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Mr. Salim Adatia joined TST in January 2001 as a Marketing and Business Support Consultant, and spent the first six (6) months at TST's Melbourne and Sydney offices where he received a thorough induction program in TST's testing and client support methodologies conducted by TST's consultants and management.
Upon Mr. Adatia's return to the Vancouver office in July 2001 he was promoted to Marketing and Client Support Manager for North America, working with clients to meet each of their individual and unique needs and has since been promoted to General Manager for North America and Europe. Mr. Adatia reinforces the North American team with his valuable knowledge in marketing, client support, customer service and relations, project management, change management, and management of small to large mission critical projects. Mr. Adatia has spoken at engagements in both Canada and the US.
Mr. Adatia has recently been involved in the expansion of TST's operations into Europe, working with jurisdictional Regulators in the Isle of Man, Alderney and in the U.K. Mr. Adatia oversaw, and continues to manage the opening of TST's new London, England based office which opened Quarter 1 of 2004.
Salim may be reached via email at sadatia@tstglobal.com or at in person at TST's booth number 615. |
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Cory Aronovitz is the founder of the Casino Law Group where he concentrates in the area of casino and gaming law. He represents riverboat casinos, Indian casinos, Internet casinos and casino service industries including manufacturers and distributors of gaming related equipment. His practice involves appearing before regulatory agencies related to licensing and game approvals, litigation on behalf of the casino industry and providing creative solutions to client needs.
Cory is a frequent writer and speaker on various topics related to gaming including contributing co-author to Internet Gambling Report VI; Internet Gambling Report V; International Casino Law third edition; Gambling Public Policies and Social Sciences; and Casino Gaming: Policy, Economics and Regulation; and panelist at the Chapman Law School Gaming Law Symposium and IMGL "Cross-Board Issues in Gaming" seminar.
Cory is a member of the Gaming Law Review editorial board, a founding member of the International Masters of Gaming Law, and an adjunct professor of gaming law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois.
In August 2000, Cory was named one of the "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40" by the Chicago Law Bulletin for his contributions to the gaming industry and an is a past award recipient of The John Rosecrance Gambling Research Paper Competition hosted by Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, University of Nevada. |
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Mr. Bernstein is lead counsel for the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) legal team.
Mr. Bernstein is a member of the First Amendment Lawyer's Association and the Free Speech Coalition, and practices all aspects of First Amendment and Internet law.
Mr. Bernstein is a regular and frequently requested speaker at state and national organizations and has been teaching for the Rutgers University Bureau of Government Research since the early 1980s. Mr. Bernstein has written articles for publication and serves as a Director of the New Jersey State Bar Association Local Government Law Section, where he was previously Vice President and Editor of its newsletter. |
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Bob Blumenfeld is a founding partner of Mendel-Blumenfeld, a Texas-based firm that represents leading global remote gambling companies and their service providers, as well as providing expertise and public speaking on online gambling issues. Mr. Blumenfeld's expertise in remote gambling began in the late 1990s when he and his partner, Mark Mendel, began representing prominent entrants into the online sports book industry. Since then, Mr. Blumenfeld and his firm have become leaders in representing remote gambling operators. His firm achieved international prominence in this area of the law by serving as lead counsel to the Government of Antigua and Barbuda in the US-Gambling dispute pending before the WTO. Mr. Blumenfeld's partner, Mark Mendel, is lead counsel to Antigua in the matter, which is still pending. Mr. Blumenfeld has focused his remote gaming law practice to the representation of operators who are seeking lawful and regulated access to the United States gaming industry. He has developed leading informational resources to support the concept of regulated remote gaming in the United States and elsewhere. Blumenfeld has presented topics on remote gaming at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) in Las Vegas the past two years and, more recently, was a featured speaker at the International Gaming Conference and Expo (IGCE) in Costa Rica. |
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Marita Carnelley, PhD is an attorney and associate professor in the School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
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Miles is the sales director of the data authentication division of Chester, UK- based, data solutions specialist GB Group Plc. He joined GB Group in 2002 to help with the creation of URUTM, an innovative solution that helps organisations validate the identity of new customers and prospects. Miles has been instrumental in furthering the debate on ID fraud prevention and has a keen insight into the business requirements for ID verification. Moreover he has been a key figure working with industry associations to look at how electronic ID verification can help in the fight against money laundering and fraud. He has written several papers and presented on many occasions on the subject of how electronic ID verification helps organisations comply with KYC (know your customer) regulatory requirements He is currently co-authoring a white paper on the impact of KYC on the online gaming industry. In the past year alone he has presented at many industry events, particularly in the gaming and financial services sectors, including Power 50 global gaming summit 05, The Retreat 05, Barclays Global Gaming Summit 05, Tackling Cyber Crime 05, Various trade associations and Government briefings.
