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Complete list of Lottery Industry Hall of Fame members.
(Listed alphabetically by last name. Last updated, September 2019)

GERALD AUBIN
Executive Director, Rhode Island Lottery, USA

CONSTANTINOS ANTONOPOULOS
Former Chief Executive Officer, INTRALOT SA, Greece


DAVID BARDEN
President & Chief Executive Officer, New Mexico Lottery; President, Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) ​

RALPH BATCH
Former Director of the New Jersey, Illinois, and Delaware Lotteries, USA

RAY BATES
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Lottery and Honorary Chairman of the European Lotteries Association, Ireland

WILLIAM BEHM
Former Senior Vice President, Scientific Games Corp., USA

CHRISTOPHE BLANCHARD-DIGNAC
Former President & Chief Executive Officer, La Francaise des Jeux, France 

DANIEL BOWER
Co-founder and former President & Chairman of Scientific Games, Inc., USA

DORIS & DUANE BURKE
Founders of Public Gaming Research Institute, USA 

MICHELLE CARINCI
Chief Executive Officer of Lottotech, operator of the Mauritius Lottery, Mauritius

MIKE CHAMBRELLO
Former Chief Executive Officer of North America Lottery, IGT, USA 

HENRY CHAN
Former Executive Director, Betting, The Hong Kong Jockey Club, HK  

MICHAEL CONFORTI
President, Global Strategic Accounts & Corp. Dev., Scientific Games Corp., USA
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MARGARET R. DEFRANCISCO
Senior Advisor to the CEO, Pollard Banknote Ltd., USA

THOMAS DELACENSERIE
Former Director, Kentucky and Florida Lotteries, USA


ALAN ELAND
Former Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of North America, GTECH, USA

​YOUNES EL MECHRAFI
Chief Executive Officer, Sports Lottery Morocco (MDJS);  Morocco


LUCA ESPOCITO, Executive Director, World Lottery Association; General Secretary of the Global Lottery Monitoring System(GLMS)

WILLIAM FOX
Former Regional Vice President Sales, Scientific Games Corp., USA

DAVID GALE
Executive Director, North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, USA 


LUIS ALBERTO GAMA HERNANDEZ
National Director, Lotteries and Pools of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay President, CIBELAE and Member of the World Lottery Association Executive Committee, Uruguay

ALICE GARLAND, Former Executive Director, North Carolina Education Lottery, USA

JOSEPH S. (JAY) GENDRON
Chief Operating Officer, Global Lottery, IGT USA


ROMANA GIRANDON
President & Chief Executive Officer, Loterija Slovenije (Slovenian National Lottery);  2nd Vice President of European Lotteries

ARCH GLEASON
Former President & Chief Executive Officer of the Kentucky Lottery Corporation, USA 
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GORDON GRAVES
Founder and former chairman Multi-Media Games, USA 

GARY GRIEF
Executive Director of the Texas Lottery Commission, USA

DERMOT GRIFFIN
former Chief Executive, Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI), Operator of the Irish National Lottery, Ireland
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SCOTT GUNN     

Senior Vice President, Corporate Public Affairs, IGT

JIM HAYNES
Former Director of the Nebraska Lottery, USA 

HANSJORG HOLTKEMEIER
Managing Director and Member of the Board, Deutsche Klassenlotterie, Berlin (DKLB);
President of the European Lottery Association (EL), Germany

ROSE J. HUDSON
President & Chief Executive Officer, Louisiana Lottery Corporation Lotteries; USA

BILL HUNTLEY
Former Executive Vice President, Group Chief Executive of Gaming, Scientific Games, USA 

JEAN JORGENSEN
Former Executive Director of the World Lottery Association (WLA)

DR. IOANNIS N. KATAKIS
Former Head of Lottery Gaming, Win Systems, Spain

JIM KENNEDY
Former Chairman, Lottery, Scientific Games Corporation, USA 

CHUCK KLINE
Former Senior Vice President, Licensing, Scientific Games Corporation, USA

JOHN KOZA
Co-founder and former Chairman & CEO of Scientific Games, Inc., USA

JEAN MARC LAFAILLE
Former President of Loto-Quebec, Canada 

LOTHAR LAMMERS
Former Managing Director of German Lottery, co-inventor of modern Loto games, Germany

CONNIE LAVERTY O’CONNOR
Former Chief Customer Officer, IGT, USA 

WAYNE LEMONS
Former Director, Delaware Lottery, USA 

DATO LAWRENCE LIM SWEE LIN
Chief Executive Officer, Magnum Group, Malaysia, Chair, Asia-Pacific Lottery Association (APLA), Malaysia

NORMAN LINGLE
Executive Director, South Dakota Lottery, USA

TOM LITTLE
Former President & Chief Executive Officer, INTRALOT, USA 

BERNADETTE LOBJOIS
Former Secretary General, European Lotteries Association (EL), Switzerland 

DAVID LOEB
former President of the Western Canada Lottery Corporation (WCLC), Canada

