Gfinity plc appoints Rebekah Billingsley as Managing Director of GDM (Gfinity Digital Media)
Gfinity is pleased to announce the appointment of the new Managing Director of its Digital Media division, GDM.
Rebekah Billingsley is currently Global Marketing Director at Ecco Shoes. She previously held senior marketing, digital, content & business development roles at prominent businesses, including: Cedar Communications; John Brown Publishing; BBC Worldwide; EMAP; and Hachette (where she oversaw Digital Spy).
Gfinity Digital Media continues to grow its portfolio of specialist gaming, e-sports and entertainment titles. The success of its popular brands, including Epicstream, Gfinity Esports, and RacingGames, is the ideal foundation for the fast-growing network, which now reaches almost 20 million unique users every month.
Rebekah will join GDM at the beginning of October. She will not be classified as a PDMR.
Hugo Drayton, non-executive director at Gfinity plc and interim MD at GDM, commented: "Rebekah brings huge business experience and digital publishing knowledge to GDM. We are delighted that she has agreed to join our ambitious company, to steer our Digital Media division through its next period of growth. We have assembled a young, dynamic team, which will now benefit from Rebekah's leadership and experience.
Rebekah Billingsley added: "This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing media business in a vibrant sector. I look forward to collaborating with the talented, ambitious team across GDM's titles as we approach the next phase of growth."
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Gfinity is a leading media and technology company in the fast growing esports and gaming sector.
Founded in late 2012, Gfinity established itself as esports and community engagement experts. More recently, the company's business model has evolved to reflect the rapidly developing gaming market, sharpening its strategic focus, based on 3 distinct areas:
Gfinity Digital Media is made up of 8 sites that reach more than 16 million monthly unique active users, and delivers 75 million impressions per month across its social network of over 7,000,000 followers.
The Gfinity Engagement Platform (Athlos) is a fully configurable, white-label, bespoke solution, designed to maximise community engagement through competitive play, and is already trusted by some of the world's biggest gaming and esports organisations.
Our JVs and Partnerships - Esports Solutions - allow the Company to benefit from co-owned ideas, working with partners who value and benefit from Gfinity's expertise, to create products such as the Global Racing Series with Abu Dhabi Motorsport Management, and esports activities for Manchester United FC, and Formula 1.
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