// COMPANY · CHAPTER 02 · 2026

Twelve quiet
years.
One loud
next move.

Scout has been around since 2013 — the engine, the patents, the operator relationships. New ownership. New leadership. A platform we're rebuilding from the rail up. This is the part where it gets loud.

TRANSITION LOG v3.0 · IN DEVELOPMENT
2013 Founded · Stockholm FOUNDED
2016 Listed on Nasdaq First North (delisting initiated 2026) PUBLIC
2018 First US operator deployment SCALED
2020–24 Operator base · maintenance mode QUIET
APR 26 Acquired by Impact Win · new leadership · platform rebuild ↑ NOW
2026–27 Next 12 months · v3.0, impact rail, operator pipeline SHIPPING

Same name.
New company.

In April 2026, Impact Win acquired Scout. The share purchase agreement was signed on 10 March 2026; the share transfer closed on 22 April 2026. The IP, the operator contracts, the regulatory footprint — all of that stayed. Over the next twelve months, almost everything else is changing: ownership, leadership, product roadmap, and where the money goes when a wager settles. And this time we're not rebuilding alone — our operators are in the driver's seat. Every roadmap call, every release, every impact decision goes through them first. Keep what took a decade to build. Rebuild the rest, with the people who actually run the books.

01 / OWNERSHIP
Acquired by Impact Win, April 2026.
Scout now sits inside the Impact Win group. The mandate: B2B fantasy with an optional impact rail. Patient capital, not flip-and-exit.
02 / LEADERSHIP
Two leaders. John on strategy & commercial, Anna on operations.
John Ryott — CEO & CCO, twenty-plus years in iGaming. Anna Zakipour — COO, running operations and the AI-native way of working. Profiles below.
03 / PRODUCT
v3.0 platform. Rebuilt, not refactored.
New plug-in surface. New impact rail. Two-week go-live. Same wallet, same KYC, no migration on the operator side.
// LEADERSHIP · CEO FILE 01 / 06

The CEO has
been doing this
since 2003.

Fantasy has been the most under-built layer in iGaming for a decade. Operators kept treating it as a marketing widget. We're treating it as the core engagement product — and we're going to ship it like one.

John Ryott
Chief Executive & Chief Commercial Officer · Scout Gaming
20+
Years iGaming
Operator and supplier side, regulated and emerging markets.
5
C-suite roles
Across product, commercial and exec leadership.
14
Markets shipped
EU, UK, LatAm, North America — both .com and .se domains.
€1.2B
GGR · responsibility
Cumulative across operator P&Ls he's owned outcomes for.
// TRACK RECORD · SELECTED
Tier-1 EU operator · CCO · 4 yrs Nordic supplier group · MD · 3 yrs UK B2B platform · CPO · 5 yrs Founder · fantasy startup · 2008–12 Industry boards · EGBA · IBIA
John Ryott
// CEO & CCO · PORTRAIT · 2026
John Ryott
CEO & CCO · 2026—
STO · MAL · LVI
JoinedApril 2026
BasedStockholm · Malta
Reports toImpact Win Board
Reachjohn@scoutgaminggroup.com
LinkedInjohn-ryott↗
// LEADERSHIP · COO FILE 02 / 06
Anna Zakipour
// COO · 2026
Anna Zakipour
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER · 2026—
STO · MAL · LVI
JoinedApril 2026
BasedStockholm
LeadsIntegration · Efficiency · AI
Reachanna@scoutgaminggroup.com

The merger has its own job title now.

Eight years in IT management and product development — most recently as CEO of This is Deploy in Stockholm, building digital products alongside game development studios and operator-side clients. The job at Scout is the same craft, scaled up: take two organisations, find the duplicate work, kill it. Make AI native to how we operate.

Anna Zakipour
Chief Operating Officer · Scout Gaming
8+
Years in IT & product
IT management and digital product development across studios, agencies and operator-side clients.
CEO
This is Deploy · prior
Led the Stockholm studio's mission: simplify how digital product ideas get built and shipped.
2
Organisations merging
One backlog, one roadmap, one team — across Stockholm, Malta and Lviv.
AI·0
AI-native by default
AI built into how the merged org operates — a default tool, not a feature on the roadmap.
// LEADERSHIP · HEAD OF AI FILE 03 / 06

From a tech company
to an AI company.

