IAGR2023 session:
Panel: Staying ahead of the online curve: Managing shifting regulatory challenges and opportunities
About Kirsten:
An 18-year veteran of the global gaming industry, Kirsten Clark has extensive international executive management, marketing, commercialization and strategic planning experience. Through her advisory company, K Clark Consulting (KCC), she provides operational and tactical guidance to numerous gaming companies and associations, including serving as Executive Director of the International Association of Gaming Advisors (IAGA), a 42-year-old non-profit association of senior executives representing the industry’s leading operators, manufacturers, advisors, educators and regulators.
Kirsten is also the founder of mitig8risk, a company that develops and licenses bespoke training programs that help companies reduce their risk and liability across multiple areas of vulnerability, including human trafficking, financial crime and more.
Prior to founding KCC, Clark was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer-Asia for Gaming Partners International (Formerly NASDAQ: GPIC, now part of Angel Group), where she managed the company’s day-to-day business operations throughout Asia Pac while simultaneously overseeing GPIC’s global marketing and product/project management divisions. During her tenure at GPIC, she was directly responsible for managing Asia Pacific operations, including staff, distributors, sales agents and product development partners, establishing and maintaining regulator relationships, identifying and meeting annual revenue goals, collaborating with core customers on new product development and working with the company’s development and manufacturing teams to meet customer expectations.
Her gaming industry experience also includes broad strategic marketing, investor and public relations experience for Shuffle Master, Inc. (previously NASDAQ: SHFL, now part of Light and Wonder), where she served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for several years.