888 Holdings plc (888) Q2 2023 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us today for 888-2023 interim results presentation. I'm John Mendelsohn, and alongside me are Yariv Duffner, the group chief financial officer, and Vaughan Lewis, the chief strategy officer. So this morning on slide two, you can see the agenda for today's presentation. I'll be providing an overview of key developments during the first half before handing over to Yariv and Vaughan to take you through our financial and strategic progress in more detail. We will then provide the opportunity to take your questions. Slide four reaffirms our key priorities as a board against which we have made good progress in all key areas in the four months since our full year results and Q1 update. Firstly, I was delighted to announce the appointment of Per Widerstrom as Chief Executive Officer a few weeks ago. The Board ran a very thorough search process and we had a wide range of very strong candidates, given the quality of the business and our assets. Per was a clear standout candidate for the Board. He is an inspiring and proven leader with extensive industry experience, including in public companies. Per also has a very strong track record of executing value creation plans in omnichannel global betting and gaming businesses. In addition to this strong track record and experience, his high energy approach to building a strong and progressive work culture means we are even more excited about the future. And I look forward to him starting in two months, at which point I will revert to the role of non-executive chair. In the meantime, I have been and will continue to be spending a lot of time with him in preparation to hand over. And this is reinforcing my conviction that he will be a great success in this critical role as we build the bus...