Breon Thomas Corcoran (born July 1971) is an Irish businessman, the CEO of IG Group and a non-executive director of Tilney Investment Management Services and Bestinvest, both part of the Tilney Group.
[1] He worked for JP Morgan and Bankers Trust, before joining bookmakers Paddy Power in April 2001 with responsibility for developing the non-retail business, becoming a board director in 2004, and rising to COO in August 2010.
[1] In September 2015 he then led the merger of Betfair with his former employer Paddy Power, for which the Sunday Times named him its 2015 Businessperson of the Year.
[6] In August 2017, Corcoran announced he was stepping down as CEO of Paddy Power Betfair,[7] he was succeeded in January 2018 by Peter Jackson.
[10] In December 2023 the online trading/spreadbetting business IG Group announced that Corcoran was to become its next CEO, from January 2024.