REG - Streaks Gaming PLC - Board Appointments

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20 February 2023

Streaks Gaming PLC

("Streaks" or "the Company")

Board Appointments

London, United Kingdom - Streaks Gaming PLC (LSE: STK), a GPT-driven
conversational gaming platform targeting customers in the emerging US sports
betting market is pleased to announce the following appointments to its Board
of Directors.

Philip Blows has been appointed as Executive Director and Digby Try has been
appointed as Non Executive Director. Both appointments will take effect on 20
February 2023.

Philip Blows brings more than 17 years of leadership experience in the
platform, fintech, and asset management sectors where he co-founded and
spearheaded the scaling-up of listed crypto exchange and startup incubator
AQRU Plc. His previous experience includes as Director at Wealth Wizards, a UK
robo-advice platform; senior foreign exchange adviser at Continental Capital
Markets S.A and head of trading at Moneycorp. Philip graduated from the
University of Leeds and went on to gain an MBA from the University of Geneva.
He holds several internationally recognised financial certifications and
qualifications, including an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA
Institute and has been certified a Blockchain Expert by the Blockchain
Council. He is also the author of a personal finance book, The Money Triangle.

Digby Try has a track record of over 20 years in senior management roles in
the currency, payments and fintech sectors in both the UK and US. Digby is
co-founder of AQRU Plc where he manages the growth of the cryptocurrency
platform and subsidiary businesses. Previously, he was Head of Global Sales at
OpenPayd, a technology-led banking and payments platform for businesses, where
he specialised in delivering fiat banking rails to the crypto industry and
worked alongside many of the world's leading exchanges. His previous
experience includes seven years as Vice President of Sales EMEA at
Currencycloud, which was subsequently acquired by Visa for £700m; three years
as business development manager at Moneycorp and five years at HiFX (now
XE.com), including as head of dealing in the US. Digby is a graduate of the
University of East Anglia.

Philip Blows and Digby Try are both Directors of AQRU Plc which has a 20.2%
interest in the equity of Streaks.

Mark Rutledge, Chief Executive Officer of Streaks, commented: "I am delighted
to welcome Phil and Digby to the board of Streaks. Their respective track
record developing products and scaling businesses in the fintech space will be
invaluable in our goal to make Streaks a global leader in the AI driven
conversation gaming space".

Were LR 9.6.13 to apply to the Company, there would be no further information
to disclose.

For more information, please visit Streaks Gaming PLC's website at
playstreaks.com.

 

Contact

 

 Streaks Gaming Plc
 Mike Edwards             Via First Sentinel

 Non-Executive Chairman   +44 203 989 2222
 Tennyson Securities
 Corporate Broker         +44 207 186 9030

 Peter Krens

 

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