Lonnie Hamm is Head of Data Science at Kindred Group. The Data Science team develops machine learning driven solutions applied to a variety of areas across Kindred’s business. Prior to Kindred, Lonnie spent 15 years in hands on and leadership roles in trading and investment management across a variety of functions including quantitative analysis, quantitative trading, and technology.
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Apostolos Dousias
Apostolos is the Chief Operating Officer of Betsson Group. He has been working in the gaming industry for the past 10 years in roles relating to customer focused operations. The past 7 years have seen him initially overseeing the Service and Customer Protection areas of Betsson Group while serving since 2014 as Director of Ops and since 2017 as COO with the Payments and AML responsibility amongst other areas.
Jonathan Parke
Jonathan Parke is the director of the consumer research hub ‘Sophro’ which specialises in independent research and education on the topic of gambling behaviour and harm minimisation.
Jonathan has served as principal investigator on a variety of government, industry and research council sponsored research projects most of which focusing on gambling behaviour. In his previous role as Director of Commissioning for the Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) in Great Britain he has helped reshape the gambling research agenda at a national level. In terms of education and training, Dr. Parke has developed, delivered and managed university level courses and corporate training programs in gambling studies over the last decade including some of the world’s first undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs in Gambling Studies at the University of Salford. On an on-going basis, he consults for some of the world’s biggest providers of betting and gaming to develop their responsible gambling policies. His career goal is to impact society by informing political, commercial and clinical activities through ecologically valid gambling research.
Maris Bonello
Maris Bonello currently occupies the role Head of Player Sustainability Research at Kindred. She started as a Risk and Fraud Analyst with Unibet and after receiving her Psychology MSc from the University of Leicester, took on the role of Responsible Gaming Manager. She has a Diploma in Gambling Addiction Counselling and Psychology, and is now reading for her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Mark Griffiths, focusing primarily on the analysis of the early signs of online problem gambling, responsible gaming tools and responsible gaming promotion.
Spyridon Lotsaris
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Steven Armstrong
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Antoine Bonello
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Pierre Tournier
Pierre joined the RGA as Director of Government Relations in August 2015. In his role, Pierre is primary in charge of regulatory developments at national level and represents the association in all the EU members states. Prior to joining the RGA, Pierre worked for 5 years as a consultant at Instinctif Partners in Brussels. As the head of the online gambling practice, Pierre advised and represented a number of online gambling clients, including the RGA, in all their dealings with EU institutions. Pierre holds a LLM in European Law from University College Dublin and a MA in Comparative Law from the University of Toulouse.
Camilla Rosenberg
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Ben Haden
Ben has responsibility for a portfolio which brings together the Commission’s market and social research function, and specialists across the various industry sectors. This includes the associated stakeholder engagement, national and international, with a particular interest in best practice. He also shares the senior collective responsibility to deliver the wider Commission business plan.
Ben arrived at the Commission through the merger with the National Lottery Commission. He had worked in a variety of senior roles within the NLC across Insight, Corporate Affairs and Operations, including Head of Evaluation during the third National Lottery licence competition process.