london key people jeremy thompson hill matt davey owner nyx gaming group number of employees over 750 website www.openbet.com openbet is a sportsbook and gaming software company based in chiswick london in the united kingdom with offices in sydney australia and montreal canada . 1 it supplies bookmakers national lotteries and other government backed betting organisations in regulated markets . contents 1 products 2 history 3 awards and recognition 4 references products edit openbet develops front end and back office gaming products including management and reporting tools . its openbet platform is designed to allow users to bet and play in multiple languages and currencies across several products and platforms potentially including web mobile devices retail outlets call centres and interactive television with single sign on to a centralised openbet account . clients include ladbrokes william hill betfair 2 paddy power 3 sky betting and gaming 4 sportsbet.com.au france s paris mutuel urbain and canadian state lotteries bclc loto qu bec manitoba and atlantic lottery corporation . 5 history edit openbet technologies ltd was founded in 1996 under the name orbis technologies . in december 2000 the company was acquired by nds a news corporation company and a technology provider in digital television . orbis expanded in size under the leadership of chief executive david loveday the gaming industry s second longest serving ceo through natural growth and by the acquisition of nt media in september 2005 and then electracade in december 2008 . in 2010 orbis technology was renamed to openbet the name of its eponymous software betting platform . it also acquired alphameric solutions a software company supplying betting retail products which was renamed as the openbet retail division . in january 2011 openbet was sold by nds for 208m in a management buyout backed by private equity firm vitruvian partners . 2 in march 2013 david loveday stepped down with coo jeremy thompson hill taking over as ceo of openbet . 6 in april 2015 openbet acquired their greek branch from outsourcing partner athens technology center s.a. increasing the group s headcount by 25 % . 7 awards and recognition edit openbet was voted one of the best 100 companies to work for in the uk according to a sunday times survey in 2010 8 subscription required and later achieved a one star accreditation in 2015 . 9 in 2014 openbet was named sports betting supplier of the year at the egamingreview b2b awards for the fifth successive year . 10 references edit openbet contact page a b openbet in 208m management buy out . daily telegraph . 2011 01 13 . paddy power s sportsbet re launched in australian marketplace . casinoscamreport.com . 2011 08 08 . openbet renew sky bet deal . gambling insider . 2013 01 16 . openbet opens up in north america . igaming post . 2012 04 11 . thompson hill appointed openbet ceo . intergame . 2013 03 19 . retrieved 2013 04 23 . openbet grows global presence as it completes acquisition of previously outsourced greek operations from athens technology center s.a. . openbet . 2015 04 30 . retrieved 2015 05 19 . times top 100 companies 1 openbet collects egaming reviews sports betting supplier of the year award for 4th year running . openbet . 2013 06 10 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title openbet & oldid 723682880 categories software companies of the united kingdomgambling companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in londonhidden categories use dmy dates from may 2015use british english from may 2015pages containing links to subscription only content navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 june 2016 at 15 06 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view