Prior to joining GB Group plc, Miles was Regional Director within Dassault Systemes, one of Europe’s largest software companies and has 18 years of experience in working with organisations to ensure they have the right solutions to meet their strategic objectives.
Miles is married with two daughters and lives in Staffordshire in the UK.
Contact: miles.carroll@gb.co.uk, Te: +44 1244 657 318
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Jason Chan has been actively involved in the online gambling industry since 1999. He was managing director of G-Master Technology Limited, established in 2000, specializing in providing online gambling solutions in Asia for offshore operators. He and his team members have gained valuable experience through the service to a great numbers of the Top 50 online gambling companies over the past five years.
Jason Chan was also the founder and the organizer of a successful online payment company catering to the Asian region, Quick Access, with start up capital of US$1.25 million. In two years time, the company was acquired by Neteller for US$12.5 million.
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Duncan's 10-year career in sales, marketing and business development includes FTSE 100 & Fortune 500 industry-leaders, Vodafone, The Thomson Corporation and Co-Founder of a mobile SMS marketing and Entertainment Company.
Duncan led the corporate sales and marketing efforts from product to commercial launch for an EMEA Division of The Thomson Corporation. Prior to this, Duncan was a Sales Director within both the Caudwell Group of Companies and headed a sales channel for Vodafone managing their multi-million pound Pre-Pay Airtime products.
As a Director within the Caudwell Group he led sales management for the multi-million pound accessories business unit. Before entering telecoms, Duncan was a Senior National
Account Manager for Bass Brewers where he successfully negotiated a £28,000,000 supply contract with an FT100 supermarket multiple retailer.
Duncan earned his Postgraduate Business qualifications from Nottingham Trent University and was formerly a Captain in the British Army.
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Steve Cook is the Managing Director for Parlay Entertainment's European bingo business and currently building their Pan-European infrastructure from the UK. Previously, Steve was Managing Director for Tribeca Tables until the end of last year, where for 4 years he established the company as one of the top poker solution providers in the world. He has an impressive gaming career and was previously General Manager at Sega Europe for 8 years during the boom of the video game industry in the early 90s, before entering the I-gaming space in 2001.
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Mr. Derossi has over 20 years of leadership at leading technology companies. In the 1980's and '90's, Mr. Derossi spent several years at Apple Computer, culminating in a role of chief architect of OS 7, managing several hundred engineers. He joined General Magic, a pioneering PDA company, and was placed in charge of one of the company's two product lines-the licensed PDA platform. Following General Magic's IPO, Mr. Derossi started another company, ePeople. Mr. Derossi later served as CEO of Trading Technologies, a multinational software company headquartered in Chicago and catering to the futures trading industry. Mr. Derossi has been an avid poker player for many years and is co-author of Winning at Internet Poker for Dummies. |
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David Downes is the founder of YouGaming.com. YouGaming.com is a seed-stage startup gaming company with a patented new game concept. He has over 15 years of marketing and engineering experience with leading network equipment and wireless telecommunications companies.
He has previous startup experience, having founded a wireless company, obtained VC funding, and qualified as a bidder in the December 2000 US PCS spectrum auction.
David spent over 10 years as a commissioned military officer in the California Army National Guard, performing duties to include leading platoon- and company-sized units.
David holds a MBA from National University, a MSEE and BSEE from California State University, Sacramento, and is a licensed Electrical Engineer in the State of California.
