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20 February 2023

Streaks Gaming PLC

("Streaks" or "the Company")

Board Appointments

London, United Kingdom - Streaks Gaming PLC (LSE: STK), a GPT-driven conversational gaming platform targeting customers in the emerging US sports betting market is pleased to announce the following appointments to its Board of Directors.

Philip Blows has been appointed as Executive Director and Digby Try has been appointed as Non Executive Director. Both appointments will take effect on 20 February 2023.

Philip Blows brings more than 17 years of leadership experience in the platform, fintech, and asset management sectors where he co-founded and spearheaded the scaling-up of listed crypto exchange and startup incubator AQRU Plc. His previous experience includes as Director at Wealth Wizards, a UK robo-advice platform; senior foreign exchange adviser at Continental Capital Markets S.A and head of trading at Moneycorp. Philip graduated from the University of Leeds and went on to gain an MBA from the University of Geneva. He holds several internationally recognised financial certifications and qualifications, including an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Institute and has been certified a Blockchain Expert by the Blockchain Council. He is also the author of a personal finance book, The Money Triangle.

Digby Try has a track record of over 20 years in senior management roles in the currency, payments and fintech sectors in both the UK and US. Digby is co-founder of AQRU Plc where he manages the growth of the cryptocurrency platform and subsidiary businesses. Previously, he was Head of Global Sales at OpenPayd, a technology-led banking and payments platform for businesses, where he specialised in delivering fiat banking rails to the crypto industry and worked alongside many of the world's leading exchanges. His previous experience includes seven years as Vice President of Sales EMEA at Currencycloud, which was subsequently acquired by Visa for £700m; three years as business development manager at Moneycorp and five years at HiFX (now XE.com), including as head of dealing in the US. Digby is a graduate of the University of East Anglia.

Philip Blows and Digby Try are both Directors of AQRU Plc which has a 20.2% interest in the equity of Streaks.

Mark Rutledge, Chief Executive Officer of Streaks, commented: "I am delighted to welcome Phil and Digby to the board of Streaks. Their respective track record developing products and scaling businesses in the fintech space will be invaluable in our goal to make Streaks a global leader in the AI driven conversation gaming space".  

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For more information, please visit Streaks Gaming PLC's website at playstreaks.com.

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