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Senior Industry Manager, iGaming
Google
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Jason Williams
CEO
Bingo.com
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| Jason Williams was VP Business Development and Marketing Director of Bingo.com before assuming the role of CEO in 2011. With over 10 years of online bingo experience, Mr. Williams spearheads all of the strategy and marketing activities for Bingo.com. |
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Irina Cornides
Head of Bingo
Costa Bingo (BGO)
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Irina is the Head of Bingo at BGO Entertainment. She is responsible for the management of their 3rd party software brands Costa, Sing, City and Fancy Bingo as well as bgo.com, their proprietary platform.
An economist with degrees from UCL and LSE, Irina started her career in Management Consulting before moving into gaming in 2004, when she joined PartyGaming. During her time with the company both pre- and post- IPO she held various positions including Retention and VIP Management and oversaw the company’s presence at several WSOP events.
Irina has also worked in the not for profit sector in Africa and India in her capacity as CEO of a charitable trust with a £25m endowment. |
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Claire Osborne
Head of Digital Operations
Mecca
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Jurian Van Der Meer
Managing Director
Endemol Games
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Phil Fraser
Founder
Whichbingo + Focus Online Management
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Lior Shiff
CEO
Product Madness
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Peter Ward
CEO
Quizzino
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An experienced gaming, entertainment and social media business leader with extensive expertise gathered over 20 years having worked for a range of entities from PLCs to start ups in fast-growing business units: Creating, producing and launching innovative media products from social games to new gambling products to a variety of TV entertainment productions.
- Expertise in business modelling, product innovation, development and deployment, marketing and operations.
- Launched several online bingo, poker and casino products and run social media projects including an award-winning social bingo site which uniquely "gamified" the online bingo experience by baking social game features into a real gambling product.
- Developed and launched several social game titles and social media marketing campaigns for businesses in gambling and other retail sectors.
- Managed advertising campaigns across range of online media channels.
- Established international business structures with partners in N. America, South Africa, Europe and Australia.
- Expertise in regulatory compliance, legal, contractual and financial matters.
- Managed bingo sites from top to bottom including schedules, bonuses, acquisition and retention strategies and customer support.
- Spent five years at Sky Betting & Gaming as Head of Channels for its gambling business, building and launching several live new online gambling verticals and the UK’s most successful multiple-platform live TV Casino, Poker and Bingo channels.
- Served as a media investment specialist at internet incubator Brainspark.com.
- Worked for a number of leading UK broadcasters and production companies as a TV Producer in the Entertainment sector and also set up and run several of my own TV production companies.
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Jodi Littlepage
MD
CitiCourt & Co
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| Jodi Littlepage is a respected corporate financier in London, with a high profile career as an expert in technology, particularly gaming, payments and mobile technology. She has over 15 years’ experience in finance, starting her career in finance as an advanced corporate finance analyst advising companies such as ABB, ABN AMRO, Pepsi and a number of other blue chips companies on WAAC and financial risk. Jodi was one of the first equity analysts in the online gaming sector, she brought this experience to Baker Tilly, the 5th largest accounting firm in the country, as a Director of Corporate Finance in 2004. Being an entrepreneur at heart she then joined Citicourt & Co Limited in 2006 as a Director and shareholder where they completed a number transactions including fundraisings and M&A in the gaming and bingo sector and advisory on disposals of technology and pharmaceutical companies. Commencing the beginning of the global economic crisis she was headhunted to become the Head of Corporate Development at Finncap, where she was largely responsible for growing the small caps business from an early stage broker to the leading small caps broker in London, through good relationships and delivery to corporate clients and investors from the UK, Europe and the USA, heading up the Private Equity/ VC business and advising, trading in and raising funds for numerous companies on AIM and the LSE. She then brought in the high profile PE individual as the chairman of the company and in turn instituted the company's buy out from JMFinn. Jodi has an extensive Global network of land based, I-gaming and gaming contacts in the UK, US and Asia. She returned to Citicourt in 2011 due to growing demand for M&A and Private Equity to invest in quality companies, and for reliable smaller company (under £100m) corporate finance advisory services, M&A, MBO’s, MBI’s and fundraising. |
