PUBLIC GAMING RESEARCH INSTITUTE'S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS

It is with great pleasure that PGRI announces that Connie Laverty O'Connor is being honored with the 2008 Major Peter J. O'Connell Lottery Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.  Connie Laverty O'Connor is one of the most experienced, respected and distinguished lottery executives in the world.  Please click here to read more.  Connie's induction ceremony will take place in Charleston, SC during SMART-TECH 2008. 



Public Gaming Research Institute's

 Maj Peter J. O’Connell LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS

CURRENTLY IN OFFICE

 
David Gale Arch Gleason Rebecca Hargrove Jim Scroggins Charles Frost Strutt  
 

George Andersen - Deceased - Former Director, Minnesota Lottery, US

Ralph Batch - Deceased - Former Director, NJ, IL & DE Lotteries, US

Ray Bates - Former National Lottery Director, Irish Lottery, IRELAND

Daniel Bower - Co-founder of Scientific Games; , US

David Gale - Executive Director of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, US

Arch Gleason - President, Kentucky Lottery Corporation, US

James Hosker - Former Executive Director, Massachusetts Lottery + GTECH Executive, US

Cluny Macpherson - Former President, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, CANADA

Garth Manness - Former President, Ontario Lottery Corporation, CANADA

Reidar Nordby Jr. - Former President &CEO, Norsk Tipping, NORWAY

Major Peter J. O-Connell - Former Executive Director, RI Lottery, US

Rebecca Paul -- President & CEO, Tennessee Education Lottery, US

Vic Poleschuk, Former President and CEO of British Columbia Lottery Corp, CANADA

Edward Powers - Deceased - Director of First Modern US Lottery, New Hampshire, US

Jim Scroggins - Director of the Oklahoma Lottery, US

Guy Simonis - Former President, British Columbia, CANADA

Dr. Edward Stanek - Former President & CEO, Iowa Lottery Authority, US

Charles Frost Strutt - Executive Director, MUSL, US

James Wimsatt - Former Executive Director, New Hampshire Lottery Commission, US

*Stephen Wynn - CEO, Wynn Resorts, Nevasa, US

Jerome Young - Deceased -Vice President, IGT, US

Mark Zamarripa - Former Director, Colorado Lottery, US

Greg Ziemak - Former Director, Connecticut and Kansas Lottery