iGP has undergone a leadership change, as Jovana Popovic Canaki has been promoted to CEO of the iGaming platform and aggregator supplier.
Canaki has been with iGP since joining as Deputy CEO in June last year, and her promotion is part of a recent “strategic rethink and realignment” for the business.
Replacing Chairman Giovanni Paticchio as CEO, Canaki is also one of a handful of female CEOs of a B2B iGaming business.
Commenting on her new role, Canaki said: “I am honoured to be named CEO of iGP, and thank Giovanni for this opportunity. I’ve spent my time here getting to know and understand our operators’ needs and really believe that iGP is the business to lead and solve their problems.
“We have an extremely exciting product roadmap for 2025. We’re launching our new retail and omni-channel solution at ICE, enhancing our crypto tools after launching in 2024, and on top of this, growing momentum with new operators joining across our platform and aggregator solutions.”
Since joining iGP, Canaki helped the company refocus its business to solely B2B by dropping its White Label solution from its portfolio.
Canaki brings 17 years of experience to the CEO position, as she has previously worked for Bragg Gaming and Aspire Global, assisting in high-profile product launches and partnerships.
“Jovana has spent considerable time at the start of her tenure deeply engaging with our business and used that time to create a vision for iGP that is truly inspiring,” added Paticchio.
“I can confidently hand over the reins to iGP, knowing it is in great hands with Jovana leading and implementing the strategies that will take our company to the next level and solve the growth-restricting issues so many operators face.”
Canaki has previously expressed iGP’s ambitions for expansion and scalability. She emphasised the potential for the business’s future during an interview at SBC Summit Lisbon last year.
“For me it’s never about the role, when the opportunity came along with iGP it was about the company and when I was approached everything was screaming in my head one word, potential,” said Canaki at the time.
“It’s really about the combination of all the right things, the right people, the right products and the right tech stack. At iGP we have all of that and we have the right base to build on top of and to create new products.”
