BOB BOYLE is a Senior Manager at EY with over 15 years of professional experience leading compliance work for digital and land-based casinos and sports books globally. Bob’s work focuses on regulatory compliance topics including financial crimes, fraud and responsible gaming. Bob has led teams in performing compliance program assessments, risk assessments, transactional and regulatory filing reviews, assisting counsel for clients in responding to investigations and inquiries and has served as an expert witness on gaming compliance matters.

GREG BROWER is a shareholder in the law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.  His practice focused on litigation, government investigations, gaming regulatory matters, and government relations. He recently rejoined Brownstein after three years as the Chief Global Compliance Officer at Wynn Resorts where he oversaw the company’s compliance policies and programs in the U.S. and Macau. He previously served in several senior government roles including Assistant Director and Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, Inspector General for the U.S. Government Publishing Office, and as an elected member of the Nevada Legislature.  

VASILIOS CHRISOS, a Principal with PwC's Financial Crimes Unit, has 20+ years experience assisting companies on all aspects of financial crime compliance, AML and sanctions matters. He has assisted casino operators with implementing comprehensive, risk-based AML and sanctions compliance programs, including executing enhanced due diligence for higher-risk patrons and investigating suspicious levels of play. He serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.

JON DUFFY is Senior Vice President, Corporate Assurance & Regulatory Affairs at Genting Casinos UK.  Jon is responsible for the Compliance, Security, Surveillance, Anti-Money Laundering and Safer Gambling Departments for Genting UK’s 30+ land-based Casinos.  Jon holds diplomas in both Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime prevention, is a member of the Audit Committee for Genting UK, a trustee of the International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA) and a member of the International Compliance Associations Global Practitioner Advisory board.

AMY ELDER has extensive experience in all aspects of gaming law. Ms. Elder represents and advises privately held and publicly-held casino operators, gaming-related manufacturers, casino management companies, investors, developers, commercial lenders and private equity firms in a wide range of gaming matters, including licensure, regulatory compliance, administrative hearings, financing and project development. Her clients include the largest gaming operators and gaming equipment manufacturers in the casino industry. 

TRACEY ELKERTON is Chief Compliance Officer for the Aristocrat Group and has more than 20 years’ experience in gaming industry compliance.  In this role her responsibilities include corporate and key person licensing, regulatory compliance, product compliance, corporate governance and and non-gaming compliance frameworks such as Anti-Bribery and Corruption and AML.

C.J. FISHER is a partner in the Atlantic City office of Fox Rothschild LLP. He advises individuals and entities in a wide range of gaming licensing, regulatory and compliance matters, and has represented clients before various gaming regulatory agencies, including in New Jersey, Massachusetts and New York. He has also successfully represented casino operators in competitive license bids in several domestic and international jurisdictions.

JUSTIN FRANSSEN is an attorney at law and partner at Kalff Katz & Franssen, where he leads the Gaming & gambling Practice Group. His comprehensive advisory and litigation practice regularly deals with sector-specific acquisitions and complex public affairs processes. Prior to his admission to the Dutch Bar, Justin acted as general counsel for a gaming developer in Amsterdam and New York. His career as an attorney at law began at an associate firm of KPMG, where he founded their European Gaming & Entertainment Services Group.

MICHAEL FRIES is Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at Light & Wonder, Inc., a leading cross-platform global games company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Mike is responsible for the day-to-day administration and management of the Compliance Department for the Company’s worldwide Gaming, Social, and iGaming business segments.  Before joining Light & Wonder, Mike was Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc., a regional casino operator.  Mike worked at the Illinois Gaming Board from 2001 to 2010 and was General Counsel from 2005 to 2010.  Mike practiced law in Chicago, Illinois before joining the Gaming Board.

TRAVIS FOLEY is Executive Director, Chief Operations Officer, and Executive Vice President - North America for BMM Testlabs, and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Service Delivery teams in North America and Canada. Most recently he spent over 13 years with the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s Technology Division where he was involved in the creation of regulations and standards for new technologies such as server-based gaming, system supported gaming, and mobile gaming.

WILLIAM GANTZ, a Partner with Duane Morris, is a versatile lead trial lawyer with nationwide experience representing gaming, technology and manufacturing in intellectual property and commercial litigation, including patent infringement, trade secret, consumer class action and appeals. Bill has advised the US igaming industry since 2002 on regulatory, licensing and commercial matters and regularly provides counsel on intellectual property and regulatory compliance matters.

