Andrew Bagguley, the former group product management consultant at Deutsche Telekom is to head the new mobile development hub at Ladbrokes.

He brings a wealth of technical experience to the Ladbrokes table, having worked on a number of large mobile Internet related projects across the European DT Group for the past three years, and prior to that service on the executive team at Lebara Mobile, where he worked on mobile projects across eight nations, including Australia.

Baggguley’s impressive CV also includes management positions at Vodafone Internet Services and Guardian News and Media and News International, where he specialised in mobile projects.

In 2005 he joined Project Mobile as a director, after moving from a technical management position at T-Mobile International

Earlier management positions included Scoot.com, Intergraph UK Ltd and Ocella Holdings, which he joined after graduating from Kingston University.