Nick Bogdanovich, who served as William Hill US sportsbook director since 2012, has been let go by Caesars Sports. This occurred just four months after Caesars Entertainment bought William Hill for $4 billion. At the time of the purchase, Caesars said that Bogdanovich would serve as the merged company’s vice president of trading. However, he recently confirmed that his new bosses had a change of heart.
Bogdanovich said about being fired: “They wanted to go in a different direction.”
When William Hill bought the Vegas-based Club Cal-Neva, American Wagering and Brandywine Bookmaking in 2011 for $55 million, Bogdanovich was serving as director of bookmaking operations.
Bogdanovich was not the first William Hill executive to face the axe. When Caeasars completed the acquisition of the US business, it chose not to keep on the chief executive officer, Joe Asher.
The former CEO spoke about Bogdanovich’s contribution to the success of William Hill US.
“I had the pleasure of working closely with Nick for nine years, and it is impossible to overstate how instrumental he was in building the William Hill US business,” he said. “A lot of people forget that when we started in 2012, few people in the U.S. had ever heard of William Hill. Nick was a big reason that changed in short order. From the beginning to the end of our time together, he was terrific.”
