Experience

From trading floor to product leadership — a decade building at the intersection of sports betting and product.

Kaizen Gaming (Betano / Stoiximan)

Jun 2026 — Present

Defined and drove product strategy across key sportsbook verticals including Live Betting, Player Props, Bet Builder, and GenAI-powered experiences
Built and scaled the sportsbook product function by hiring and developing a team of Product Analysts and Product Owners, establishing ways of working and career growth frameworks
Introduced frameworks across sportsbook squads

Kaizen Gaming (Betano / Stoiximan)

Mar 2024 — Jun 2026

Defined and drove product strategy across key sportsbook verticals including Live Betting, Player Props, Bet Builder, and GenAI-powered experiences
Built and scaled the sportsbook product function by hiring and developing a team of Product Analysts and Product Owners, establishing ways of working and career growth frameworks
Introduced frameworks across sportsbook squads

Kaizen Gaming (Betano / Stoiximan)

Mar 2022 — Mar 2024

Owned the end-to-end product roadmap for Live Betting, one of the highest-revenue and most technically complex areas of the sportsbook
Drove feature discovery, prioritisation, and delivery working closely with engineering, trading, and UX — from bet placement flows to in-play market display and settlement logic
Defined success metrics for live betting features and ran structured A/B experiments to iterate on conversion, engagement, and error rate improvements
Mentored Product Owners and contributed to the growth of product craft within the sportsbook tribe

Kaizen Gaming (Betano / Stoiximan)

Apr 2021 — Sep 2022

Primary business stakeholder for sportsbook scrum teams, owning prioritisation of the product roadmap and ensuring delivery aligned with commercial and strategic objectives
Operated effectively in a matrixed structure without formal PO reporting lines, influencing product direction through stakeholder credibility and deep sportsbook domain expertise
Defined and ranked product initiatives across the sportsbook backlog, balancing short-term business needs with long-term product vision

Stoiximan.gr

Apr 2018 — Apr 2021

Owned celebratory mini-sites for Euro and FIFA World Cup — high-traffic, time-critical experiences serving millions of users
Led end-to-end development of Missions, a loyalty and engagement feature designed to increase player retention
Built and shipped the ACCA Builder (accumulator bet creation tool), balancing player UX with risk management
Managed third-party integrations with odds feed providers including LS Sports, DST, and Abelson

Stoiximan.gr

Aug 2017 — Apr 2018

Established an innovation backlog capturing opportunities beyond industry-standard sportsbook features
Conducted competitive benchmarking across global operators to identify white-space opportunities
Collaborated with design and product leadership to evaluate and prototype non-conventional ideas

Stoiximan.gr

Jan 2015 — Aug 2017

Led shift operations for the trading floor, overseeing real-time risk management across live and pre-event markets
Trained and onboarded new traders across sports pricing, in-play risk protocols, and internal tooling
Acted as senior point of escalation during high-profile events, making real-time decisions on market suspension and liability limits

Stoiximan.gr

Jan 2014 — Jan 2015

Managed live in-play trading for premium events including UEFA Champions League Final and FIFA World Cup
Priced pre-event markets across football and key sports, balancing competitive odds with risk exposure targets

Stoiximan.gr

Jun 2013 — Jan 2014

Traded live matches and priced pre-event markets across a broad sports portfolio
Built foundational expertise in odds compilation, market mechanics, and real-time risk assessment

Education

Executive MBA

Bachelor, Computer Science

Erasmus, Computer Science