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Speakers
This pan-European summit has a strong multinational representation from Italy, Germany, France, UK, Spain, Benelux, and many more, making this the must-attend legal event for the gaming and gambling industry.
The speaker rostrum includes operators renowned legal experts.
| Pontus Lindwall, CEO, Betsson |
Mr Pontus Lindwall (43) is the CEO and President of Betsson, which is a gaming company listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Mid Cap. Betsson is a pure business to consumer company and has a market cap of 280 MEUR.
Mr Lindwall started his career as a student at the Royal Institue of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. After his master was finished in 1991 he started working as a business developer for the landsbased gaming company Cherry. After a couple of years at Cherry he quit the business and began working with his family’s real estate company. However, in 1996 Mr Lindwall returned to the gaming industri as he founded Net Entertainment when he realized the possibility of gambling over the Internet. Later on Net Entertaiment was aquired by Cherry which Mr Lindwall later on became CEO and President of. Cherry aquired the site Betsson.com in 2005. Net Entertainment was split up in two pieces and the B2B-business is now listed on the Nasdaq OMX Nordic Small Cap with a market cap of 110 MEUR. The original landbased business of Cherry was separated from the Internet business in 2006 and Cherry was renamed Betsson. Betsson is now a succesful internet gaming operator.
Mr Lindwall lives in Stockholm with his wife and five kids.
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| Richard Glynn, CEO, Sporting Index |
 Richard is Chief Executive of the Sporting Index Group, the world’s largest sports and event spread betting company with an estimated UK market share of over 75%. Sporting Index offers spread bets on a wide range of international sports and on world and tv events. It also offers a pricing and liability management service for companies wishing to provide betting to their clients. The company transacts predominantly through its websites and also offers customers the ability to bet on mobile phones and via telephone. Uniquely, over 50% of all bets are taken ‘in play’, i.e. during the event. Sporting Index has also developed a wide range of on-line, proprietary gaming products, utilising its compelling higher/lower mechanism.
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| Mark Davies, Managing Director, Betfair |
 Since establishing Betfair, Mark has been at the forefront of the challenge to understand how betting and sport interact and has led initiatives with government and sport. Mark led Betfair's licensing initiatives on both sides of the world and was also behind the company's much-documented information-sharing agreements with sport.
Mark comes from a family steeped in sporting tradition. His father, Barry Davies, is the BBC’s leading sport commentator and his sister Giselle is Director of Communications at the International Olympic Committee.
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| Thomas Murphy, General Counsel, William Hill |
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Peter Wilson, Partner, Blake Lapthorn |
 Peter joined the firm in 1989 and specialises in gambling and business investigations. He has acted for clients across the gambling sector, both land-based and remote. In particular, he has been advising on internet gambling for a number of years now and assists clients in a variety of different gambling jurisdictions around the world with regulatory and commercial issues.
Peter has a varied business investigation practice including representing tax payers in relation to HMRC enquiries and defending fraud, money laundering or other white collar prosecutions. He also has experience in dealing with broader regulatory matters including environmental, food safety, gang master licensing, trading standards and immigration
Peter is a member of the Society for the Study of Gambling and the International Bar Association (Business Crime Section). Out of work, he enjoys art.
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Morten Ronde, Head Legal Adviser, Danish Gaming Board |
 Morten Ronde is a Master of Law from Copenhagen University in 1999. He started his career as a legal adviser in the Danish State Lottery the same year.
In 2000 he moved to the newly founded Gaming Board to a position as Head Legal Adviser. The Danish Gaming Board is an independent body in the Ministry of Taxation.
Morten works with a multitude of regulation and policy issues both domestically and internationally. In his work he is – amongst other things - involved in legislation, EU infringement case and the Ladbrokes civil court case against the Danish State.
Internationally he is involved with the European regulatory organization, GREF, Gaming Regulators European Forum, where he holds a position as a member of the Executive Board.
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| Malcolm Philips, Code Policy Executive, ASA & Committee of Advertising Practice |
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Andre Wilsenach, Chairman, International Association of Gaming Regulators |
 André Wilsenach has been the CEO of the Alderney Gambling Control Commission, since 2002. This is an independent and non-political regulatory authority in the Channel Islands, established to license and regulate eGambling in Alderney.
In 1995, he was appointed as a member of the Commission that investigated and recommended the legalisation of gambling in South Africa.
During the period 1995 to 2000 he was the CEO of one of the South African provincial gaming boards and a member of the National Gambling Board of South Africa.
In 2001 he was appointed as the CEO of Zonke Monitoring Services, a private company established to render electronic monitoring services to the National Gambling Board of South Africa.
During the period 2003 to 2005 he advised the Guernsey Gambling Control Commission on the development and implementation of a regulatory framework for casino gaming.
He is currently the Chairman of the International Association of Gaming Regulators and a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law.
