Profile: Breon Corcoran

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Age:43

Appearance: every inch the Silicon Valley tech boss

Newsworthiness: he will head up Paddy Power Betfair if a proposed merger of the two gambling giants goes through

Breon Corcoran routinely used a mathematician’s trick when assembling a team to transform Paddy Power from Ireland’s largest bookmaker chain to an international e-commerce powerhouse.

“What’s your mobile number?” he would ask an interviewee, invariably receiving an 08-something response. “What do you get when ...