Scout had thirteen years of engineering behind it and worked the way software companies worked in 2013: specs, sprints, handovers, a roadmap measured in quarters. The shift was not adding AI to the product. It was rebuilding how the company thinks, so that every function reaches for AI first and the roadmap is measured in weeks.

Kevin Negash
Head of AI · Scout Gaming
3w
Idea to production
Target cycle time on major drops. Down from a quarterly release rhythm.
100%
Of roles using AI daily
Product, engineering, support, sales and ops. Not a pilot team, the whole company.
AI
In the product, not on it
The AI live casino exists because the company learned to build this way first.
20
People, big-company output
How a small org competes against suppliers many times its size.
Kevin Negash
// HEAD OF AI · 2026
Kevin Negash
HEAD OF AI · 2026—
STO
BasedStockholm
LeadsAI strategy · tooling · adoption
OwnsAI live casino build
Reachkevin@scoutgaminggroup.com

Twelve years,
one inflection.

Scout was built early, scaled fast, then settled into maintenance mode for most of the late 2010s and early 2020s. The April 2026 acquisition is the first real product reset since 2018, and the next twelve months are when the work actually ships. Here's the honest version.
2013 · FOUNDED
2013
Stockholm. Daily fantasy engine for European football. Patent filed on lineup-builder algorithm.
2016 · IPO
2016
Listed on Nasdaq First North. First B2B contracts with Nordic operators.
2018 · US
2018
First tier-1 US sportsbook integration. Patent portfolio expanded.
2020–22 · QUIET
2020
Pandemic-era retraction. Operator base held but the product roadmap stalled.
2023–24 · MAINT.
2023
Maintenance mode. Cash-flow positive but no new product surface area.
APR 2026 · RESET
2026
Acquired by Impact Win (SPA 10 Mar, closed 22 Apr). New CEO. Engineering team rebuilt. Platform rewrite begins.
↑ INFLECTION
2027 · LIVE CASINO
2027
AI live casino launches in full: the complete game portfolio, running on the Malta MGA licence expected in Q1 2027.
// INSIDE LVIV · ENGINEERING CENTRE · SHEVCHENKA AVE. FILE LVIV-01 / 03

Where most of
the engine gets
built.

The Lviv office is our engineering centre — backend, infrastructure, data and integrations. Operating without interruption since 2022 through everything. Mid-week, mid-deploy, no staging.
// 01 · OPEN FLOORWindow onto vul. Shevchenka, late autumn light LVIV-IMG-01
// 02 · DEEP WORKBackend engineer, before stand-up LVIV-IMG-02
// 03 · ENG ROWPlatform team · view back toward the city LVIV-IMG-03
// LOCATIONShevchenka Ave. 32 · Lviv
// MANDATEEngineering · infra · data
// OPERATING SINCE2012 · uninterrupted
// CURRENTLY2 roles open

Six people
change the
company.

A small leadership reset in 2026 set the tone for the rebuild. The bench is still small on purpose — we're hiring slowly and deliberately. Open roles below the grid.
John Ryott
John Ryott
CEO & CCO
Anna Zakipour
Anna Zakipour
Chief Operating Officer
Jenny Eriksson
Jenny Eriksson
Chief Financial Officer
Timur Miretsky
Timur Miretsky
Head of Compliance · MLRO
Anastasiya Kanunikova
Anastasiya Kanunikova
Head of People & Culture
Kevin Negash
Kevin Negash
Head of AI
+
Head of Engineering
→ Open · Stockholm
+
Senior Designer
→ Open · Remote EU
// COME WORK WITH US · OR BUY FROM US

Bet on the
second act.

If you operate a sportsbook and want fantasy that actually moves a P&L — book a demo. If you want to build the next decade of fantasy iGaming from the inside — careers below.

Book a demo → See open roles
// OFFICES · 03
Three doors,
one team.
01 · HQ
Stockholm
Frösundaviks allé 1
169 70 Solna · Stockholm
SE · 59.34°N
02 · LIC
Malta
Level 3, SPM Tower
Pjazza Tigné, Sliema · Malta
MT · MGA
03 · ENG
Lviv
Shevchenka Ave. 32
79000 Lviv · Ukraine
UA · 49.84°N
hello@scoutgaminggroup.com +46 8 410 320 00