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Kenneth Dreifach joins the New York law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal as Partner in May 2006.
Until April 2006, Mr. Dreifach was Chief of New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s Internet Bureau. The Bureau coordinates statewide law enforcement efforts regarding online consumer fraud, privacy, securities trading, gambling, access for the disabled, and other Internet-related issues.
Before joining the Attorney General’s office, Mr. Dreifach practiced complex commercial litigation in New York City, first at Hughes Hubbard & Reed and then at Morrison & Foerster. He has served as Judicial Clerk to Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the U .S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as well as for District Judge William O. Bertelsman of the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Mr. Dreifach is a graduate of Wesleyan University (Class of 1987) and the New York University School of Law (Class of 1991). Among his affiliations, he is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, where he has served on the Civil Rights Committee (1996-1999) the State Legislation Committee (1999 - 2002) and the Information Technology Committee (present). He is on the Advisory Board of the Electronic Commerce & Law Reporter, and has served as the Attorney General’s representative on the NAAG Internet Law Committee.
He is a frequent speaker on Internet law issues, and has authored or co-authored several articles on Internet Law, Consumer Law and Civil Rights Law, including, most recently, Postcards From the Edge: Surveying the Digital Divide, 20 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 53 (2002). |
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With more than 10 years experience in a variety of challenging roles, Andre Edelbrock is a leading expert in online payments and fraud management. Prior to joining Ethoca in 2005, Andre headed the department responsible for all international e-cash services and operations, and product management at CryptoLogic – (NASDAQ: CRYP, TSX: CRY, LSE: CRP), one of the prominent gaming and payment solution providers in the Internet gaming industry. In late 2000, he spent two years with Procuron, an Internet B2B marketplace start-up founded by Bell Canada, CIBC, Scotiabank and Desjardins. Andre has international business experience managing multi-jurisdictional operations with many years of experience as a management consultant, with a majority of that time spent with Deloitte Consulting (Toronto office) and IBM. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Andre may be reached at andre@ethoca.com.
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Alberto has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry in the United States and Latin America, having worked for leaders such as American Express, Banca Serfin, Visa International and Citigroup. Alberto’s main area of expertise is Risk Management, having managed Credit, Collections and Fraud Prevention at American Express, Visa International, and Banca Serfin. He has extensive knowledge in Information Security and has achieved Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) status, and he is qualified to perform Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Audits. Alberto also conducts Risk Management training in Latin America on behalf of Visa International in all aspects of Risk Management, including Fraud Prevention, Credit, Collections and Information Security. Alberto has served on the board of Total System de Mexico, Controladora Prosa, and TransUnion de Mexico. |
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Bruce started in the recruitment industry in 1991 and spent seven years as recruitment consultant with international consultancy, Computer People PLC, before establishing a retained search & selection division for Mortimer Alexander Knight & Charles. Bruce started recruiting in the iGaming industry during 1999 for a number of ‘start ups’, some of which are now international market leaders. Pentasia was then established in 2001 to focus purely on the high growth niche sector of iGaming. |
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Dan Goldman has been involved in marketing for 27 years, and has been a poker player all his life. He piloted PokerStars.com’s meteoric rise from a startup online poker site in 2001 to the world’s largest poker site today, with over 14 million players. He left PokerStars earlier this year as a result of the UIGEA, moving to skill poker game site DuplicatePoker.com, the only legal US-based online poker site. |
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Andy is a marketing/financial services director based in Melbourne, Australia and has more than 15 years experience in both online and offline marketing, sales, business development, client acquisition, media services and public relations.
With a background in the gambling industry which began in 1992, Andy has worked with clients across the sportsbetting, horseracing (both thoroughbred and harness), greyhound racing and slot/poker machine segments.
Andy has a degree in marketing and a diploma in financial services and has applied both his educational training and commercial experience to the online payment area via his involvement with the exciting payment solution – Ezybonds.
Andy is a Partner with the leading corporate marketing licensee for the Ezybonds system (EzybondsGlobal) and is an experienced speaker, having been a regular presenter on television and radio in Australia over a 12 year professional sporting career.