He received the Regulator of the Year Award from the World Online Gambling Law Report in 2005 and 2008.
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Clive Hawkswood, Chief Executive, Remote Gambling Association |
 Clive Hawkswood has been Chief Executive of the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) since its establishment in August 2005 following the merger of the Association of Remote Gambling Operators (ARGO) and the Interactive Gaming, Gambling and Betting Association (iGGBA). Before that he was the General Secretary of ARGO.
Clive was formerly head of the Betting & Racing Branch at the British Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS). Prior to that, he was at the Home Office, spending time in both the Gambling Section and the Horseracing Policy Team. Earlier in his career he spent several years working in the bookmaking industry.
He is also a Director of the Responsibility in Gambling Trust (RIGT), the British charity that raises and allocates funds for problem gambling related research, education and treatment.
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Daniel Widman, Widman Hannes Snellmans |
Daniel Widman is a Member of the Finnish Bar Association and partner of the law firm Widman & Hannes Snellman Ab (http://www.widmansnellman.fi; e-mail: daniel.widman@widmansnellman.fi; telephone: +358 18 17740).
The law firm Widman & Hannes Snellman is based in Mariehamn, Åland Islands, Finland. Daniel is specialized in inter alia gaming law and has acquired an in-depth knowledge of Åland, Finnish and European gaming law issues over the past years and advises several gaming operators. For instance, Daniel Widman was actively involved in the court case that ended up in the Finnish Supreme Court (KKO 2005:27)kers
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John Eriksson, Widman Hannes Snellmans |
John Eriksson is an associate lawyer at the law firm Widman & Hannes Snellman Ab. John took the Master of Law examination at the University of Uppsala in 2008. His work for the examination consisted of a Master Thesis on how far Swedish gaming legislation corresponds to EC law and he also carried out preparatory work for the examination at Ålands Penningautomatförening [the Åland Islands Slot Machine Association].
He specialises in gaming law, property law, law on commercial agreements and procedural law. John Eiksson has also published an article “Lottery Legislation in Åland" in Internet Gambling Report 11th edition and other articles on internet gambling forums.s include...
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Mr. Helmut Kafka, First Vice-President, EUROMAT |
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Wes Himes, Managing Partner, Policy Action |
 Operating in London and Brussels, Mr. Himes advises clients on a range of gaming and gambling public policy and commercial issues. He maintains effective relations with key Parliamentary decision-makers in London and Brussels, the European Commission, the Member States and regulators.
Mr. Himes and his team provide advice on EU public policy issues to the Remote Gambling Association (RGA). Through this relationship, he has worked with large gambling operators in the areas of online gambling, betting, gaming and amusement. He is also involved in offline casino development and regulation risk control.
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Nick Hawkins, Legal Director, Danoptra |
In Opposition served as Shadow Minister in a variety of roles for over 5 years
(appointed and promoted by all of 4 successive Tory leaders-John Major, William Hague, Ian Duncan-Smith and Michael Howard)
Most senior role, Shadow Solicitor-General, 2003.
Twice served as Shadow Minister for Gambling, 2000-01 and again 2003-04
Served on the Bill Standing Committee doing the line-by-line scrutiny of
What became the Gambling Act 2005.
Did not contest the 2005 General Election, but returned to the law.
2005-06, with international law firm AMJ, Sultanate of Oman
2006-07, with Harris Hagan, specialist City Gambling and Licensing Law firm
Consultant Head of Gambling Law for Halliwells LLP, national firm, based in City office, for few months in 2007
2007 to date, Legal Director and Company Secretary, Danoptra Ltd
(owners, among others, of major UK gaming machine manufacturers Bell Fruit and major UK gaming machine distributors Gamestec)
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| George Magnion, Senior Partner, GMM Solutions |
 George Mangion F.C.C.A., C.P.A.A., M.A. (Financial Services), is the senior partner at GMM Business Solutions. George has over 25 years experience in accounting, taxation, financial and consultancy services. His efforts have seen that GMM Business Solutions has been instrumental in establishing many e-Commerce, online betting and gaming companies in Malta and has developed relationships with market leaders in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, USA, Belgium, Italy and Scandinavian countries. George is a regular contributor to local newspapers on business, i-gaming and e-Commerce. He has also lectured and delivered presentations at numerous seminars and conferences worldwide.
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Thibault Verbiest, Partner, ULYS Law Firm |
 Thibault Verbiest is a founding partner of the Law Firm ULYS (www.ulys.net). He is a member of the Bars of Brussels and Paris, specialised in gaming and information society law. He is professor at the University of Paris I Sorbonne, former chairman of the federal agency Internet Rights Observatory, and General Member for France of “International Masters of Gaming Law”. The Law Firm ULYS is one of the leading gaming law firms in Europe, representing major European casino groups and bookmakers.
