Games testing compliance and auditing specialist NMi has hired Ali Heydary as its Vancouver laboratory manager.

Heydary possesses a background in project management for tribal gaming development, as well as compliance testing for online, lottery and land-based gaming in multiple international jurisdictions.

He will head up the firm’s Vancouver lab, which has doubled in size since its opening last year.

NMI business development manager Julian Borg-Barthet said: “We are incredibly happy to bring someone as experienced as Ali to our North American team.

“With our latest contract with Williams Interactive, and being selected as one of the vendors for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC), NMI’s efforts in North America are only going to get busier.”