Transcript Dan Bower

LOTTERY INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME
By Duane Burke, CEO, Public Gaming Research Institute, Inc.
Early in 2005 I announced that Public Gaming Research Institute was establishing the
LOTTERY INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME. As a part of its 35-year tradition of recognizing
outstanding people in the world lottery industry, the Institute has established this new
honor for world lottery professionals. The Lottery Industry Hall of Fame is to recognize and
honor those who have done most to make the lottery industry so successful worldwide.
In researching how Halls of Fame for other industries were started, I found that the initial
choices of Hall of Fame inductees were made by the initiator of the concept for that field in
some cases. So, in that spirit, the 2005 Lottery Industry Hall of Fame inductees were
chosen by me based upon 35 years of being associated with the lottery industry. Future Hall
of Fame inductees will be chosen by those who have previously been inducted into the
Lottery Industry Hall of Fame, starting with the group inducted for 2005.
Two of those inducted for the first year of the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame are,
unfortunately, no longer with us. They are, Ed Powers, the “Father of Modern Lotteries in
the U.S.”, and Ralph Batch, “The Dean of U.S. Lottery Directors”. These two were the pillars
of integrity, good judgment and knowledge upon whom modern lotteries in the U.S. were
built and from whom lotteries throughout the world have benefited.
Public Gaming Research Institute’s
Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Dan Bower co-founded Scientific Games in 1973 and played an instrumental role in
the development of instant lottery games in North America throughout the 1970s
and 1980s. At Scientific Games, he provided consultancy services and marketing
assistance to more than two dozen lotteries in the United States and Canada, before
joining British American Banknote (BABN) as marketing consultant in 1988.
From 1991 until 1994, he served as Chairman of Automated Wagering International
before becoming Co-Chairman of Tele-Com Productions. State and international
lotteries have benefited from TeleCom’s creativity and winning brands since 1986,
when “Let’s Go To The Races®” made its debut in Barbados. TeleCom licenses
various board game trademarks for the lottery industry and has done business in
over 40 lottery jurisdictions. The company also supports its own line of original
games.
Dan Bower
REASON FOR SELECTION : Dan Bower
was co-developer of the secure, scratch-off
lottery tickets that are so important today to
the revenue success of government lotteries
everywhere. The “instant” lottery ticket that
he helped create and make successful
revolutionized the modern lottery industry.
Dan, 70, lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is married and has four children and eight
grandchildren. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1954 and served in the
United States Air Force as a radar controller for three years before embarking upon
a career in marketing and advertising. Prior to joining the lottery industry, he held
management positions at The Kroger Company, Fisher Foods and J & H
International Corporation.
During the 2002 Convention in Adelaide, Dan Bower became the second recipient of
the WLA’s Guy Simonis Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding service to the
lottery industry.
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Gordon Graves was CEO of Datatrol, Inc. when that company won a contract to install the
first on-line lottery system in Michigan in 1976. The company installed the first on-line
lotto system in the world in Canada in 1978 and, after Graves had left, went on to become
GTECH, the largest lottery supplier in the world. In 1981, Gordon founded a company
called Syntech, Inc. that developed the first player-activated lottery terminal, the first
microcomputer-based redundant central determinant system, and the first touch-screen
gaming terminal. In 1986, Graves sold control of Syntech to IGT, and he not only
participated in IGT’s entry into the lottery business, but also was involved in the
development of MegaBucks, the first progressive slot machine game.
Gordon Graves
REASON FOR SELECTION : Gordon Graves
was selected for the Lottery Industry Hall of
Fame for his pioneering leadership in the
development of on-line computer systems for
lotteries and for his leadership in developing
player activated terminals for the sale of
lottery products.
In 1990, Gordon founded a company called TV Bingo, Inc., which evolved into Austinbased Multimedia Games, Inc. (MGAM). Gordon became CEO of MGAM in 1994 and, in
2003, was named “best performing Chief Executive Officer in the gaming industry” during
an awards ceremony hosted by the American Gaming Association in Las Vegas, Nevada.
“To put it in perspective, Mr. Graves was underpaid as CEO of Multimedia Games for the
past three years by nearly 100 percent, based on the criteria used by our company,” said
Stephen Goebels, a representative of HVS Executive Search, who presented the award.
“Our criteria are based on the performance of the company over a three-year period,
market capitalization, stock price and return to the investor,” explained Goebels.
“Multimedia Games excelled in all of these levels.”