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Ian joined 192.com Business Services in November 2002 from Dun & Bradstreet where he was Third Party Sales Director responsible for European business development and e-Commerce initiatives. Ian was with Dun & Bradstreet for 14 years where he initiated D&B's Electronic Reference Services, building and implementing new direct and indirect sales channels and teams. His first task with 192.com Business Services was to develop the embryonic B2B division into a proven and substantial contributor to the company's revenues. In his first year with the company, Ian succeeded in growing 192.com Business Services' revenues by 85%. Ian works closely with leading retailers and gaming operations, integrating identity verification solutions as part of their fraud management strategies.
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Since 1996, Mr. Habari has been an online marketing guru to many of the web’s most successful online video broadcasting, billing and gaming companies in their online and offline marketing strategies, affiliate programs, internationalization, data-mining and information architecture as well as their creative and content development. In the past two years he helped to create, manage and optimize affiliate marketing and internet programs to cross-over with emerging technologies. In the past year Mr. Habari was Director Online Marketing for PartyGaming as well as leading the mobile strategy for the group. Currently, Mr. Habari is the founder and the CEO of 777Mobile.com which is positioned to become one a leading Mobile Gambling Operator. |
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Wulf is a partner and co-founder of the law firm Hambach & Hambach Rechtsanwaelte, (www.timelaw.de), a specialised law boutique for advice on German and International Law of the TIME-Industries / Telecommunication - IT - Media & Entertainment, with a special focus on Gaming Law.
For several years, Wulf has been a General Member of the International Masters of Gaming Law as well as a 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 “Lawyer of the Year 2008” by the World Online Gambling Law Report, the leading sector publication.
Wulf can be reached at info@timelaw.de
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William James is the co-founder of The James Gang Advertising Inc., and has led the company for over a decade, winning numerous awards including the writing credit for the "Digital Gold Marketing Award" and "Best in Show in 2003" for his work for Nike Canada. Casual Game projects include: Office-Politics, the game everyone plays; Whack The PM, Canada's national election spoof and poll; Verbotomy, the create-a-word game; and The Room, an interactive personality quiz created for Umbra. |
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Tai-Up Kim has been president of the World Mahjong Federation since 2001 and is the creator of mahjong portal site www.worldmahjong.net. He is also the CEO of TankSoft Inc., a provider of mahjong technology. Between 2001 and 2003 he obtained patents on a mahjong game machine (including software) from Japan, the United States, Taiwan, Korea and China.
Tai-Up Kim was an adjunct professor at SungKyunKwan University as well as at Dankuk University between March 1998 and February 1999. He was also an instructor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies from September 1985 to December 1992. He earned a B.S. at Seoul National University (Engineering College Department of Ocean Engineering) in 1972 and a Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Department of Ocean Engineering) in 1985.
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Richard A. LaBrie, Ed.D., is the associate director for research and data analysis at the Division on Addictions, Cambridge Health Alliance, and a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. He has led research investigations of the Iowa gambling treatment program, Missouri’s self-exclusion program, the first national study of gambling among college students, and a multi-year study of Internet gamblers among others. Previously, LaBrie served as deputy director of the National Technical Center for Substance Abuse Needs Assessment at HMS where he worked on instrumentation and research procedures to measure need for substance abuse treatment throughout the nation. |
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Philippe joined LivePerson as the Chief Web Officer of HumanClick, where he established US operations and spearheaded web and marketing activities that made HumanClick the leading Live Customer Service application on the Internet.
Philippe began his involvement with the Internet when he joined Synon (now owned by Computer Associates) and managed their development of Internet Services including an advanced intranet and a highly interactive Web site. From there, he founded Langonline, an Internet consultancy firm whose clients included National Semiconductor, Tektronics and the University of San Francisco. He also co-founded a profitable retail wine Web site with operations in Europe and North America.