VICTOR MARKOWICZ
Co-founder and former co-chairman of GTECH Corporation, USA 

MARZIA MASTROGIACOMO
Former Senior Vice President Lotteries, Lottomatica S.p.A., Italy


PAT MCHUGH    
Chief Executive Officer, Scientific Games

CHARLES MCINTYRE
Executive Director, New Hampshire Lottery


GORDON MEDENICA     
Former Director of Maryland and New York Lotteries

MARK MICHALKO
Executive Director, North Carolina Education Lottery, USA

STAVROS A. MICHAEL
Director Cyprus Government Lottery, Cyprus

JEAN-LUC MONER-BANET
General Director, Société de la Loterie de la Suisse Romande, Switzerland 
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WENDY MONTGOMERY
Senior Vice President, Global Brand, Marketing and Communications,  IGT, USA

JOHN MUSGRAVE
Former Director of the West Virginia Lottery, USA  

TAN SOO NAN
Former Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Pools (Private) Limited, Singapore

RISTO NIEMINEN
Former Chief Executive Officer of Veikkaus Oy, Finland 

REIDAR NORDBY JR.  
Former Chief Executive Officer Norsk Tipping, the Norwegian National Lottery, Norway

TIM NYMAN
Former key executive with GTECH, USA

JIM O'BRIEN
Former Strategic Marketing Vice-President, Scientific Games Corporation, USA

PAULA OTTO
Former Executive Director of the Virginia Lottery, USA

JAYMIN PATEL
Former President & Chief Executive Officer, GTECH Corp., USA 


REBECCA PAUL
Chief Executive Officer of the Tennessee Education Lottery Corp.;
President of the World Lottery Association USA

DOUGLAS E. POLLARD
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Pollard Banknote Limited, Canada


JOHN POLLARD    
Co-Chief Executive Officer,  Pollard Banknote Limited

ED POWERS
Former director of the New Hampshire Lottery, the first U.S. lottery, USA 

THIERRY PUJOL
Former Director of Sport Integrity FDJ, France and Chairman of WLA SRMC, France
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NIGEL RAILTON        
Chief Executive Officer, Camelot UK. Senior Vice President, World Lottery Association (WLA)

MAY SCHEVE REARDON
Vice President, Government Relations, Pollard Banknote; Former Executive Director, Missouri Lottery, USA

JUNE ROACHE
Former Chief Executive of the Lotteries Commission of South Australia (SA Lotteries), Australia 

LYNNE ROITER
General Secretary of the World Lottery Association (WLA), Former President & CEO Loto-Québec, Canada 

STEVE SAFERIN
Founder of MDI;  Former President, Properties,  Chief Creative Officer  Scientific Games, USA

OLLI SAREKOSKI
Chief Executive Officer, Veikkaus, Finland

CARLA SCHAEFER
Regional Vice President, Scientific Games, Inc., USA 
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JOHN SCHULZ
Senior Vice President, Instant Products and Partner Services, Scientific Games, USA

TOM SHAHEEN
Former President & CEO, Mississippi Lottery, USA
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GUY SIMONIS
Former President of the British Columbia and Western Canada Lotteries; Founding President of the WLA, Canada 

GUY SNOWDEN
Co-founder and former CEO of GTECH Corporation, USA 

DR. EDWARD STANEK
Former CEO of the Iowa Lottery Authority, USA 

DON STANFORD
Former Chief Innovation Officer at  IGT, USA 

FRIEDRICH STICKLER
Former Managing Director of Austrian Lotteries, Honorary President of the European Lottery Association, Austria 

JAN STEWART
Former Chief Executive Officer of LotteryWest, Australia

CHARLES FROST STRUTT
Former Executive Director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, USA 

DREW SVITKO
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Lottery; Chair of the Powerball Group

​DONALD R. SWEITZER

Former Chairman, IGT Corporation, USA

J. BRET TOYNE
Executive Director, Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), USA

CAL TIGNER
Founder of Take-A-Ticket, USA

DIANNE THOMPSON
Former Chief Executive Officer of Camelot Group – Operator of the UK National Lottery, United Kingdom 

BILL THORBURN
Former Group Executive - Lotteries (International) at Tatts Group, Australia

SUE VAN DER MERWE
Managing Director, The Lottery Company, Australia

PHILIPPE VLAEMMINCK
Managing Partner,  Vlaemminck.law, Belgium

JOHN WALSH
Former Senior Vice President, Global Sales & Services, Scientific Games Corp., USA 

MATTHEW WHALEN
Sr. VP, North America Operations at IGT, USA

LORNE WEIL
Chairman, Inspired Entertainment, Inc. USA

JENNIFER D. WESTBURY
Executive Vice President, Sales & Customer Development, Pollard Banknote, Canada  
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ANGELA WONG
Vice President of Global Lottery Solutions, Gaming Laboratories International (GLI)  USA

BISHOP WOOSLEY   
Lottery Industry Consultant and former Director, Arkansas Lottery


DR. WINFRIED WORTMANN
Former Managing Director of West Deutsche Lottery, Germany  
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