Board of Directors

Roger started his career with Booz, Allen & Hamilton as an international management consultant and has over 30 years’ experience in the leisure and gaming industries. In 1973 Roger joined Ladbrokes (Hilton), where he held a number of senior positions in the bookmaking, casino, lottery and gaming machine divisions. In 1986 he joined Bass where his roles included managing director of BMLS and Coral Racing and executive chairman of Bass Leisure South Africa. He retired from Bass in 1998. Since then, he has held a number of other non-executive directorships, including chairman of Arena Leisure plc, senior non-executive director of Sportech plc as well as directorships with a number of substantial privately held companies in the property, technology, publishing and exhibitions sectors.

Mor was appointed as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer in May 2007. Prior to this he was the chief executive officer of one of the Group’s subsidiaries, Techplay Marketing Ltd which required him to oversee the Group’s licensee relationship management, product management for new licensees and the Group’s marketing activities. Prior to joining the Playtech Group, Mor worked for Oracle for over four years, initially as a development consultant and then as a product manager, which involved creating sales and consulting channels on behalf of Oracle Israel and Oracle Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before this, he worked in a variety of roles, including as an auditor and financial consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and a system analyst for Tadiran Electronic Systems Limited, an Israeli Company that designs electronic warfare systems.

David is a qualified chartered accountant and has significant banking and advisory experience having been a Director of corporate finance at Noble Grossart limited and non-executive Director of Noble &Co Limited. He has been a Director of many publicly listed companies including investment trusts over the past twenty years. Recent appointments have included non-executive director and then Chairman of Sportech plc, senior independent director of Edinburgh UK Tracker Trust plc and chairman of both AMZ Holdings plc and Asian Growth Properties Limited. In all cases he was Chairman of the audit committee. He previously served for eight years on the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Alan has over 30 years’ experience in the leisure industry. From 1973 to 1991, he occupied a number of positions at Whitbread, principally as managing director of Beefeater steakhouse and also the Whitbread restaurant division where he was responsible for the creation and development of the Beefeater, Travel Inn and TGI Friday brands. In 1991, he founded his own business which became Inn Business Group plc in 1995 and was subsequently acquired by Punch Taverns plc in 1999. He chaired Oriental Restaurant Group plc until its sale to Noble House in 2000 and has been chairman of The Restaurant Group plc since 2001. He is currently non-executive chairman of Charles Wells Limited and non-executive chairman of Luminar Plc.