Bwin.Party Appoints Jeffrey Haas as Group Director of Poker
This was published 09-08-2013Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, the giant online gambling entity, has announced that it will be launching the group’s entirely new poker product within the next few weeks and has appointed Jeffrey Haas as its new Group Director of Poker.
Jeffrey Haas will be replacing Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment’s current Director of Poker, Chris Welch and will initially work alongside him in order to oversee the first month of the implementation of the new poker software until ChrisWelch leaves Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment at the end of September, 2013.
Chris Welch joined Party Gaming from Centrebet during 2009 when he acted as Chief Marketing Officer, continuing in this capacity after Party Gaming merged with Bwin in 2001 and the group became known as Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. Although Welch announced that he would be leaving Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment in February of this year, he has agreed to remain with the group long enough for him to oversee the launch of the new poker product.
John Shepherd, the Director of Corporate Communications at Bwin.Party, revealed that they are very pleased to have secured Jeffrey’s services to head up poker. Shepherd added that Jeffrey is a prominent and experienced professional who knows the ins and outs of poker very well.
Jeffrey Haas was recruited from The Rational Group where he served as Director of Strategy & Business Development, New Platforms. According to his profile Jeffrey’s role at the Rational Group was to lead their efforts to establish, manage and grow commercial activities with key platform partners that included Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, TelCos.
Haas also previously worked for Bwin inSwedenduring 2005 and 2006 as Director of Product Management of the Ongame Poker Network that was at the time owned by Bwin. He then went on to become president of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour before serving as Managing Director of Poker Stars Live.
Bwin.Party Poker is presently in beta testing.