Philippe holds an Engineering degree from the Université de Technologie in Compiègne, France and an MBA from ENPC Paris. |
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Paul Lauzon is vice president and managing director of Ipsos’ lottery and gaming group. For the past nine years with Ipsos, Paul has been responsible for a variety of customized quantitative research programs for various state and provincial lotteries in as well as a number of online gambling clients. He has worked extensively on segmentation studies, segment tracking, corporate image, customer satisfaction and evaluation studies, as well as product testing campaigns using advanced analytics such as discrete choice modeling, paired-choice analysis, and different segmentation algorithms.
Paul holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Calgary.
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Mr. Lazarus received his law degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1965, was admitted to the Quebec Bar of the Province of Quebec on January 16th, 1967, and founded the law firm of LAZARUS, CHARBONNEAU, where he has practiced law since 1967. He is a Governor of the Bar of the Province of Quebec.
He has been a practicing gaming Attorney and has acted as legal counsel to approximately twenty (20) casino properties and gaming companies located in Canada, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Atlantic City, New Jersey and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mr. Lazarus is the only Canadian gaming lawyer who has been appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Association of Gaming Attorneys ("I.A.G.A."), based in Las Vegas, Nevada, since September of 1993, was named "General Counsel" of IAGA in November, 2001, and President of "IAGA" in 2004 – 2005. He has occupied the position of past President of "IAGA", effective October 31st, 2005.
He was appointed by the Quebec Cabinet to the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Société de développement industriel du Québec (S.D.I.) (now "Investissement Québec"), where he served for approximately six (6) years.
He was appointed on September 30th, 2004 as "Chair" of the "Gaming Law Committee" of the "American Bar Association". |
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Robin Le Prevost, a seasoned Business Development Manager was born and bred in Guernsey one of the British Channel Islands. Having spent a significant part of his early working life living and working in both the UK and France, Robin returned to the Channel Islands to work in the booming finance industry. Feeling the need to stretch himself in the wider world of commerce Robin then spent the next several years working with two new and highly successful business start-ups. Robin subsequently joined the local government owned Guernsey Telecoms 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 his primary responsibilities encompassed utilising the latest technologies and integrating them in to the commercial world with a particular emphasis on attracting new business and industries to the offshore environment in the Channel Islands, of which Guernsey and Alderney are a part.
The establishment of Alderney as a well respected offshore jurisdiction for eGambling was a particular interest for Robin and his detailed understanding of that commercial world allied with his technical and fiscal skills helps him to add value to Alderney’s proposition
Robin left Cable and Wireless in 2005 and now represents the interests of the Government of Alderney in promoting that Island as the leading Jurisdiction in the EGambling sector and to provide advice and assistance to operators wishing to establish their businesses as Alderney EGambling Licensees.
Married with two children Robin enjoys competitive yacht racing and has enjoyed success locally, nationally and at a European level.
Contact Details:
Robin Le Prevost
Head of E-Commerce Development for The States of Alderney
info@AlderneyGambling.com
Mobile: +447781109809
www.AlderneyGambling.com
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Mr. Leyden is the president of the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) in Washington, DC. A seasoned litigator in federal and state courts, Ed currently serves as Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association (ABA), Section of Taxation, and the Committee on Employment Taxes. Ed is also a Contract Advisor for the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). Ed is a graduate of Drexel University, and earned his law degrees at the University of Baltimore and Georgetown University. |
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Michael Lipton established the firm of Elkind & Lipton LLP in 1970 where he is Senior Partner and Chair of the firm’s Gaming Law Practice Group. He has served as senior counsel on several gaming law matters including advising on Requests for Proposals from government to operate commercial and charitable casinos and advising applicants who seek registration with the various Gaming Commissions throughout Canada. He regularly represents governments, gaming equipment suppliers, racetracks, casinos, software manufacturers and pari-mutuel operators in all aspects of gaming law.
He acts as senior counsel in advising gaming license holders throughout North America on gaming compliance and policy issues as well as advising provincial governments, lottery corporations, charitable organizations and public and private corporations in respect to the gaming provisions of the Canadian Criminal Code. Michael is counsel to the Ontario Charitable Gaming Association and has counseled the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario on Canada’s new "Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act".
