Svenska Spel Chief Executive Lennart Käll has resigned his post as head of the Swedish state-owned gaming operator after seven years at the organization.
In his parting comments, Käll said, “I am proud of what I together with my management at Svenska Spel have accomplished during my time as CEO. We have delivered on public assignments and showed that as a gaming company you can combine responsibility and growth. Svenska Spel is well equipped for Sweden’s new gaming market.”
Käll leaves as the country prepares to regulate online gaming and open the market to global providers, reports Games Magazine Brasil.
Svenska Spel Chairman Erik Strand thanked Lennart for “the good work he has done during his seven years as CEO. Svenska Spel—Swedish people’s gaming company—is well prepared for the restructuring of the market that will hopefully come into force at the turn of the year. The recruitment of Lennart’s successor has started and will be completed in the spring.”
In a strange side note, in April 2016 Käll was stopped in his car at gunpoint and told to pay SEK 2.9 million (US$369,000), which the gunman claimed was the amount his father lost betting with Svenska Spel. The assailant took the CEO’s credit cards and was later apprehended.
