{"id":90672,"date":"2020-12-01T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/online-betting-entertainment-and-technology-company-appoints-dennis-drazin-to-board-of-directors-2\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T07:49:00","slug":"online-betting-entertainment-and-technology-company-appoints-dennis-drazin-to-board-of-directors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/online-betting-entertainment-and-technology-company-appoints-dennis-drazin-to-board-of-directors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Betting Entertainment and Technology Company Appoints Dennis Drazin to Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-person\">Dennis Drazin<\/span> joins PlayUp Global Board<\/b> <\/li>\n<li><b>2019 Sports Betting Hall of Famer <\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Further Strengthens PlayUp US team<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SYDNEY<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 1, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; PlayUp is pleased to announce that Industry Legend and Hall of Famer <span class=\"xn-person\">Dennis Drazin<\/span> has joined the PlayUp Board.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Drazin was recently appointed to the Board and will work directly with PlayUp CEO-<span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> Dr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Laila Mintas<\/span>. Together they will help drive the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> business and support the company with its global growth strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Drazin is the Chairman and CEO of Darby Development LLC, the operator of the largest Racetrack in <span class=\"xn-location\">New Jersey<\/span> (<span class=\"xn-person\">Monmouth Park<\/span>). The track made history when it took the first legal sports wager by Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Phil Murphy<\/span> on <span class=\"xn-chron\">14 June 2018<\/span>. For decades, he has been an advisor to the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen&#8217;s Association and became Chairman of the New Jersey Racing Commission in 2009. &#160;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Drazin also masterminded the repeal of PASPA which led to the legalization of sports betting across the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span>. For his personal achievements, he was inducted into the Sports Betting Hall of Fame in 2019. He is principal of law firm Drazin and Warshaw, a well-recognized global expert and a leading voice in the racing and gambling industry.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Drazin said: &#034;I am very excited to join PlayUp and look forward to utilizing my many years of experience and industry leadership to develop and expand PlayUp&#8217;s extensive strategy as they look to grow their <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> and Global presence in online betting.&#034; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Daniel Simic<\/span>, Global CEO of PlayUp, said, &#034;Dennis is a well-recognized figure in the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> Betting industry and will add enormous experience to our Board. I look forward to working with him and Laila as we expand our global footprint.&#034;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Simic also added, &#034;Significant progress has been made to introduce fixed-odds horse racing in the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> and what better person to have on our board than the man helping to currently oversee the pilot program.&#034;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mintas added, &#034;I have known Dennis for many years and I am very delighted to have him joining PlayUp&#180;s Board of Directors. He has an unmatched level of experience and knowledge in the key areas of our business and I look forward to working closely with him as we continue to grow our presence in the US and globally.&#034;<\/p>\n<p><b>About PlayUp <\/b><\/p>\n<p>PlayUp is a Premium Betting Entertainment and Technology Group that enriches the lives of people through entertaining, rewarding and responsible online betting. We develop innovative and great online betting technologies in-house to power our brand and deliver world-class user&#160;experiences. Our energies are focused on fulfilling the needs of dedicated and passionate users who seek a deeper connection to the games they play.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we successfully operate and power a highly scalable and robust, cloud-based online betting platform that is innovative and unifies the world&#8217;s favourite betting products including Fixed Odds Sports Betting, Fixed-Odds Racing (Horses and Greyhounds), Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) and Esports. Additionally, we also host <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia&#8217;s<\/span> largest and indeed some of the globe&#8217;s largest prize pools in DFS, a competitive format of peer-to-peer betting.<\/p>\n<p>We hold betting licences in multiple jurisdictions and currently operate in <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">India<\/span>. <span class=\"xn-location\">Australia<\/span> is currently our biggest market, where we are the largest and most recognised DFS provider in the country and one of the fastest growing fixed-odds providers. In the <span class=\"xn-location\">USA<\/span>, we have secured licensing and access to the nascent online sports betting market with imminent launch into multiple states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Drazin joins PlayUp Global Board 2019 Sports Betting Hall of Famer Further Strengthens PlayUp US team SYDNEY, Dec. 1,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.fnarena.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}