KELLY GASS has over 20 years of professional experience providing financial and business solutions and expertise to companies both domestically and abroad. Having served in numerous interim senior management roles in takeover or troubled asset situations as well as under normal operating conditions, Gass has significant experience liaising with governmental and regulatory authorities in over 35 jurisdictions and is recognized for her extensive expertise in operational, transactional and financial matters.

DR. WULF HAMBACH is one of the founding partners of Hambach & Hambach. He regularly publishes articles in national and international legal media. Furthermore, he is a co-publisher and one of the authors of the legal commentary “Glücks- und Gewinnspielrecht in den Medien” (Gambling and Sweepstakes Law in the Media, C.H. Beck Verlag). Dr. Hambach is a sought-after lecturer at leading international conferences and board adviser of leading internet service companies. 

MARK HEMMERLE is Chief Legal Officer for affiliated fintech companies Koin Payments and Marker Trax since December 2023. With 20+ years of gaming and payments experience, he was General Counsel, Asst. General Manager and General Manager for two casinos under Hyatt (Hotels) Gaming Management Group including Grand Victoria Casino and subsequently opened and ran Indiana Live! Casino in Shelbyville, Indiana. Mark joined Worldpay (formerly Vantiv Gaming Solutions) in 2014 and was instrumental in building out the payments space for lawful gaming and gambling payment transactions, and moved to Shift4 in 2021 to establish their gaming division.. 

JEREMY P. KLEIMAN serves on Saiber's Executive Committee and heads its Gaming Law Practice Group. Jeremy focuses his practice on gaming, regulatory and business law, representing casino operators, gaming equipment suppliers, technology providers and financial institutions involved in the gaming and lottery industries. He specializes in gaming-related corporate, regulatory, licensing and compliance matters, with an emphasis on the online and mobile gaming industry. 

JAMES MAIDA, Esq., is President and CEO of Gaming Laboratories International (GLI®) a global gaming testing and consulting company with 24 locations with more than 1,500 employees. He has testified as an expert witness in numerous gaming cased on both the federal and state level, including appearances before the U.S. Congress. Among his multiple accolades, he has received the New Jersey Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year, received the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association with its prestigious Modern-Day Warrior Award, has been inducted into the AGA Gaming Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Gaming Hall of Fame, and has been named one of the most influential people in gaming.

CHRISTINE MASINO is the Vice President of Regulatory Compliance with IGT. Her responsibilities include global oversight of IGT’s broad license portfolio, as well as focusing on regulatory matters in over 300 North American gaming jurisdictions. With over 15 years’ in the gaming industry, Ms. Masino has experience across multiple areas of gaming, including slot machines and video lottery terminals, casino and central systems, internet and mobile gaming, and sports wagering.

RUI PINTO PROENCA is a partner at MdME, where he heads the firm’s Corporate|Gaming practice. Rui regularly acts for industry investors, casino operators, equipment manufacturers and gaming promoters in key regional projects. He also assists issuers, sponsors and underwriters in relation to listings of Macau gaming interests with overseas capital markets. Rui has been actively assisting sector players and governments in emerging gaming jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region. 

LORETTA A. TUELL is the managing principle at Tuell Law. She has practiced in the arena of federal Indian law and policy in Washington, D.C. for more than 20 years. In September 2017, she relocated to southern California and established Tuell Law. Her practice focuses on American Indian law, governmental law and policy, and gaming matters. In the private legal sector, Loretta was most recently a Partner at the international law firm, Greenberg Traurig, L.L.P.

ALLA SEREBRIANSKAIA joined Asensi Abogados in 2011 and has been a partner of the firm since September 2017. Previously, she worked in house at Indra Sistemas SA, Spain’s premier IT company. Alla graduated in Law at the ESADE Business School (Barcelona) from where she was also awarded a Master’s in Business Law. She specializes in Gaming & Gambling law, is an expert in licensing procedures, regulatory and compliance related both to online and land-based operators. 

EDWARD R. WINKOFSKY is Chair of the Greenberg Traurig Gaming Practice and focuses his practice on gaming regulatory compliance, licensure, and internal investigations. He also advises clients on transactional and general corporate matters. Since joining the firm in 2010, Ed has served as regulatory counsel to licensed gaming industry suppliers and operators, horse tracks, video gaming and on-line providers, lottery providers, tribal licensees, and social gaming operators and investors.