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EDITORIAL TEAM Editor Tom Washington T: [phone] E: [email protected] Reporter Tom Victor T: [phone] E: [email protected] Reporter Andy Roocroft T: [phone] E: [email protected] Reporter Liam Stoker T: [phone] E: [email protected] Head of Content, Pageant Gaming Media Alun Bowden T: [phone] E: [email protected] PRODUCTION Head of production Claudia Honerjager E: [email protected] Art editor, eGR Toni Giddings E: [email protected] Sub-editors Rachel Kurz?eld Eleanor Stanley Luke Tuchscherer COMMERCIAL Group commercial manager Ben Robinson T: [phone] E: [email protected] Commercial manager Sam Compagnoni T: [phone] E: [email protected] Publishing account manager Debbie Robson T: [phone] E: [email protected] Publishing account manager Jonathan Vintner T: [phone] E: [email protected] Group head of content Gwyn Roberts CEO Charlie Kerr Circulation manager Fay Muddle Content sales Emmanuel Nettey T: [phone] E: [email protected] [E D I T O R ' S LETTER ] eGaming Review is published monthly by Pageant Media, Thavies Inn House, 3-4 Holborn Circus, London, EC1N 2HA ISSN 1742-2450 Printed by The Manson Group © 2013 all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used without the prior permission from the publisher As the leading trade publication in the egaming industry we have, once every year, the unique chance to recognise the great and the good in the sector as part of our awards programme. Things kicked off this year with our inaugural Operator Innovation Awards ceremony, already a popular event and one that sets apart those pushing the boundaries in online gambling. Later that sunny day in June we held our B2B Awards, which is always an entertaining affair for lots of reasons. From a personal point of view both events were a pleasure to be involved in, not least due to the satisfaction of the award winners who rightly celebrated their success in style. In this issue you can see a full run-down of the winners including photos from the night itself. Get yourself ready for the biggest one of them all, the eGR Operator Awards, coming in November. No doubt the judging will be as tricky as ever, not least due to some of the activities we’ve witnessed in the past couple of months. The jostling for position in the New Jersey market reached its climax at the start of July, with a handful of highpro?le deals announced (some exclusively by us, I might add). That’s a market set for a fascinating period now, both in terms of how the partnerships pan out in reality and the intense marketing which will follow as the state opens up. Closer to home, Betfair’s full-year results showed a company in transition with declines in EBITDA but the promise of growth in Italy and Spain becoming a reality. We grabbed half an hour with CEO Breon Corcoran to ?nd out more about his plans to push the company forward (see p30). That interview is part of this month’s cover story, in which we have asked some of the industry’s most forward-thinking names to tackle its biggest issues. Innovation, mobile, regulation and the future of casino and all comprehensively covered – we certainly learned a lot from those guys and I hope you do too. 03