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Interview with Michael Tobin CEO - Continent 8
Michael is co-founder of Continent 8 Technologies PLC and the creator of the “Continent 8” brand. He is a Certified Public Accountant by profession and an entrepreneur by nature. He is a former Director of Empire State Development, the lead economic development agency for New York State.
Michael is a graduate of Montreal’s McGill University
The last 12 months has seen many new products and enhancements brought to market by Continent 8. Can you outline some of these and any plans for the next year?
2011 was a very successful year for the company on a number of levels. We invested heavily in delivering new and innovative products and services designed specifically for the online gaming industry. About 18 months ago, John Stone - former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Systems (Ireland) - joined Continent 8 as our CTO. He has led our product development team to further enhance our global infrastructure platform and lay the groundwork for our long term strategic technology plans. Our industry leading DDoS mitigation, global MPLS Network, and newly introduced Cloud Platform are key components of our Managed Services that enhance our core co-location and hosting business. We have continued to serve the leaders in online gaming for more than a decade on three continents. We have added Gibraltar to our international data centre footprint and are actively
pursuing further site development in Ireland, Canada, and the United States.
The eGaming industry has seen some major events this year, which do you think have been the most significant?
We have seen two major events this year: Black Friday and a number of high profile mergers and acquisitions. Black Friday has been well documented and the fallout is still not completely felt. It would take a head strong person to say that Black Friday does not affect them. It affects every stakeholder in the online gambling industry not only those operators, players and licensing jurisdictions directly involved, but also those that are actively planning future initiatives.
The high profile mergers, the biggest of which was Bwin and Party Gaming, are indicative of business trends in parallel with other industries in these challenging economic times. The requirement for companies to become cost efficient and focus on their core competencies allows technology
Contacting Continent 8 Technical
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suppliers, like Continent 8, to be a key value component to the forward thinking industry leaders. Our already well established customer base has grown this year because of this, in both breadth and depth.
Do you see any major changes on the horizon for the eGaming sector and if so what do you see as the major threats and opportunities?
2012 will be a testing year for operators, regulators, and suppliers. There are multiple paths that may evolve and the one caveat that Continent 8 constantly abides by is that the only certainty is that change will always happen. Being able to be agile and react quickly to evolving market conditions globally will lead to opportunities. Our focus will continue to be to stay close to all stakeholders – our customers and prospects, legislators and regulators, and competitors and future partners. For over a decade, this formula has worked well for us in the myriad of “watershed” events that have happened…and will continue.
Headquarters
Continent 8 House Pulrose Road Douglas IM2 1AL Isle of Man
Tel. +44 1624 678 888
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Isle of Man • London • France • Gibraltar • Malta • Singapore • Montreal
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