| Dear Members,
In reference to the IAGR Board's call for nominations where the IAGR Board of Trustees announced four available positions including Trustees seeking re-election for their positions, by nomination deadline of Wednesday, September 13, the IAGR Secretary had received four nominations.
As the number of nominees is equal to the number of vacancies, the nominees are automatically confirmed as members of the Board of Trustees effective October 17 (Election date, ref. call for nomination). A ballot election process involving IAGR members will therefore not be necessary.
Their service term will take effect with the upcoming October 2017 Annual Members Meeting in Johannesburg. |
| | Trustees Serving Second & Final Term
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| | Susan Hensel
Director of Licensing
Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board
USA
Susan Hensel is
Director of Licensing for the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board having
previously serving as Acting Director and as a Special Assistant to the Board.
Hensel oversees the licensing of the state’s casinos and other gaming related
companies doing business in the state as well as the employees working in and
supporting the gaming industry.
Hensel is Past
President of the International Association of Gaming Regulators having served
in that position for two terms. She previously served as Vice-President and
Secretary of the association. She also serves on the association’s Board of
Trustees. Hensel is a member of the International Masters of Gaming Law and
International Association of Gaming Advisors. Before joining the Gaming Board,
Hensel worked on gaming implementation issues as a Special Assistant to the
Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue, who is an ex-officio member of the Board.
Previously, Hensel served in executive level positions with Pennsylvania state
government, including serving as an Assistant General Counsel in the Governor's
Office of General Counsel.
Before entering state
government, Hensel was a television news reporter in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Hensel earned her J.D. degree from Widener University Law School in Harrisburg,
where she graduated cum laude from the evening division and was on the staff of
the Law Review. She earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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| Bheki Mlambo
Chief Executive Officer
Mpumalanga Gambling Board
South Africa
Mr. Mlambo holds a
Master’s degree in Business Leadership (MBL) from the University of South
Africa (UNISA). He joined the Mpumalanga Gambling Board in 1998, and has served
in different capacities, including that of Investigations and Compliance Officer,
head of Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer in
2008.
He is currently a Member of
IAGR’s Board of Trustees. He served as Vice President of the Association in
2015 and is the immediate Past President of IAGR. |
| Jerry See
Chief Executive
Casino
Regulatory Authority (CRA)
Singapore
Jerry See is the Chief Executive of the Casino
Regulatory Authority (CRA) of Singapore, the agency responsible for the
regulation of casinos in Singapore. He was on the International Association of
Gaming Regulators (IAGR) Board of Trustees from 2014 – 2017, where he chaired
the Multi-Jurisdictional Business Form Sub-committee from 2014 – early 2017,
and then later assumed position as Chair of the Membership Sub-committee in
2017. Jerry is a career police officer who had held key
appointments such as the Commander of the Police Coast Guard, Training Command
and Director of Manpower in the Singapore Police Force. He was seconded as the
Chief Executive of the Home Team Academy before taking on his current
appointment. |
| Fortune Sekgaphane
Chief Executive Officer
North
West Gambling Board
South Africa
In November 2007, the North
West Gambling Board (South Africa) appointed Mr Fortune Sekgaphane to the
position of Chief Executive Officer, effective from January 2008. Mr Sekgaphane
studied law at the University of the North West (South Africa). He was employed
as a Legal Officer in 1991 by the Consumer Council in the North West Province
(South Africa). He left the Consumer Council of the North West in November
1996, as a Manager for the Education Department. He commenced employment with
the Mpumalanga Gambling Board (South Africa) in 1997, where he served at
various levels over a period of ten (10) years. He was appointed the Acting
Chief Executive Officer of the Mpumalanga Gambling Board in January 2003 and
was subsequently appointed permanently to the same position in January 2004.
During that period, he led a team which introduced Limited Payout Machines for
the first time in South Africa. He served the Mpumalanga Gambling Board for a
period of five (5) years, as a Chief Executive Officer with remarkable results,
until his resignation in November 2007.
He was appointed the Chairperson of the Illegal
Gambling and Technology Committee of the Gaming Regulators of Africa Forum in
Mangoshi (Malawi) in 2007 and in Nairobi (Kenya) in 2008, and has since been re-appointed
to the same position in Limpopo (South Africa) in 2014. He presented papers and
participated in panel discussions at various international conferences, including a paper on
Illegal Gambling and Distribution of Gambling Machines in Africa (Nairobi,
Kenya in July 2008 and Manzini, Swaziland in August 2009) and amongst others, a
panel discussion in Rome (Italy) on Social Responsibility in the gambling
industry. He was elected to the IAGR Board of Trustees in October 2014, in
Philadelphia. |
| | | We appreciate the willingness of these individuals to commit their time to lead IAGR over the next few years. And I look forward to introducing them to our members at the Johannesburg 2017 Conference!
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My best regards,
Dale Fuga
IAGR President
On behalf of the IAGR Board of Trustees |
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