In 2008, Michael was recognized by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Canada and by Chambers Global for his expertise in gaming law. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Gaming Law Review and World Online Gambling Law Report. He has authored many articles on gaming law which have been published in several leading international and national publications and delivered papers at numerous gaming law conferences throughout the world.
Michael is a founding member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and its immediate past President. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, American Bar Association and the International Association of Gaming Attorneys.
He was educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School and called to the Bar of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) with honours in 1967. He was appointed as a Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of Ontario in 1967 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979. He is certified as a specialist in civil litigation by the Law Society. He is also a member of the Bar of New York State. Michael has been awarded the Medal of Service by the City of Toronto and the Commemorative Medal for the 125 Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada by the Government of Canada.
Michael can be reached at:
Elkind & Lipton LLP
One Queen Street East
Suite 1900
Toronto, Canada M5C 2W6
Tel: O - 416 367 0871
M - 416 528 1285
Fax: 416-367 9388
Email:mdliptonqc@aol.com
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Having graduated in Law from the University of Dundee (UK) in 2002 and from the University of Leiden (the Netherlands) with a LL.M in European Community Law (cum laude) Alan proceeded to complete an internship within the Directorate General Internal Market and Services of the European Commission. Alan is currently a PhD candidate at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) at the University of Tilburg (the Netherlands). His research considers the regulation of gambling within the European Union; specifically concentrating upon whether there should be European gambling legislation and whether anything can be learnt from the liberalisation processes which other sectors have undergone at the European level. |
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Mark Mendel has been practicing law for over 25 years, primarily in the areas of securities, public and private finance, venture capital and international trade.
In 2003, he commenced representation of the government of Antigua and Barbuda in its landmark case against the United States at the World Trade Organisation over Internet gambling. Over the course of this ongoing representation, Mr Mendel has gained unique expertise in global and American remote gaming legal issues. An American licenced lawyer, Mr Mendel lives in County Cork, Ireland. |
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Claire Milne is a Senior Associate in the Commercial Department with Dickinson Cruickshank Advocates specialising in e-Business and Information Technology and Intellectual Property. She is speaking as a representative of the Isle of Man Government, Department of Trade & Industry, e-Gaming Development
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Jon Moss is an industry veteran having worked in the business for 10 years. Jon started as a director with Access Gaming Systems in Australia, as a director with WagerLogic (the CryptoLogic licensing subsidiary) and also as a director with World Gaming. Jon has also run his own e-gaming consultancy working with major international clients. Jon brings his extensive experience in e-gaming to assist in successful transactions for our buying and selling clients. |
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Leigh Nissim joined St. Minver in June 2005 as Managing Director of St Minver (UK), responsible for growing the profitability of the UK business and developing relationships with key partners, including Yahoo!, Virgin, Littlewoods, InterCasino and Poker Heaven. He is now responsible for sales and marketing account management for St Minver across Europe. In the last 3 years, Leigh has played a key role in growing the revenue and profitability of St Minver to the point that it was acquired by GTECH, the global lottery services provider, in April 2008.
This growth has been achieved through expansion in to new European markets, cutting-edge CRM, the launches of notable new partners including Yahoo! Poker and the introduction of new games with Orbis, Parlay and other providers. He has also been responsible for relaunching St Minver’s casino product, built and relocated the team to central London, introduced new email marketing software and migrated the business’ websites to a new content management system.
Before St Minver he was the Chief Operating Officer of Vitesse Media Plc, an AIM listed publishing company. In this role he oversaw a strong increase in sales and was directly responsible for the integration of an acquired events company and relaunching the company's online portfolio of websites.
Prior to this he was CEO of BusinessesForSale.com where he raised £1.7m of seed capital in February 2000. Leigh continued to build the business to deliver sustained profitability. This was achieved through paid-for online subscription services in the UK and US, the launch of FranchiseSales.com, paid events and white label partnerships with FT.com, ThisIsMoney, TimesOnline, the Telegraph and other quality business websites. His past experience includes management consultancy with Deloitte & Touche and a Corporate Finance Executive with Lloyds' of London. He is also the non-executive Chairman of WorkingMums.co.uk. |
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A partner in Jeffrey Green Russell's Company and Commercial department, Nick Nocton specialises in gaming and betting law, acting for a number of the
world's leading online and terrestrial gambling companies.