Prior to this award being presented to Gordon, The Investor’s Business Daily newspaper
reported that MGAM had increased in value at the highest rate of any company on Wall
Street in 2001.
Gordon retired from MGAM in 2003. Today he serves on the board of directors of Cash
Systems, Inc., a credit card cash advance company and The Graves Foundation, a
charitable foundation supporting health and education grants. He serves as chairman of
the board of Graves Management, Inc. (GMI). GMI is an investment management
company that manages most of the assets of the Graves family. Those assets are
invested in a wide spectrum of financial instruments and market segments, with the
heaviest concentration being in gaming companies. GMI is the majority shareholder of
AcesWired, LLC, a limited liability start-up company that operates amusement games.
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John R. Koza received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in
1972. From 1973 to 1987, he was chairman, CEO, and co-founder (with Daniel W.
Bower) of Scientific Games Inc. which introduced the rub-off instant lottery ticket to
state government lotteries, pushed for legalization of lotteries in numerous states
(including by initiative petition in Arizona, California, and Oregon), and served as startup consultant for over a dozen state lotteries.
Dr. John Koza
REASON FOR SELECTION : Dr. John R.
Koza was chosen for the Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame for his leadership in creating the
instant/scratch-off lottery product and in
making it such an important part of lotteries
today. He is also honored for his leadership
in helping to start many of today’s successful
lotteries.
Since leaving Scientific Games in 1987, John R. Koza has been involved in venture
capital investing and has taught a course on genetic algorithms and genetic
programming at Stanford University since 1988. He is consulting professor in the
Biomedical Informatics Program in the Department of Medicine and in the Department
of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has served on both the Science
Board and Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute. He is author of four books on
genetic programming, including the 2003 book "Genetic Programming IV: Routine
Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence." Genetic programming is method for
automatically creating computer programs. It starts from a high-level a high-level
statement of what needs to be done and breeds a population of programs over many
generations. Genetic programming now routinely delivers high-return humancompetitive machine intelligence. In addition, genetic programming is an automated
invention machine. Among the four dozen human-competitive results produced so far
by genetic programming, there are 21 instances where genetic programming has
created an entity that either infringes or duplicates the functionality of a previously
patented 20th-century invention, 7 instances where genetic programming has done
the same with respect to an invention patented after January 1, 2000, and 2 instances
where genetic programming has created a patentable new invention. These humancompetitive results come from the fields of the automated design of analog electrical
circuits, controllers, antennas, optical lens systems, mechanical systems, quantum
computing circuits, and algorithms.
John has made clear that there is definitely life after lottery.
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A lawyer and economist, Mr. Lafaille began his career on January 1st 1970 as the
first employee of Loto-Québec, the first State Lottery organization in Canada,
serving as Secretary of the Board and Legal Counsel. The launch in 1971 of the first
lotto game in North America, a 4/10 named Loto-Perfecta, was the result of the
contacts he established with the off-track betting organization in France and the
Westdeutsche Lottery in Germany, directed at that time by Lothar Lammers.
In 1974, Mr. Lafaille organized in Québec the first congress in North America of the
International Association of State Lotteries. In 1976, he left Loto-Québec to
establish the Atlantic Lottery Corporation and served as the company's first General
Manager. He returned to Loto-Québec in 1977 where he held the post of CEO for
eight years. He developed turnover from $100M to $800M per annum, totally reengineered the company adopting the administrative structure of large groups
distributing consumer goods. With his colleagues of the other Canadian lotteries, he
launched in 1982 the first multi-State lotto game in North America, the Lotto 6/49.
Jean-Marc Lafaille
REASON FOR SELECTION : Jean Marc
Lafaille was chosen for his pioneering and
management of Canadian lotteries and for
his leadership in international lottery affairs.
He left the gaming industry in 1985 but returned one year later when he established
GTECH's first European office. He was President of GTECH Europe SA, based in
Brussels, until September 2001.
Named “man of the year in Public Gaming” in 1978 by the PGRI, during his 15 years
on the lottery side and 15 years on the supplier side, Mr. Lafaille has been an active
participant in NASPL, as International vice-president in 1980-1982, in the
International Association of State Lotteries, as member of the executive committee
and secretary general, and he is an honorary member of the World Lottery
Association.
In addition to writing a book on the gaming industry with his friend Guy Simonis,
Mr. Lafaille has started providing training courses and will offer consultant services
to gaming organizations. He also has non-gaming business activities.
