Sporting Index promotes Simon Trim

Wednesday October 12, 2011 : Exec takes driving seat of division that he helped create
 
Sporting Index has announced the promotion of its trading director Simon Trim to the position of managing director of the Group’s B2B trading services division Sporting Solutions.
 
Trim was instrumental in implementing the original Sporting Solutions concept and has played an integral part in taking the product offering forward.
 
The B2B division provides trading and pricing services to the betting and gaming industry, enabling bookmakers to outsource their in-play betting on twenty-two sports and currently supplies ten sportsbooks, including William Hill, ToteSport, Skybet, Centrebet, Blue Square and Party Gaming. Sporting Index was Sporting Solutions’ first customer.
 
Warren Murphy, CEO, Sporting Index Group, comments: “Simon has led our trading team with distinction for five years and has been a key member of the team behind the early success of Sporting Solutions. The rapid growth of our B2B business has been driven by our unique pairing of sports trading expertise with technology and no-one is better placed to take the business forward than Simon.”
 
Simon Trim, managing director, Sporting Solutions, said: ““My goal is to establish Sporting Solutions as the pre-eminent B2B supplier of choice.  With the developments we have coming over the next few months I’m confident that our partners will receive a coverage of markets, quality of pricing and margin generation that is unsurpassed elsewhere.”