EPIC Pro Sport Advisory Board

EPIC Risk Management is proud to unveil its first-ever EPIC Pro Sport Advisory Board. The nine-person board includes a blend of people drawn from the sporting ecosystem that EPIC Risk Management believes can play a significant role in minimising gambling harm in elite sport.

The main purpose of the EPIC Pro Sport Advisory Board is to use the respective board members’ expertise across gambling, gaming, esports, integrity, athlete welfare and lived experience to guide EPIC’s wider strategic goals and objectives in elite sport and esports.

In EPIC’s work in elite sports, we make athletes aware of the potentially destructive financial, health and performance implications that out-of-control gambling can cause. The work we do enables athletes to make better-informed decisions, reducing distraction and maximising performance whilst also evaluating their own, and their teammates’ relationships with gambling.

The board will aim to meet twice per year, and will not only provide a chance to formulate strategies to minimise gambling harm around the sporting sector, but also provide each board member with an opportunity to share best practice in this area and take it back to their respective organisations for the benefit of their members, who are predominantly elite professional athletes in various sports or esports.

“We are extremely proud to announce such a diverse and wide-ranging advisory board.

“All members are well-respected in their field of expertise, and we feel their knowledge and personal experiences will make a valuable contribution to this board.

“In turn, we’re delighted to provide members of the board the opportunity to guide our harm minimisation programmes across elite sport which will ultimately protect athletes in their careers from gambling harm and promote and advocate the importance of gambling awareness and education across this area.”

Paul Buck, CEO, EPIC Risk Management