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Maria Redin
President & Chief Executive Officer

Maria was appointed as Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. She previously served as Chief Financial Officer from December 2015 (and acting Chief Financial Officer from June to November 2015). She has also held a number of senior positions at MTG, including Head of Group Finance and Group Controller.

Her roles in the Group have included the positions of CFO, and later CEO, of MTG’s former gaming entertainment company Bet24, as well as a number of financial positions, and she started her career at MTG as a management trainee in 2004. ...Read moreMaria is a Member of the Board of Directors at Kinnevik and Vinted. She has previously been a Member of the Board of Directors at NetEnt and Hemnet. She holds a Master’s degree in International Business from the University of Gothenburg.

Nick Hopkins
Chief Financial Officer

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Arnd Benninghoff
EVP Gaming

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Arnd joined MTG in November 2014 and has led MTG’s strategic investments in esports and gaming. Following the sale of ESL Gaming in May 2022, Arnd is fully focused on accelerating MTG’s evolution as a global gaming village and an acceleration platform for gaming companies.

Before he joined MTG, Arnd served as Chief Digital Officer for Digital & Adjacent at ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, and as Managing Director of SevenVentures, the group’s venture arm. Arnd has also been CEO of Holtzbrinck eLAB, the incubator of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, founded and built fifteen companies, and held various management roles at Tomorrow Focus AG.

He started his career as a journalist, working for Deutsche Presse Agentur and TV networks. Arnd was previously a member of the Board of Directors of Edgeware AB. He is a graduate (“Diplom-Kaufmann”) in Business and Administration from the University of Münster.

Simon Hahn
Group General Counsel

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Simon was appointed MTG Group General Counsel in May 2023 after serving for 6 years at MTG, including during the last years as Head of Legal – M&A and Corporate Legal Affairs of the MTG Group. He joined MTG in May 2017, prior to which he worked for 4 years in private practice at law firms Ashurst and Hamilton. He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) from Lund University.

Hendrik Klindworth
CEO & Founder of InnoGames

German, born 1983

Hendrik is CEO of InnoGames, which he co-founded in 2007. Hendrik studied IT, with a focus on software engineering and information systems, at the University of Oldenburg.

Oliver Bulloss
Interim Co-CEO of Hutch

Peter Hansen-Chambers
Co-CEO and CFO of Hutch

Scott Walker
CEO of Ninja Kiwi

With almost 30 years in game development, Scott joined Chris and Stephen at Ninja Kiwi in 2010 and together scaled the company to establish and hold Bloons TD’s position as a global leader in the tower defense category. Prior to Ninja Kiwi, Scott held design, production, and executive positions at Atari, Activision, and Electronic Arts. He holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees, in English and in Feminist Studies, and a Masters degree in Education, all from Stanford University.

Siddharth Jain
CEO and Co-Founder of PlaySimple

Siddharth Jain is CEO and co-founder of PlaySimple, which he founded in 2014 alongside fellow co-founders Siddhanth Jain, Suraj Nalin and Preeti Reddy. Since then, Siddharth has led PlaySimple to become one of India’s most exciting and fastest-growing mobile gaming companies, and a global leader in the free-to-play mobile word games market. Siddharth previously led product management at Zynga, and has an MBA from the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai.

Alexander Ekvall
CEO and Co-Founder of Snowprint

Alexander is the CEO and Co-Founder of Snowprint where he works with the teams in Stockholm and Berlin to create rich gaming experiences through a new take on the mobile mid-core games category.

Dedicating his entire career to his passion, Alexander is a three-time games entrepreneur. Prior to Snowprint, he co-founded Fabrication Games, which was acquired by King, where he continued as Director of Product and oversaw the development of Candy Crush Saga for mobile – playing a significant role in growing the company and its player-base to where it is today. Alexander has also been an active angel investor and advisor in the gaming space.

Schraga Mor
CEO of Plarium

Simon Duffy
Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board

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Simon was Executive Chairman of Tradus plc until the company’s sale in March 2008. Simon was also Executive Vice-Chairman of ntl:Telewest until 2007, having joined ntl in 2003 as CEO. Simon has also served as CFO of Orange SA, CEO of wireless data specialist End2End AS, CEO and Deputy Chairman of WorldOnline International BV, and held senior positions at EMI Group plc and Guinness plc. Simon has also served as Chairman of the Board of Bwin.party digital entertainment plc and Mblox Inc. as well as Board Member of Millicom International Cellular and Avito AB....Read more

Simon is currently a Chairman of the Board of Directors of Telit Communications Plc and YouView TV Ltd and Chairman of the Board of Governors of Manchester Metropolitan University as well as Board Member of Wizz Air Holdings Plc, Nordic Entertainment Group and Oger Telecom Limited. Simon is a Master’s graduate of the University of Oxford and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Member of the Remuneration Committee.

Independent of the Company and management and independent of the major shareholders.

