EUROPE’S biggest online bingo company has unveiled their new international managing director.

Former University of Newcastle student Murray Chisholm, 41, was appointed managing director of tombola international at the end of last year.

Tombola has its group headquarters in Wylam Wharf, Sunderland, but Murray will be based in the company’s Gibraltar office.

“It’s long been an ambition of mine to work with tombola, so I’m thrilled to have joined the company,” he said.

Manchester-born Murray moved to Newcastle to study and earned extra money by working as a croupier at a Tyneside casino.

In 2003, Murray spotted a job advert for gaming company Victor Chandler (now BetVictor) in Gibraltar in 1999. “I was recruited to manage, develop and expand the casino, poker and gaming customer support teams”.

When children came along, Murray moved back to the UK, having found a job helping to set-up a poker software company (Tribeca Tables Poker). Which was sold for $140m in 2007.