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Hall of Fame
Lothar Lammers is widely recognized as the father of the modern lotto game, which
Peter Weiand and he introduced at Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH in the 1950s.
Lammers later provided wide support to other lotteries as the new format gained
momentum around the world.
As Managing Director of Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH for almost thirty years, Lothar
Lammers nurtured the new lotto game from its rebirth through to maturity,
pioneering a series of successful enhancements that were quickly emulated
throughout the worldwide lottery community. Throughout his career, he has been a
valued consultant to lottery and casino organizations worldwide. His achievements
went well beyond the scope of lotto. Westdeutsche Lotterie was the first organization
to launch a special lottery to fund the Olympics Games, for example. It was also the
first to screen an hour-long television lottery entertainment show, and the first to
offer lotto-style betting on horse races.
Lothar Lammers
REASON FOR SELECTION : Lothar
Lammers was chosen to be honored for his
pioneering achievement of co-inventing the
modern lotto game, a foundation of modern
lotteries, for his leadership in lottery
management and for his contributions to the
international lottery industry.
Lammers was also the first lottery director to also operate casinos.
He was Chairman of the advertising, public relations and marketing committee of
Germany’s Lotto and Toto Bloc from 1965 to 1986, and a member of the Executive
Committee of the European Football Pool from 1985 to 1989.
He served as a member of the Intertoto Executive Committee from 1980 until 1985,
and as Intertoto President from 1985 until 1989. Recognized for his dedication to the
development of sports betting and its role in the sports economy, he was
instrumental in the expansion of Intertoto in North America and Australasia. He was
made an Honorary Member of Intertoto in 1989.
Germany awarded Lothar Lammers the Red Cross Order of Merit in 1978 and the
Order of Merit 1st Class in 1984. Finland made him a member of the Order of the
Lion in 1978, and he received France's Ordre National du Mérite in 1987.
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Victor Markowicz was co-founder of the GTECH Corporation, is a software industry
leader and has been a driving force behind the American phenomena of state lotteries.
Victor was born in Siberia where his parents, holocaust escapees from Poland, had been
deported to Soviet labor camps at the onset of World War II. He spent his childhood
and adolescence in Poland studying mathematics at the University of Warsaw. In 1964
the Markowicz family immigrated to Israel where Victor continued his studies in
mathematics at the Technion Institute in Haifa. During this time, he joined a team of
young technologists who designed Israel’s first commercial computer. ELBIT 100.
Victor Markowicz
Shortly after he arrived in 1970 to the United States penniless but enthusiastic,
Markowicz associated himself with Mathematica Corporation of Princeton, New Jersey, a
government consulting company. An assignment to apply computer technology to the
New Jersey State Lottery Corporation sealed his fate as a lottery entrepreneur. Later,
he and two colleagues founded Gaming Dimensions Inc., a lottery technology
corporation in Providence, Rhode Island, which today has grown into GTECH
Corporation, a world leading supplier and designer of computerized lottery systems.
Starting in Rhode Island with one customer in 1976, GTECH became a New York Stock
Exchange traded global enterprise with over 5000 employees and $1B in annual
revenue. GTECH operates and or provides lottery systems to over 80 government
lotteries around the world. Victor played an instrumental role in GTECH’s growth,
serving as Co-Chairman of the company until his retirement in 1998.
REASON FOR SELECTION : Victor
Markowicz was chosen for his success in codeveloping on-line lotteries, as co-developer
of the billion-dollar GTECH Corporation, and
A Snapshot of Victor Markowicz’s Lottery Experience
for helping to bring on-line games to lotteries Grew GTECH, the world’s leading on-line lottery supplier, to a $1B global business;
around the world.
Capitalized the company, through 2 IPOs and 1 LBO, creating significant value for
shareholders, customers and employees;
Helped craft the games, security systems, implementations and governmental
regulations that today continue to frame the global lottery marketplace;
Traveled the world, encountering various gaming cultures, customs and people, to help
implement lottery funding for good causes;
Became a philanthropist, involved in contributing to the arts, films and cultural
programs – especially those in his native Poland;
Led the growing global lottery industry -- with other supplier executives, lottery chiefs
and government officials -- to become a trusted source of worldwide revenue for good
causes.
Public Gaming Research Institute’s
Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Today, it is readily acknowledged that the lottery industry is the globally pre-eminent
vehicle for raising revenues for good causes. Billions are generated annually. GTECH is
the leading provider of technology solutions and content to the industry. There are very
few people today in the lottery industry or at GTECH that have been part of the creation
and evolution of the on-line lottery industry. There are even fewer who have played a
key role in creating a vision for the industry’s future and driving its implementation. One
of those select few, Tim Nyman, has been and continues to be at the forefront of the
lottery industry’s advancement and GTECH’s growth.