Gerhard Florin
Non-Executive Director

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Gerhard has spent over 20 years in the entertainment and gaming industry. Gerhard has previously served on the Boards of Codemasters plc, Funcom, Kobojo and King Digital Entertainment, and was Chairman of the latter between 2014 and 2016. Between 2006 and 2010, Gerhard served as an Executive Vice President and General Manager of Publishing at Electronic Arts, being responsible for the company’s worldwide publishing business, prior to which he held various positions in Electronic Arts’ German and British operations. ...Read moreBefore joining Electronic Arts, Gerhard worked at Bertelsmann Music Group and McKinsey.

Gerhard is currently a member of the Board of MTG’s subsidiary InnoGames. Gerhard holds Masters and PhD degrees in Macro Economics from the University of Augsburg in Germany.

Chairman of the Remuneration Committee.

Independent of the Company and management, and independent of major shareholders.

Liia Nõu
Non-Executive Director

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Liia Nõu currently serves as CEO of Pandox, a leading owner of hotel properties listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. She is since Q4 2022 a co-opted Board member of MTG. Prior to assuming the role as CEO of Pandox in 2021, Liia was the group CFO, since joining the company in 2007 from leading positions as CFO at GE Money Bank Nordics & Baltics, a worldwide financial services and banking group, from 2002 to 2007, CFO at Song Networks, a supplier of IP-based communications solutions to the Nordic business customers, from 2000 to 2002 , CFO at Icon Medialab, an online consulting business, from 1997 to 1999, CFO at Tele2 from 1995 to 1997 and finance manager and treasurer at Q8 from 1988 to 1995.
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Liia holds an MSc from Stockholm School of Economics.

Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Independent of the Company and management and independent of the major shareholders.

Anna Zeiter
Non-Executive Director

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Anna Zeiter is currently global Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President of Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility at eBay, and a Board member of eBay Marketplaces. She is also member of the Global AI Governance Advisory Board and the Privacy & Security Advisory Board of Flo Health Inc. (the global leading female health tracking app). Anna has previously served as Board member of the world’s largest Privacy organization, the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Before joining eBay in 2014, Anna had been working as a lawyer for two international law firms in Germany.
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Anna has a Ph.D. in the field of Human Rights from the University of Hamburg. She also holds a master’s degree in Law, Science & Technology from Stanford Law School, a Board Certificate from Harvard Business School, and an AI Certificate from Harvard Kennedy School.

Member of the Audit Committee.

Independent of the company and management, not independent of major shareholders.

Chris Carvalho
Non-Executive Director

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Chris Carvalho has vast experience as a board member and advisor of several gaming and start-up companies. Chris spent four years between 2010-2013 as Chief Operating Officer at Kabam and ten years at Lucasfilm where he headed up business development, and eventually ran the company’s internet division, StarWars.com. Chris has also been a board member in G5 Entertainment, the worldwide developer and publisher of free-to-play mobile games listed on Nasdaq Stockholm....Read more

Chris is currently a Board member of Roblox and Rogue Games and an advisor to Chalk, Specifio, MTGx gaming and 4D Sight. Chris holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Member of the Audit Committee.

Independent of the Company and management and independent of the major shareholders.

Dylan Collins
Non-Executive Director

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Dylan Collins is a serial entrepreneur in the digital media and gaming sector. He is currently a partner in LFG Holdings and Chair of Levellr, the leading Discord engagement platform. Previously he has served as a hands-on Chair of the board of digital marketing agency Potato (acquired by WPP) and youth media adtech firm TotallyAwesome and also as a non-executive director of Brown Bag Films, the wellknown animation studio. Dylan previously founded SuperAwesome, the leading kids digital engagement platform (acquired by Epic Games), Jolt (a social games developer and publisher acquired by GameStop) and Demonware (the multiplayer middleware company acquired by Activision Blizzard). He is an active investor across the gaming and digital media sector, focused specifically on youth audiences.
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Dylan holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from Trinity College Dublin.

Member of the Remuneration Committee.

Independent of the company and management, and independent of major shareholders.

Florian Schuhbauer
Non-Executive Director

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Florian Schuhbauer is Co-CIO and a Founding Partner of AOC. Florian started his career at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson with positions in risk management and equity research. He then co-founded Newtron AG, a software company that optimized strategic purchasing processes. Following the sale of Newtron, he became CFO and Executive Vice President of DHL Global Mail in the US, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG. ...Read more After leaving DHL he joined General Capital Group / Active Value Investors where he focused on deploying a Private Equity approach on public companies, and later joined Triton Partners where he built up the Public Equity practice before founding AOC. Throughout his career Florian has had extensive board experience and currently serves as the deputy Chairman of the board of Vita 34 AG, and a member of the board of NFON AG and PNE AG.

Florian graduated from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management with a Master in Finance and Business Administration.

Member of the Audit Committee.

Independent of the Company and management, not independent of the major shareholders.

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