Nick is a regular speaker at international gambling conferences and a regular contributor to leading trade publications, including World Online
Gambling Law Report, e-Gaming Review and iGaming Business. Nick is an active member of the Remote Gambling Association and the Society for the
Study of Gambling and a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law.
Nick Nocton can be contacted on +44 207 339 7000 or njn@jgrlaw.co.uk. |
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Henrik is working as an attorney at LETT's office in Kolding and is a part of the corporate practice.
Henrik is educated at the University of Copenhagen, and holds an LL.M. in international business law from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Before Henrik started with LETT, he worked with Danders & More and Magnusson Law Firm in Copenhagen for several years. Henrik has also worked internationally, as he started his career working for Höller Rechtsanwälte in Bonn, Germany.
Because of his background and through advising international and in particular German companies on various issues of commercial and corporate law, Henrik is very internationally focused, and has a great deal of experience with the challenges, legal as well as cultural and commercial, an international business faces when starting up in an new jurisdiction. As a leading Danish specialist in gaming law, Henrik is a member of the organization International Masters of Gaming Law, and he speaks at international conferences on gaming law related issues at a regular basis.
Henrik participated as a student in the 8th Wilhelm C. Vis International Arbitration Moot in 2001 for the University of Copenhagen, and Henrik has functioned as an arbitrator at the competition since 2004. Further, Henrik is now one of the coaches of the Vis Moot team of University of Southern Denmark.
Besides his work at LETT, Henrik is on the board of the Danish Association of Attorneys and Assistant Attorneys in Denmark (FAAF).
Memberships:
The Danish German Industry and Trade Association
International Masters of Gaming Law
The Australian Law Society
Danes Abroad Business Group Online
Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit
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Fernando Ors is the Group CDO of Codere, one of the principal gambling operators in South America and Europe, since 2001. Mr. Ors is also President of Savia Consulting, firm specialized on Corporate Development. Has also worked as COO and other Senior responsabilities at several multinationals in Europe, Asia and America and worked as Strategy Consultant at Accenture. Mr. Ors holds a degree in business and economics, an MBA from IESE, a Master in Finance from CEF, and a Master in Corporate Coaching from Colorado University.
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Mr. Owens is a California attorney specializing in the law of Internet and interactive gaming , and related issues 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, second edition due 2008), as well numerous other articles. He currently serves on the Editorial board of Gaming Law Review magazine.
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Andrew Parmentier is the group head of FBR's Washington policy analysis group, specializing in the financial services and healthcare industries, as well as in a range of event-driven legislative and regulatory issues such as asbestos reform and Internet gaming regulation. A trained economist and veteran political operative, Mr. Parmentier provides investors with timely analysis of the ways that economic, regulatory, and legislative trends and events affect market sectors and stocks.
Recent research includes analysis of the 2006 Congressional election and its impact on the financial services industry, online gambling legislation, as well as credit rating reform legislation.
On Capitol Hill, Mr. Parmentier served with the House Banking and Financial Services Committee and worked as an aide to House Majority Leader Richard K. Armey.
He received his M.A. in applied economics from The Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the University of Oregon. Mr.
Parmentier is frequently invited to share his analyses on CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg Television, as well as in print outlets such as Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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Suzette Parmley is an Inquirer business reporter who has tracked the gambling industry for the last four years, particularly the changes in Atlantic City in preparation for the arrival of slots in Pennsylvania. She covered the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton for 4 1/2 years and the Bush campaign in Pennsylvania in 2004.
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Ms. Peckham's practice focuses on intellectual property counseling and enforcement, with a concentration on strategic acquisition and maintenance of domestic and international intellectual property assets, including trademark and copyright protection, privacy, data protection and information law issues. Ms. Peckham’s industry focus ranges from high technology -- particularly computer software and internet-related issues, including computer and internet gaming issues -- to traditional bricks and mortar companies and financial services institutions. Her litigation experience includes trademark, patent, copyright, counterfeiting and general commercial disputes. Ms. Peckham is also an adjunct professor of law at Boston College Law School, is an active member of the International Trademark Association and serves on the Editorial Board of The Trademark Reporter®.