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Simon Smiley
COO
Bejig
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| Simon is the COO of beJig, a social games company he co-founded in 2011 with backing from New Game Capital. beJig’s games, available on facebook and tablet, are AvaTingo, Five Star Slots and Sh*thead. Simon began his career in gaming as a licensed general manager for Mecca Bingo clubs in the UK. In 2008 he joined Ladbrokes as their head of bingo and oversaw rapid growth in their online player numbers and NGR. He then co-founded QuickThink Media which is now a leading marketing business in UK online bingo with its brands Freebingohunter.com, Iceland Bingo & Hippo Bingo. With responsibility for sales and marketing at QuickThink, Simon also led a successful application for an online gambling license in the Isle of Man. Simon is based in Borough Market, London, with beJig’s team of developers. |
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Tony Lister
Head of Gaming
Mecca Bingo
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Peter Wilson
Founder + partner
Peter Wilson Legal LLP
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Simon Murphy
Head of Gaming
FreemantleMedia Enterprises
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| Simon Murphy is the Head of Gambling EMEA at FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME). Simon joined the FME team, who represent such well-known brands as The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, Family Fortunes, Take Me Out and many more. With more than eight years’ experience in the online gambling, mobile and landbased industries, Simon has held key roles with WagerWorks, the remote gaming arm of IG and prior to this he was the Commercial Director of Million 2-1, a mobile gaming specialist acquired by IGT in June 2008. |
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James Goode
Head of Marketing and Strategy
mFortune
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Aideen Shortt
Mobile Gambling Industry Expert Consultant
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| Aideen Shortt an independent betting and gaming contractor, and researcher of many Business Intelligence reports on topics as varied as Mobile Gambling, Social Media and Payments. She is a long-time veteran in the interactive gambling space having been involved in a range of senior and director level roles since the outset of online betting and gaming over 10 years ago. Her range of experience includes both operator and supplier side of the gambling market across all product sectors (online and mobile betting, gaming, casino, poker and bingo) and she is an active participant and speaker at global industry events and has an extensive network of contacts. |
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Michael Brady
Founder & CEO
Bede Gaming
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Simon Collins
Founding Partner
NewGame Capital LLP
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David Jane
Head of Bingo
Akamon Entertainment
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| David Jané, Bingo Product Manager at Akamon Entertainment, and is an expert in gaming, where he has worked since 2003. Founder of several companies related to the online and gaming industries, David joined Mundijuegos.com project in 2008. In his role as Bingo Product Manager, he led this game experience to be considered the Best Social Bingo Product at the EGR Operator Awards 2012, and is now leading the new mobile Bingo Product. |
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Chris Drake
Head of Interactive
Praesape PLC
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Andy Thomas
MD for Market Development
Experian
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John Hagan
Founding Partner
Harris Hagan
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Samuel Martin
Partner
Asensi Abogados
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Samuel Martín is an Information Technology lawyer. Prior to joining ASENSI, Samuel had an extensive experience since 2004 in the Technology Law Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP in London and in PricewaterhouseCoopers, as Senior Associate of the IT Law Department in Barcelona.
Samuel is an expert on Spanish and cross-jurisdictional privacy, data protection and eCommerce legislation. He also advises suppliers and acquirers on a range of technology related contracts including IT and outsourcing contracts and complex technology procurements and also has considerable experience on litigation relating to data protection, consumer law and Internet domains, having advised some of the major multinational companies in high technology sectors such as search engines, social networks, financial entities or ISPs, among others.
He bears the title of a Master of International Company Law awarded by the University of Barcelona.
He is also professor at ESADE Business School, teaching the Computer Procurement subject in the IP/IT Law Master Course.
Samuel collaborates with various national and international publications, regularly speaks at international conferences and client seminars on Gaming Law, Privacy and other IT Law related matters.
Samuel speaks English, Spanish, Catalan and Basque.
He may be contacted at: samuel@asensi.es |
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