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Financial modelling & forecasting
Investor-ready P&L, cash-flow and unit-economics models. Driver-based forecasting, scenario planning and board-level dashboards built in Excel and BI tools.
DeMontevin Consulting partners with online gaming, bingo and games-of-skill operators across the UK, Europe, Africa and the Americas — bringing CFO-grade rigour, COO-level operational depth and decades of player engagement and monetisation know-how to fast-moving markets.
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DeMontevin Consulting is led by Stephen Downer — former Director of Gaming at Sky Betting & Gaming, ex-COO of Gaming Realms plc, and the operator who set up Betfair's New Jersey business. London-based, with hands-on experience launching and scaling online bingo, casino, sportsbook and skills-with-prizes products across nine countries. We work alongside founders, boards and management teams who need senior operating judgement without the senior overhead.
Engagements are scoped to the question, not the hour — from a single workstream to a fully embedded fractional CFO/COO role.
Investor-ready P&L, cash-flow and unit-economics models. Driver-based forecasting, scenario planning and board-level dashboards built in Excel and BI tools.
Market-entry strategy and licensing roadmaps across regulated and newly opening jurisdictions. Practical guidance on tax regimes, AML, RG and ongoing compliance posture — backed by experience launching in the UK, US (NJ), Spain, Italy, Denmark and Kenya.
Operational design for bingo, casino, sportsbook and skills-with-prizes businesses — payments, fraud, customer ops, BI stack and team architecture, with KPIs that actually drive the business.
Sell-side and buy-side advisory — investor decks, financial due diligence, data rooms, valuation work and transaction project management. Personally involved in gaming exits and acquisitions totalling over $350m.
Commercial framing for new product lines — bingo, sportsbook verticals, casino content, instant games and emerging formats — with the player-engagement, monetisation modelling and rollout plan to back it.
A specialist niche — from Slingo and bingo-style mechanics to casual games of skill. Product design, regulatory positioning, player monetisation and platform build, drawing on direct COO-level experience operating a leading skills-with-prizes business.
Most engagements blend two or three of the above. Tell us the question — we'll tell you what good looks like.
Scope an engagement →From mature regulated regimes to newly opening jurisdictions — hands-on launch, scale and exit experience across the UK, the Americas, continental Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.
Home base
London-headquartered, with deep Gambling Commission fluency from over a decade operating in the world's most mature iGaming market — from Sky Betting & Gaming through Gaming Realms plc.
Launch experience
Set up Betfair's New Jersey business — first-hand experience of US regulated entry, multi-state licensing strategy and the realities of operating under DGE oversight.
Active focus
Operator-side experience across Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania. Mobile-money native, regulator-engaged, growth-first — with a particular focus on the Kenyan market.
Regulated EU
Product and operations experience under the DGOJ regime — a tightly regulated market that rewards disciplined operators.
Regulated EU
ADM-licensed market exposure — from product localisation to payments and the unique commercial dynamics of Italian online gaming.
Regulated EU
Spillemyndigheden-licensed operations experience — a small but technically sophisticated market with high compliance expectations.
North America
Experience navigating the patchwork of provincial frameworks — including the AGCO-regulated Ontario market and adjacent grey-to-regulated transitions.
Caribbean
Direct working experience in the Jamaican market — a useful lens on small-island gaming dynamics, regulator engagement and Caribbean diaspora products.
Short, opinionated reads on iGaming finance, operations and regulation. Coming soon.
Excise duty, withholding tax and turnover tax compound in non-obvious ways. A practical framework for stress-testing your unit economics.
Read article →Lessons from the Slingo era on how to design, position and license SWP products in mixed-regime markets — and where operators most often trip up.
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Read article →Whether you're scoping a market entry, launching a new product, preparing for a raise, or just want a second pair of CFO/COO eyes on a model — start the conversation. Most replies within 24 hours.