> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.igamingnews.biz/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Flutter Names Dan Taylor CEO as Peter Jackson Steps Down - URL: https://www.igamingnews.biz/flutter-dan-taylor-ceo/ - Published: 2026-08-07T12:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-12T13:34:38.000Z - Description: Flutter Entertainment named Dan Taylor, its International division CEO, as group chief executive from 1 October 2026, succeeding outgoing CEO Peter Jackson. - Author: iGamingNews Editorial Desk - Tags: Executive Moves, Flutter Entertainment *Image credit: Source: Flutter Entertainment plc regulatory announcement. Never imply stock depicts the actual event.* **Flutter Entertainment will replace chief executive Peter Jackson with Dan Taylor, the head of its International division, effective 1 October 2026, the FanDuel and Paddy Power owner disclosed in a 5 August SEC filing.** Taylor, currently CEO of Flutter International and Flutter President since May, joins the Board on the same date. Jackson steps down as CEO and director the day before, on 30 September, after leading the company since 2015. The succession lands on the business Taylor already runs. Flutter International, which spans FanDuel's international brands plus Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars and Sportsbet, generated more than $9 billion in revenue and over $2.2 billion in Adjusted EBITDA in 2025, according to the company's announcement. As President since May, Taylor has also carried commercial responsibility for the whole group, including FanDuel's US sportsbook improvement plan, which the company says is "showing encouraging early signs of momentum." Jackson's exit is orderly on paper. The 8-K states his departure "did not result from any disagreement with the Company, its management or the Board on any matter related to the Company's operations, policies or practices." He stays on as an advisor through year-end to hand over the reins, with his employment formally ending 31 December 2026. His transition agreement, filed with the SEC, lays out the terms: continued base salary, pension contributions and benefits through the termination date, satisfying his 12-month contractual notice period, plus eligibility for a 2026 annual bonus based on actual company performance. His outstanding long-term incentive awards get partial treatment tied to performance conditions, including full vesting of one LTIP tranche and pro-rated vesting of two more. He also receives a lump sum equal to three months' salary and benefits, up to 12 months of continued health cover, and support with tax filings and professional advisor fees. Flutter will file the full agreement as an exhibit to its next quarterly report. Board chair John Bryant credited Taylor's "outstanding track record of delivering results, building high-performing teams and leading complex international businesses" and said the board has "every confidence that he is the right person to lead Flutter into its next phase of growth." Taylor said his priority is "to keep delivering for our colleagues, customers and shareholders, while building on the momentum we've created across the business." Jackson, who called the succession decision one built on years of working alongside Taylor, said he leaves "with great confidence in Dan, the leadership team and the Company's future." Taylor, 46, holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge and has spent over a decade inside the Flutter family of brands. He ran Paddy Power Betfair from 2018 to 2020, was managing director for UK & Ireland and for retail from 2015 to 2018, and worked at Teletext Holidays, DMG Media and OC&C Strategy Consultants before that. He also sits as a non-executive director at Dunelm Group. ## An insider succession, not a strategy reset Flutter did not go outside for its next CEO, and the timing tells its own story. The company completed its London Stock Exchange delisting on 3 August, two days before naming Taylor, consolidating its listing entirely on the NYSE. FanDuel already changed hands operationally in May, when [Amy Howe departed and Christian Genetski took over](https://www.igamingnews.biz/fanduel-leadership-transition-howe-genetski/) as the US brand's day-to-day leader. Stack those together and Taylor inherits a group mid-restructure: a [single US listing that has lost about two-thirds of its value over the past year](https://www.igamingnews.biz/flutter-lse-delisting-complete/), a domestic sportsbook still repairing its numbers, and rivals like [IG Group buying into prediction markets](https://www.igamingnews.biz/ig-group-underdog-prediction-markets-acquisition/) faster than FanDuel Predicts can respond. Promoting the International CEO rather than recruiting externally signals the board wants continuity in execution, not a change of direction. Taylor already owns the P&L that is working. The test now is whether the discipline that built Flutter International's margins travels to FanDuel, where Flutter still has to prove the improvement plan holds once the marketing spend and the promotional taxes catch up with it. Rivals filling senior seats with outside hires, like [Sportradar's move for Entain's Sameer Deen](https://www.igamingnews.biz/sportradar-sameer-deen-coo/), are betting fresh perspective beats internal knowledge. Flutter just bet the other way.