Rod Perry

Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Director

Rod Perry was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of PartyGaming in August 2008. He originally joined PartyGaming in April 2005 and became a Non-Executive Director in May 2005. Until 2009, Rod Perry was a Non-Executive Director at Gulf of Guinea Energy (a private Cayman company with operations in Nigeria) and Indago Petroleum, an AIM listed oil and gas exploration company incorporated in Guernsey and operating in Oman. He is also an advisor, director and member of the investment committee at Ithmar Capital, which is a $250 million private equity fund focused on the GCC region from its base in Dubai. More recently he has become a Partner in Life Africa Emerging Markets Capital. This is a new fund which is acquiring cellular phone operations across sub Saharan Africa. The first company (Madamobil) has just become operational in Madagascar. Rod Perry had previously been an executive director at 3i Group plc, latterly responsible for venture capital investment activities worldwide. He joined 3i in 1985 as an industrial adviser and was appointed to the executive committee in 1997. He retired from the 3i board in July 2005.

Committees
Member of Remuneration (Chairman), Audit, Nominations and Integration Committees.