ZEAL Network SE
- ISIN DE000ZEAL241
- Country Germany
Company profile
ZEAL Network SE, Germany´s leading online provider of state-licensed lottery products, is a Hamburg based Group which mainly brokers customers´ tickets to the state lottery companies through the brands Lotto24.de and Tipp24.com, for which it receives a commission. The offerings include among others »Lotto 6aus49«, »Spiel 77«, »Super 6«, »EuroJackpot«, »GlücksSpirale«, lotto clubs, »Keno« and the »Deutsche Fernsehlotterie«. Founded in Germany in 1999 as Tipp24 SE, it was initially set up as a lottery broker. In 2005, it was floated on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Prime Standard) and became one of the most successful initial public offerings (IPOs) in Germany at the time. In 2009, the Group changed its focus from lottery brokerage to the secondary lottery business. Shortly after this, it moved its registered office to London and was renamed as ZEAL Network SE in November 2014. In May 2019, ZEAL completed the takeover of Lotto24 AG, returned its Tipp24 secondary lottery to the German brokerage business in October 2019 and relocated its registered office back to Germany in the same month.
Management
Dr Helmut Becker is CEO of ZEAL since 1 September 2015, after being Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for more than two years. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL since mid 2011 and Chief Commercial Officer of XING AG since September 2009. In this capacity he was responsible for Product, Marketing and Revenues divisions. Before taking up this position at XING AG, Helmut Becker was Senior Director Advertising and Internet Marketing of eBay Germany and Managing Director of eBay Advertising AG. Prior to these posts he was Managing Director of the eBay subsidiary Shopping.com Deutschland and Director Strategy and Corporate Development for eBay. He began his career as a consultant at McKinsey. Dr. Helmut Becker studied physics at the University of Hamburg and the University of Cambridge, where gained his PhD.
Sebastian Bielski, born in 1978, is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the ZEAL Group and responsible for Finance, Investor Relations and ESG.
With a degree in business administration, his professional focus is on managing and ensuring all financial matters of the ZEAL Group as well as on financial management and financial reporting. Furthermore, he is responsible for the support and acquisition of investors. He is also responsible for the management and strategic expansion of the ESG division.
Prior to his career at ZEAL, Sebastian Bielski was CFO at the online credit comparison portal smava and Chief Strategy Officer at the online food ordering company Delivery Hero, among others. In total, he has more than ten years of experience in senior positions at high-growth, consumer-focused Internet companies and eight years of experience in investment banking and private equity.
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Paul Dingwitz is member of the ZEAL Management Board since 5 June 2021, after being in charge for Technology Operations, Security and Engineering at ZEAL for more than five years. He has more than 20 years working in the technology sector and more than ten of those years holding executive leadership positions. Prior to joining ZEAL, he was Vice President of Technology for Rue La La in Boston as well as CTO of ONE Media Corp in Atlanta. He also held a senior engineering role at CNN where he helped develop and deploy the first online live video portal for the network. His background and expertise is diverse – across operations, security and engineering – all starting 1997 with Military service early in his career. He studied Technology Management at the American Military University (AMU/APU).
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