DraftKings, and a former colleague of Tom from SBTech – joins as a partner in the business alongside founder Tom Light, the two leading FIRST.bet together as the company enters its next phase of growth across LATAM, Europe and beyond.
Ian Bradley brings more than 20 years of sportsbook and trading heritage, beginning in spread betting and trading at Sporting Index and Sporting Solutions before joining SBTech – the sportsbook business whose technology became part of DraftKings through their 2020 merger. As SVP at DraftKings, he was a central figure in the company’s sportsbook success in the years that followed, with responsibility for all of its consumer sportsbook revenue.
FIRST.bet was itself founded by former SBTech leaders, making Ian Bradley’s appointment a return to the sportsbook roots where he built his career.
Bradley joins not simply as a senior executive but as a partner in the business alongside Tom Light, the two sharing ownership of FIRST.bet’s strategy and direction as co-CEOs. Having first worked together at SBTech, they combine Tom’s vision and product leadership as founder with Ian’s track record in scaling sportsbook businesses, jointly driving growth across product, technology and trading as the company expands across its core markets.
“Ian is one of the most respected leaders in our industry, and I worked alongside him at SBTech, so I’ve seen first-hand what he builds. I’ve wanted him alongside me at FIRST.bet for some time – that he’s only now free to join tells you how highly DraftKings valued him. Asking Ian to run the business with me as co-CEO is the clearest statement of intent we could make: FIRST.bet is building the platform serious operators choose, and together we’ll get there faster,” said Tom Light, Founder and co-CEO of FIRST.bet
“FIRST.bet has built something rare – a world-class team and genuinely Tier-1 technology, with the trading depth and product to back it. I wanted to work alongside a team like this and help build on the success they’ve already created. Running the company alongside Tom as co-CEO is exactly the challenge I wanted next, and the opportunity in B2B right now – across LATAM, Europe and beyond – is enormous,” said Ian Bradley, Co-CEO of FIRST.bet.
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DraftKings has renewed a multi-year agreement with GeoComply to continue providing real-time geolocation and compliance services, the companies said.
The extension comes after DraftKings’ Super App launch, a unified platform approach that lets customers access either sportsbook or sports predictions depending on their location. The press release positions the renewal as supporting scale, fraud controls, geolocation and compliance requirements tied to that rollout.
GeoComply said its geolocation signals are embedded into DraftKings’ internal risk workflows, including step-up authentication and automated decisioning. The vendor said it processes 2.5 billion checks a month across its platform.
Under the extended agreement, the companies said GeoComply will continue to support DraftKings with dedicated forward-deployed engineering support.
“The operators winning this next cycle are treating geolocation intelligence as critical trust infrastructure,” said Kip Levin, CEO of GeoComply. “DraftKings has done that for years. This extension reflects how seriously they take the architecture behind player trust—and it’s what lets them keep moving fast on everything else.”
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