Technology provider SharpLink Gaming Inc. has announced that board member Leslie Bernhard has been elected chair of the company’s audit committee and Robert Gutkowski has been appointed to the board and will join the audit and compensation committees.
On Feb. 16, Adrienne Anderson resigned from the board, as chair of the audit committee and as a member of the compensation committee.
“There are no words to adequately express our appreciation to Adrienne for the sound and thoughtful guidance and support she has provided our leadership while serving as a director on the board of SharpLink Gaming Ltd. since July 2021,” Rob Phythian, chairman and CEO of SharpLink, said in a press release, “I’m also very pleased to welcome new director Bob Gutkowski to our team. A true industry visionary renowned for his strategic brilliance, love of sports and big league deal-making success, Bob is an incredible addition to our board and is a director whose experience will undoubtedly prove invaluable to SharpLink as we move our company forward.”
Gutkowski’s career spans more than five decades in the sports, entertainment and media industries. His achievements include the cable distribution deal between the New York Yankees and Madison Square Garden Network and his leadership role in the creation of SFX Entertainment.
This leadership restructuring follows on the heels of SharpLink Gaming’s completion of a domestic merger, integrating SharpLink Gaming Ltd (SharpLink Israel) with SharpLink Gaming Inc (SharpLink US). The merger, effective Feb. 13, repositioned the company’s corporate jurisdiction from Israel to Delaware and transformed SharpLink Israel into a wholly-owned subsidary of SharpLink US.
The merger aligns with a initiatives aimed at refining SharpLink’s focus on performance marketing for the sports betting and casino gaming industries, including the sale of its fantasy sports and free-to-play sports game development business for $22.5 million, retiring its interest-bearing debt and ensuring compliance with Nasdaq’s listing standards.
