Judge Severely Restricts Ex-DraftKings VP’s Work at Fanatics

DraftKings Inc.‘s former VIP marketing chief is heavily restricted in his work at rival sports-betting firm Fanatics for a full year from the date he left the company, under terms of a non-compete deal he triggered by switching jobs, a Boston federal judge ruled.

Ex-DraftKings’ executive Michael Hermalyn can’t provide any competing business—including Fanatics— with services that “relate to any aspect of the business” that Hermalyn performed or confidential information he learned during the six months before he quit on Feb. 1, Judge Julia Kobick said in an order granting a preliminary injunction handed down Tuesday in the US ...