Prior to joining K&L Gates, Ms. Peckham was a partner in the Patent and Intellectual Property Practice Group at Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP. |
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For the past 10 years Gian Perroni has been involved in the online gaming sector, working primarily in marketing and promotion. Gian spent 4 years with the Absolute Poker organization, first as their Director of Marketing, and then as the VP of Operations. During this period Gian worked with the product development team, as well as operating all aspects of the poker room front end. Prior to joining the Absolute team, Gian directed various marketing campaigns for many of the largest casinos, bingo operations and sports books internationally, both online and through traditional media, including writing and producing many successful television campaigns. Gian now concentrates on affiliate recruitment and management through his company CanAffco.com, as well as all aspects of player acquisition, conversion and retention.
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Marcel is the CEO for Cellectivity, a leading UK mobile e-commerce provider specialising in mobile betting and gambling applications. Cellectivity’s prime product Bet2Go is the leading mobile odds comparison and sportsbetting application in the UK. In addition, the company develops applications on behalf of large online casino operators and manages the mobile gaming and gambling portals on behalf of three of the 5 UK mobile operators. He has a passion for providing a great user experience and believes that mobile will be the next frontier to conquer for the online gambling operators.
Marcel worked extensively with early stage and fast-growing enterprises, particularly in the area of technology and media. Marcel previously held Board level roles at Vizuri, a fast-growing UK IT risk management services provider, at the BBC in a now no longer existing IP commercialisation subsidiary and at GorillaPark, one of the early leaders in the European incubator market, and which invested in early stage technology and media companies across Europe.
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Christine Reilly was appointed the first executive director of the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders at Harvard Medical School’s Division on Addictions in 2000. She administers the Institute’s research programs and coordinates educational activities such as the annual NCRG Conference on Gambling and Addiction and EMERGE (Executive, Management, and Employee Responsible Gaming Education). Previously, Reilly served as the first executive director of the National Center for Responsible Gaming and was executive director of the Missouri Humanities Council for eight years. |
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Professor I. Nelson Rose is an internationally known scholar, author and public speaker, and is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on gaming law.
Prof. Rose is best known for his internationally syndicated column and 1986 landmark book, "GAMBLING AND THE LAW®." He is the co-author of INTERNET GAMING LAW, BLACKJACK AND THE LAW, and the first casebook on the subject, GAMING LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (LexisNexis). Prof. Rose is co-editor-in-chief of the Gaming Law Review.
Harvard Law School educated, Prof. Rose is a consultant to governments and industry. He has testified as an expert witness in administrative, civil and criminal cases throughout the United States, in Australia and New Zealand, including the first NAFTA tribunal on gaming issues. Prof. Rose has acted as a consultant to major law firms, international corporations, licensed casinos, Indian tribes, and local, state and national governments, including the province of Ontario, the states of Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, and the federal governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
With the rising interest in gambling throughout the world, Prof. Rose has addressed such diverse groups as the National Conference of State Legislatures, Congress of State Lotteries of Europe and the National Academy of Sciences. He has taught classes on gaming law to the F.B.I., at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Sun Yat-sen University in China, the Universidad de Cantabria in Spain, Université de Toulouse in France, University of Macau, and as a Visiting Scholar for the University of Nevada-Reno's Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming. Prof. Rose has presented scholarly papers on gambling in Nevada, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Australia, Antigua, Portugal, Italy, Argentina and the Czech Republic.
Prof. Rose can be reached through Whittier Law School, or his website: www.GAMBLINGANDTHELAW.com.
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With over seven years experience in online gaming, Richard has worked on casinos, fixed-odds games, football pools, poker, exchange and more. After five years at BettingCorp (OpenTV), Richard moved to run all of Two Way TV's gambling products, rolling out multiple platforms and working with key media partners like The Sun, Teletext, Channel 4, and NTL. As product development manager at Endemol Gaming, his role includes work on existing formats, new products and business development. |
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