Hacksaw Names Philippa Gregory Operational CEO of Gaming Unit

Hacksaw AB announced on November 3, 2026, that Philippa Gregory has been appointed Operational CEO of its wholly owned Hacksaw Gaming subsidiary, succeeding Marcus Cordes. Cordes will build a team and accelerate Hacksaw Markets, while Chief Commercial Officer Luke Hammett joins Group Management in a reshuffle giving gaming and prediction markets dedicated leadership.

Gregory and Cordes will work in parallel until December 1, 2026, to manage the handover. Gregory will then continue as Operational CEO with a primary focus on gaming, while Cordes develops Hacksaw Markets and builds its management team. The schedule keeps both executives involved in the transition before their operating responsibilities diverge.

Internal Experience Supports the Handover

Gregory joined Hacksaw Gaming in April 2022 and has served on Group Management since January 2025. The company credits her with extensive knowledge of its operations and strategy, experience navigating evolving regulatory requirements and established relationships with key stakeholders. Her appointment places an internal successor already embedded in the group’s senior leadership at the head of the gaming operation.

Hammett has worked at Hacksaw Gaming since its early years, handling commercial activities and building customer relationships in close collaboration with Cordes and Gregory. He joins Group Management as Chief Commercial Officer of Hacksaw Gaming in Malta, adding an established commercial perspective as the other two executives assume separate business priorities.

Cordes, identified as a director of Hacksaw Gaming, said he had spent five years building a management team ready for its next phase and recommended Gregory as his successor. His new assignment is intended to let him focus on where he can create the most value for the group, while he continues supporting its long-term value creation.

Gregory set out her priorities for the gaming business: “My priority as Operational CEO is to continue strengthening our core business, with clear accountability, disciplined execution and a firm focus on profitable growth,” she said.

The Business Cordes Will Lead

Cordes’s new assignment follows Hacksaw’s launch of its B2B Prediction Markets platform on October 15, 2026. The platform is designed to let operators offer peer-to-peer prediction markets through Hacksaw’s technology and infrastructure without building those systems independently, while retaining their brands, customer relationships and user experiences. A connected volume framework is intended to aggregate participation across its operator network. The Malta Gaming Authority also extended Hacksaw’s B2B Critical Gaming Supply License to Type 3 Gaming Services, authorizing B2B peer-to-peer prediction-market services alongside its existing Type 1 authorization.

Group CEO Ana Vrabic Verdir connected the appointments to the parent company’s strategy: “This transition gives both businesses the dedicated leadership and focus needed to support our group strategy,” she said.

The central consequence is a clearer division of management attention. Continuity in gaming rests on Gregory’s handover and her profitable-growth mandate, while the prediction-markets expansion gains an executive specifically responsible for building its organization. Hacksaw has given each priority a dedicated leader; the execution challenge now runs across both businesses.