H2 Launch Mobile Data, Consultancy and Market Intelligence Company

Posted on 25/10/2011 in General News

Following many months of research in to the mobile gambling sector, over 15 years experience in the interactive gambling sector and the launch of the industry’s most comprehensive and authoritative mobile gambling study, Gambling Goes Mobile. H2 Leisure are delighted to announce the launch of a new data and consultancy business, H2 Mobile. 

The world is changing, no longer is PC/Laptop at the leading edge of interactive technology, the world has moved from what was know as the Google generation to what H2 are coining the “interactive mobile generation”. In a world that is rapidly changing H2 Mobile looks to steer operators, suppliers, analysts and investors towards understanding the opportunity and significance that mobile gambling presets. H2 Mobile will offer services in data, consultancy and market intelligence as well as drawing on our experienced and expanding team.

As part of the consultancy offering, H2 mobile are very pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Gaming Edge Associates. As part of this partnership, Gaming Edge’s latest associate Charles Palmer will be joining the H2 Mobile team.

Charles has a long history of excellence in the mobile gambling industry, initially through co-founding Mfuse in 2002 and later growing Betfair’s mobile business to be one of the most successful in the industry.  Charles is currently a Partner at Fu Sheng Interactive a Chinese venture capital and technology brokerage company focused on high-growth sectors in Asia, including mobile gaming, social media, console gaming and lottery.

Both GEA and Charles will be available to compliment the existing expertise of H2 Mobile, advising clients on opportunities presented by new technologies and assist in developing strategies to allow businesses to benefit from disruptive trends.

Joel Keeble, Managing Director of H2 Mobile, commented “We are very excited about the potential for H2 Mobile in a growth area that is set to be the most important change to the gambling industry since interactive first took off in the early 2000’s” he also added “Our services are designed to give organisations the edge that is needed in a new market and help them to prevent a similar loss of market share that land based operators faced during the initial interactive growth years.”

After many years of promising much the mobile gambling market is set to reach €5.4bn by 2015. Experience has shown first movers have a great advantage in interactive gambling with the mobile winners expected to be decided over the next three years, it is time to act now. H2 Mobile draws on expertise gained in the gambling sector along with technology and mobile related sectors to offer the gambling industry with a solution that takes in to account all the relevant aspect of a mobile focused business.

H2 Mobile is a member of the H2 Leisure Group of companies which include H2 Gambling Capital and H2 Sport. The group is a member of Global iGaming Advisors and is partnered with Gaming Edge Associates and Trust Partners. H2 Mobile is also the official mobile gambling partner of eGaming Review.

Over the coming months H2 personnel will be speaking at EiG, G2E and ICE. If you would like to speak to one of our team about anything mobile please let us know.

For Further Information

Contact: Joel Keeble

Telephone: +44 7810 006157

Email: joel.keeble@h2gc.com

Site: http://www.h2gc.com/h2leisure.php

About

H2 Mobile is an industry leading mobile consultant, market intelligence and data team. H2 has a track record of over 15 years in the gambling industry along with many years in mobile and technology related sectors to provide the perfect solution across the mobile gambling industry.

H2 Leisure Group has played a key role in many gambling companies strategies, provided information and advice to investors and analysts and been instrumental in helping shape legislation around the world.

Our team includes industry experts, operational partners and local companies with understanding of local issues and trends.

H2 Mobile provides a one stop solution for all mobile gambling needs. For more information please contact mobile@h2gc.com

Joel Keeble

Joel Keeble is the managing Director at H2 Mobile, a specialist consultancy and leading supplier of data and market intelligence regarding the mobile gambling industry. H2 Leisure Group’s data and forecasts have become the industry standard.

Joel is an experienced consultant and responsible for H2 mobile, poker and data capture products. He has worked with or provided consultancy to many of the largest and most successful companies in the gambling sector and across technology related sectors, including a significant number of Global 500 organisations. 

In his current capacity Joel oversees and manages the mobile gambling and poker divisions at H2 and has extensive understanding of these areas as well as his broader knowledge of the interactive and land based gambling sectors.

Joel has worked at H2 for more than two years and previously worked at a number of leading technology related organisations including IBM and Sun Microsystems.

Joel regularly undertakes fact-finding trips and has commented on and featured in several leading industry publications as well as provided data/quotes to non-industry leading publications such as the BBC, Sunday Times, Economist and Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at a number of high profile industry events.

Joel’s broad skill set includes detailed experience of cutting edge technologies including mobile, market research and analysis and project management delivery of high quality enterprise level products.

Charles Palmer

Charles is a Partner at Fu Sheng Interactive (www.fushengi.com ) a Chinese venture capital and technology brokerage company focused on high-growth sectors in Asia, including mobile gaming, social media, consolegaming and lottery technologies.

Charles also recently joined H2 Mobile to provide mobile specific consultancy services and strategy for its clients. H2 Mobile is positioned to be the leading mobile consultancy business for the gambling sector. Charles, using his wealth of experience in mobile, will advise companies on opportunities presented by new device technologies and assist in developing strategies to allow businesses to benefit from disruptive trends.

Prior to this in 2002 Charles co-founded Mfuse the leading mobile gambling technology company.

H2 Leisure

H2 Leisure Group has been developed to establish our team's interests across the leisure sector, to ensure we are able to adopt a coordinated approach and take advantage of any potential synergies.

Across the group H2 are able to call upon a number of complementary specialties in order to tailor our service to you specific needs.

Both H2 Sport and H2 Mobile offer consulting and market intelligence built upon the same principles as H2 Gambling Capital. As with gambling both of these areas are being led by sector specialists in order to ensure that the advice and the information we offer is specialist rather than generalist. We believe our expertise across the leisure sector will be increasingly important in understanding the recreational consumer of the 21st Century.

Gambling Goes Mobile is available NOW for €1,500 (£1,300 +VAT in the UK)

Further Information regarding the report can be found at (http://www.egrmagazine.com/resources/1682807/gambling-goes-mobile-new-mobile-gaming-report-2011-available-now.thtml) or by contacting Sarah Sweby at s.sweby@pageantmedia.com