iGB Affiliate Awards

Corey Padveen is a Partner at t2 Marketing International, and the author of Marketing to Millennials for Dummies, as well as a contributing author to Digital Marketing All-in-One for Dummies.

With almost two decades of digital marketing and affiliate experience within the retail, payments and the fast paced iGaming industry, Lee-Ann Johnstone is an award winning digital marketing strategist and affiliate management coach. In 2018 she started AffiliateINSIDER, a Google News approved curated content hub and affiliate marketing agency. She was recently voted one of the Top 10 Most Influential Women in iGaming by IGB Affiliate in 2019 and helps brands implement best practice within their affiliate marketing teams. She runs an exclusive Affiliate Manager Coaching program: AMPP (Affiliate Marketing Performance Program).Lee-Ann’s ethos is all about keeping Affiliate Marketing, Simple.

Ben is the Co-Founder of RB Capital, a specialist M&A and funding brokerage, combining best-in-breed expertise for growth, investment and M&A across gaming, fintech and media verticals. Ben has more than 20 years’ commercial experience across technology and media, of which the last ten have been deeply embedded in the online gambling and blockchain sectors, subsequently Ben sits on a number of advisory boards for Fin-Tech and iGaming companies across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

An iGaming veteran, with a specialty in Affiliate Management, Claire launched her own consultancy business back in 2017 to assist operators with launching and growing their affiliate business within the iGaming space.

Simon Collins is an investor focused on the development and growth of new gaming opportunities. He has a 25-year track record of launching and building valuable iGaming brands. Simon was a co-founder of Foxy Bingo owner Cashcade Ltd prior to its sale to bwin.party for £96m in July 2009, going on to become managing partner of bwin.party-backed investment fund New Game Capital. He then launched mobile gaming start-up Gaming Realms plc with his fellow Cashcade founders. Following the sale of its real-money subsidiary in 2019, he joined News UK as MD, Betting & Gaming, where he oversaw the development and growth of brands including Dream Team, Sun Bingo, and Sun Racing. After departing the role earlier this year he is now working on new opportunities.

Elaine is Affiliate Operations Manager, TAG Media. Elaine has over 14 years’ experience in the iGaming affiliate industry, and has held various positions throughout the years from Affiliate Manager to Head of Affiliates and everything else in between

As an iGaming CRM consultant with20+ years of industry experience, Shahar Attias has helped both startups and publicly traded operators to optimize their Player Retention efforts and Internal Marketing Strategies. Following senior executive roles with 888, Playtech and Pokerstars, he has founded Hybrid Interaction Ltd., the premier online gaming consulting firm, and has held more than 150 successful projects. Among his clients are Hard Rock NJ, Holland Casino, Grand Casino Baden, Horizons Casino, Groupe Barrière, Entain / GVC / BwinParty / Sportingbet / Bet.pt, IGT, William Hill, BetConstruct, Pin-up.ru, EvoPlay, bgo, Win2day, DazzleTag and Platin.

Helen Waltonis founder and CCO of G. She started her career at Unilever and has worked with Boots, Frucor, Tate Britain, PZ Cussons and dozens of other brands. She describes herself as a dealmaker, writer and marketer who enjoys solving problems, trying out ideas and making things happen.

Cara Kerr is Head of European Recruitment – Pentasia. With 20 years in recruitment, Cara brings a wealth of experience working across all non-technical gaming divisions. Her approach is relaxed, informative and honest. She loves learning about the industry, seeing roles evolve and building relationship with clients for the long term. Her niche is senior roles or the hard to fill ones, she loves a challenge.

Kevin Dale has spent the last 20 years in online gaming and runs data and advisory company egamingmonitor.com, which covers 36,000 games from 1,200 suppliers across 1,300 operators. He was previously CEO of online skill gaming company, GAN plc, and also Marketing Director at Betfair, Sportingbet and Eurobet.

Christina Thakor-Rankin is co-founder of the All-in Diversity Initiative, which advocates for a data-driven approach to improving inclusion in gaming, and also runs a consultancy business. Her career in the industry spans 25 years and the whole betting and gambling ecosystem, including land-based, online and mobile gaming. She firmly believes that diversity and inclusion are critical to success in business.

Shona is the Head of Strategic Events for the leading sports betting affiliate Better Collective, where she is creating a series of awards based on data to help consumers find the best bookie for them. With over 15years of experience in the iGaming sector, much of that focussed on the affiliate market, Shona has been responsible for the creation and development of some of the industry’s biggest events, including iGB Live!, LAC, Sports Betting USA and ICE.

Sarafina Wolde Gabriel is VP of Strategy at Paysafe’s Income Access. Sarafina focuses on growing the Income Access brand and driving the evolution of the company's suite of products and services. She has over a decade of digital marketing experience and was recently named as one of iGB’s Top 10 Most Influential Women for 2020.

Cristina is the CTO of BeyondPlay, where she works on bringing social gaming to life in its true sense. Cristina has experience in the management, design, implementation, and quality assurance of complex, high-volume transactional and entertainment platforms and is now deeply entrenched and responsible for the innovation and technology behind the next generation of products. Some of her passions include continuous learning and advocating for women in technology.

Laura Da Silva is the founder and director of DigitalRG.net, a cloud platform specialising in helping companies assess corporate social responsibility, sports integrity and responsible gaming risks and put a plan in place to address them. She is a regular speaker on Corporate Social Responsibility and how companies can do well by doing and being good. With gaming clients on four continents, she reinvests or donates a percentage of the company's profits in environmental or social projects.

Luke Eales is founder and CEO at Seven Star Digital, which operates a number of online gambling comparison sites includingTopRatedCasinos.co.uk, Compare.bet and GamblingDeals.com.

Alessandro Valente is one of the pioneers in the affiliation marketing scenario in Brazil with over a decade of experience. Having started with a couple of websites he formed one of the largest networks of websites promoting gambling in Brazil and Latam.

After a successful M&A he remained a Member of the Board in Super Afiliados, a network of proprietary websites and master affiliate to thousands of publishers.