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Quirino Mancini, Partner, SCM Partners |
 Quirino is a Partner at Sinisi Ceschini Mancini (www.scm-partners.it), a general practice firm with offices in Rome, Milan, Genoa and Republic of San Marino. The firm’s main areas of practice are telecommunications, new media and sports & entertainment.
Over the past decade Quirino has developed an almost unique knowledge and practice in matters related to national/EU gaming and betting legislation, assisting several Internet and land-based casinos, gaming houses and sportsbook companies in connection with their Italian operations and market entry projects as well as advising on all related licensing, regulatory and compliance aspects
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Santiago Asensi, Partner, Asensi Abogados |
 Santiago is a partner of Asensi Abogados, a law firm that specialises in the Audiovisual, Entertainment, Gaming and Technological sector with offices in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Santiago’s principal areas of practice are gaming and gambling law. He assists several software providers and sports betting, casino and bingo operators, with interests in Spain/Europe.
Santiago was a member of the Studies, Reports & Projects Commission of the General Spanish Bar Association from 2004 until 2006. He has contributed to the Spanish Gambling Market Report for Media Entertainment Consulting Network (MECN) and he has published several articles about the gaming and gambling industry. He is also a member, for Spain, of IMGL (the International Masters of Gaming Law).
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Hilary Stewart-Jones, Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner |
 Hilary heads a team of lawyers who all work full time advising for the gaming sector, providing fully integrated multi jurisdictional advisory services to the gambling industry, which ranges from regulatory and licensing advice to contractual and compliance. She advises a broad range of clients from operators to banks and entities more peripherally associated with the industry.
Hilary is recognised as a leading expert in the Legal 500 and Chambers, and was selected by The Lawyer as one of the “Hot 100” lawyers in the UK in 2007. In 2005 she was voted Lawyer of the Year by the World Online Gambling Law Report.
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| Martin Owens, Partner, Law Offices of M.D Owens |
|  Mr. Owens is a California attorney specializing in the law of Internet and interactive gaming , and related issues, serving clients worldwide since 1998.
He co-authored INTERNET GAMING LAW with Professor Nelson Rose, America’s senior authority on gambling law ( Mary Ann Liebert Publishers 2005, 2009), as well numerous other articles. He currently serves on the Editorial board of Gaming Law Review magazine.
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| Wulf Hambach, Partner, Hambach & Hambach |
Dr. Wulf Hambach is a partner and co-founder of the law firm Hambach & Hambach Rechtsanwaelte, a specialised law boutique for advice on German and International Law of the TIME-industries / Telecommunications – IT – Media & Entertainment, with a special focus on Gaming Law.
Since several years Wulf is a General member of the International Masters of Gaming Law as well as Member of the International Association of Gaming Advisors. Furthermore he is co-founder of the European portal on gaming and gambling law (www.gaminglaw.eu).
In 2008 he was recommended as No.1 in german Gaming Law by the independent ranking commentary “Chambers and Partners”. Recently he was awarded as “Lawyer of the Year 2008” by the World Online Gambling Law Report, the leading sector publication.
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| Anne-Marie Pecoraro, Partner,
Aklea Legal Advisors
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 Anne-Marie Pecoraro acts in the domains of competition, distribution and commercial contracts, as well as in the intellectual property, new technologies and entertainment law department.
She specialises in advertising, literary and artistic property and trademarks law. She has also a sound legal knowledge regarding designs and models and disloyal competition (at national and international level). She has expertise in contract drafting and negotiation, and advises her clients and defends their rights in the case of litigation (notably, in the case of counterfeiting).
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Garth Kimber, Head of eGaming Development, Isle of Man |
 In July 2007 Garth joined the Isle of Man Government’s Department of Trade & Industry tasked with promotion of the island’s unique package of benefits for e-Gaming companies in this premier jurisdiction. Since then he has secured a number of the world’s top online gaming companies and assisted them with their set-up in the Isle of Man.
Previously, Garth ran his own business having developed new businesses in South America, Australia and Asia for a major US media company.
As part of the jurisdictional overview he will provide an update on the Isle of Man’s licensing process, benefits available to companies licensed in the island and future plans for the development of the sector.
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| Robin Le Prevost, Head of E-Commerce, Alderney Gambling |
 Robin Le Prevost, a highly successful Business Development Manager was born in Guernsey one of the British Channel Islands. Having spent a significant part of his early working life working abroad, Robin returned to the Islands in the early 80’s. Working in a mixture of finance and start-up projects Robin joined the local government owned Guernsey Telecoms as Business Development Manager in 2000, a company, which was bought out by the global giant Cable and Wireless in 2002.
During Robin’s time with Cable and Wireless he assumed responsibility for the islands growing e-gambling community and in 2005 left C&W to set-up his own consultancy in the sector and was subsequently head-hunted to represent the interests of the Government of Alderney in promoting that Island as the leading Jurisdiction in the EGambling sector.
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Phil Brear, Head of Gambling Regulation, Gibraltar Gaming |
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