This week’s people moves include Better Collective, Polymarket, Meta, Raventrack, and more.
Better Collective has laid off between 75 and 85 staff global.
Two senior directors of business development, Guy Harding and Gloria Cereda, are understood to be among those affected by the recent restructuring, Next.io reported.
The redundancies comes following the outright ban on betting in Brazil from President Lula, which has disrupted the industry.
Better Collective, which has operations in the market, said this was the “straw that broke the camel’s back”.
Other notable people moves
Polymarket: Cuts workforce amid restructure
Polymarket has confirmed it has laid off a number of staff and terminated contractor agreements as part of a broad restructuring plan.
The cuts are primarily within the prediction market firm’s marketing, customer experience, and engineering departments.
A spokesperson told Fox: “As we’ve grown and brought on new leadership, we’ve reorganised to set the company up for its next phase of growth, which has meant a lot of new hires, changes in personnel and letting some people go.”
Polymarket has also disputed reports which said it had cut 30% of its workforce, but has not disclosed how many jobs were affected.
Meta: Infrastructure head steps down
Meta’s head of infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, has stepped down after 17 years at the company.
He will continue to help the leadership transition until Q2 of 2027.
Dave Brown, who joined the company as vice president of infrastructure earlier this year, will replace Janardhan.
Skydance: Hires first CCO
Skydance Product and Technology has hired Efrain Miron as its first chief commercial officer.
He previously worked at Paramount as head of content strategy and licensing, DTC, and Netflix as vice president of original series.
Dane Glasgow, chief product officer at Skydance said: “Efrain has been one of our closest partners in growing our streaming business, from expanding our live sports offering to helping bring Pluto’s new experience to life.”
Havas Media: Kebrina Robinson as VP of strategic intelligence
Havas Media has appointed Kebrina Robinson as vice president of strategic intelligence.
She brings experience in audience intelligence, insights, research, and has held positions at Omnicom, Essence media, and WPP.
Raventrack: Julian Pitts as commercial director
Julian Pitts has been promoted to commercial director at Raventrack after just over a year as head of commercial at the company.
Pitts previously held positions at SBC and Bettfred.
SiriusXM: Anjali Sud as new CEO
SiriusXM has appointed Anjali Sud as its new chief executive.
She brings a wealth of experience having had the same role at Tubi, as well as been a board member for SiriusXm, Change.org, and Dolby Laboratories.
She said on LinkedIn: “It’s a big, challenging mission, and exactly the kind of opportunity that ignites me.”
OpenAI: new global head of scaled ads solution
Samuel Bevan has been appointed as global head of scaled ads solutions at OpenAI.
He said on LinkedIn: “Throughout my career, I’ve been passionate about democratising access to technology and helping businesses of all shapes and sizes, wherever they are in the world, reach new customers, compete and grow.”
Samsung Ads: Nelson Boyce as new SVP of sales
Nelson Boyce is Samsung Ad’s latest senior vice president of sales.
He will look to strengthen the department’s commercial execution, and will look to drive growth for itself and its advertising partners.
Kudo: New head of prop
Kudo has appointed Felice Digennaro as its new head of prop. Digennaro brings extensive experience in the affiliate marketing and partner development space.
He said on LinkedIn: “I am very pleased to join the team at Kudo and support the growth, let’s make prop trading great again.”
