Richard Glynn

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Richard Glynn is the departing CEO of betting firm Ladbrokes.

Career

Glynn joined betting company Ladbrokes as the chief executive in April 2010 on a five year contract worth up to £12 million. After struggling to come adjust to digital age and getting the company's digital division up to speed it was announced in December 2014 he would not have his contract renewed.[1]

Letter to the Telegraph

On 1 April 2015 Glynn was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[2]

Notes

  1. Natalie Thomas and Ashley Armstrong Ladbrokes' embattled chief Richard Glynn to leave in 2015 Telegraph, 3 December 2014, accessed 2 April 2015.
  2. Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.