Gambling Insider Magazine


JAN FEB 2024

Editor's Letter

  A happy – and productive – New Year to all our readers! Working in the gambling industry, we can all safely say 2024 will bring more change, more challenges, but also more growth, more technological evolution and, ultimately, greater revenue generation. As is tradition, Gambling Insider is kicking the year off with our famous CEO Special, the most prestigious issue of the year. And, this edition, we are delighted to bring you a particularly operator-heavy focus.
  That’s a common theme across our platforms at the moment, with BetMGM CEO Adam Greenblatt being this year’s first guest on our Huddle video series, and this magazine as a whole also featuring articles from Sky Bet, William Hill and more.
  Within our CEO Special specifically, we present you some of the sector’s biggest operators in the form of Betfred, MGM China, Metropolitan Gaming, Jade Entertainment and Gaming, and also Tom Waterhouse – who used to run William Hill Australia.
  Each has their own unique story to tell, and that’s not forgetting Cathy Judd-Stein – who completes our list by adding a different perspective: that of the regulator, as Chair of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. Judd-Stein, it has to be said, might just be the nicest person I have ever interviewed, with all due respect to everyone else I’ve spoken to in my career. But do not mistake her humility and kindness for weakness; each of our CEO Special interviewees is tough, has faced numerous obstacles in their career and is performing at the very highest level of their respective field.
  We are honoured to include Hubert Wang, MGM China President & COO, as well as Joanne Whittaker, the leader of a tier-one UK operator (with designs on the US and South Africa, too). I was fascinated by Wang’s emphasis on the importance of listening to his staff – and equally so with Whittaker’s stance that heated debates and disagreements are a real positive for a business trying to find the right solution moving forward.
  Waterhouse’s intimate knowledge of Australian gaming made picking his brain a very rewarding process indeed – and that’s an interview you can also watch in Huddle form.
  As for Jade Gaming’s Joe Pisano, he ran Judd-Stein close for nicest interviewee ever! Speaking to him – and on this occasion, his dog Duke too – is always a pleasure.
  Finally, Michael Silberling was a gracious host as we sat down together at the Metropolitan Casino Mayfair. He surprised me with his revelation that he is a Dungeons and Dragons fan, along with a funny story about meeting the Late Queen Elizabeth II.
  So now that you’ve found our January/February edition, either online or at the last ever ICE show in London, I promise you’ll learn something from each and every CEO interview. And I can also promise there is no better way to prepare for what 2024 has in store for the industry!

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