Mr. Davey has over 25 years of experience within the digital media, sports, entertainment, leisure and gaming ecosystems, as well as the public sector. He is an experienced public company executive officer and board member across the gaming technology arena. Over the course of Mr. Davey’s career, he has overseen multiple mergers and acquisitions and has raised over $2.0 billion in debt and equity capital to support the companies he has led.
Mr. Davey was Chief Executive Officer of SG Digital, the Digital Division of Scientific Games Corp. (“Scientific Games”) (Nasdaq: SGMS). SG Digital was established following the purchase by Scientific Games of NYX Gaming Group Limited (“NYX”) (formerly TSXV:NYX) for $631m, where Mr. Davey served as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director. In 2014, Mr. Davey oversaw the initial public offering of NYX, and after the public offering, from 2014 to 2018, Mr. Davey oversaw seven acquisitions which helped establish NYX as the fastest growing global B2B real-money digital gaming and sports betting platforms. NYX was the leading B2B omni-channel sportsbook platform in the market and the supplier to over 300 gaming operators globally with an extensive library of desktop and mobile game titles, including more than 700 on NYX platforms and more than 2,000 on the OpenBet platform. These acquisitions, together with meaningful organic growth, increased NYX’s revenue from $24 million in 2014 to $184 million annualized in 2017 and a team of 1,000 employees. Mr. Davey was named 2018 CEO of the Year at the prestigious Global Gaming Awards.
Since leaving Scientific Games, Mr. Davey established Tekkorp Capital as one of the pre-eminent investors in the global digital ecosystem and is now its Chairman as well as Chief Investment Officer of the Tekkorp Capital Partners Fund 1. Mr. Davey is CEO of a NASDAQ Listed Special Purpose Acquisition Company, Tekkorp Digital Acquisition Corp., which comprises many gambling industry luminaries (www.tekkorpdigital.com).