Tim Nyman
REASON FOR SELECTION : Tim Nyman
was chosen for his pioneering work in the
on-line lottery field and for his leadership in
making on-line lotteries a foundation for the
success of lotteries around the world.
Joining Datatrol in 1979, Tim was witness to the lottery industry’s earliest origins and
GTECH’s creation as the core of Datatrol’s business in lottery would ultimately form the
nucleus of GTECH. As two other honorees and GTECH’s founders, Guy Snowden and
Victor Markowitz, have often noted, in those early days, the lottery industry was a
handful of entrepreneurs and GTECH’s assets amounted to a few desks, a waste paper
basket, some contracts of undetermined value, a vision and a couple of people that
believed in what lottery could become. Tim Nyman was there and his contribution to
GTECH’s success and the industry’s growth is woven into our collective histories.
Today, GTECH is a $1.2 billion company and Tim Nyman is Senior Vice President of
Global operations overseeing 2500 employees and over $900 million in revenues. There
are few stories like Tim’s in any industry. As GTECH experienced explosive growth, Tim
took on positions of increasing authority in almost every aspect of GTECH’s operations.
He has a remarkable ability to adapt, excel and thrive through change. That is the
hallmark of any successful business leader. It defines Tim Nyman’s career and it is why
he is being inducted into the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame.
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Hall of Fame
Rebecca Paul is a 20-year lottery industry veteran. She began her career working in
local television news, advertising and promotions in Indiana and Illinois before being
tapped in 1985 to lead the Illinois Lottery. Under her management, Illinois Lottery sales
climbed to more than $1.3 billion annually. In 1987, she moved to Florida to launch the
Sunshine State's lottery where she set industry records for first-year sales. After that,
she worked as a consultant, developing strategic plans and advising lotteries across the
U.S. and abroad.
Rebecca Paul
REASON FOR SELECTION : Rebecca Paul
is being honored for her outstanding and
unmatched start-up and management of
lotteries in the United States, for co-founding
the very successful, multi-state game, Mega
Millions and for her leadership in North
American and world lottery associations.
In 1993 Paul was tapped to start up the Georgia Lottery. During the first year of
operation, she once again set new industry sales records. During her 10 years in the
Peach State, the Georgia Lottery generated more than $6 billion for education.
In 2003 Paul was selected as the Tennessee Lottery's first president and CEO. After
starting ticket sales three weeks ahead of schedule on January 20, the Tennessee
Lottery closed out its first fiscal year of five months and 12 days by transferring more
than $123 million to the state’s education fund—roughly 40 percent more than the
initial goal of $88 million. By March 2005, gross ticket sales had surpassed $1 billion
after one year and seven weeks of ticket sales.
Paul's resume includes a long list of lottery industry, business and civic
accomplishments. In 1990, she served as President of the International Lottery
Association. From 1997 to 1998, she served as president of NASPL. She was the
recipient of PGRI’s 1998 Peter O'Connell Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1999, she
served as vice chairman of the Public Sector Gaming Study Commission appointed by
the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States.
Her many honors also include being named to Business Tennessee magazines “Power
100,” a list of Tennessee’s most powerful people, and being named "Entrepreneur of
the Year" by the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.
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Duane Burke, CEO of Public Gaming Research Institute is quoted as saying, “Nearly 20
years ago my good friend Ed Powers told me he had signed on as a consultant to a
small production company from Texas who wanted to produce commercials about
lottery winners. He said they would be attending my next conference in Boca Raton
and bringing Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebeck.
Over the years lots of businesses and individuals show up at various lottery functions
lured by the “big numbers” of our industry. Sadly most don’t stay around very long.
“We are happy to say that Steve Saferin and MDI are very real exceptions to that. Not
only have they stayed around and prospered, they have brought our industry some
truly creative and profitable products and brought us all a lot of fun and entertainment
at our shows.”
Steve Saferin
REASON FOR SELECTION : Steve Saferin
is being recognized for his early innovations
in lottery advertising and for the invention
and implementation of licensed games in the
lottery industry - one of the most important
products in the world lottery industry today.
Steve started MDI in January 1986, and the company in 2005 is kicking off its 20th
anniversary celebrations. Steve left his position as Director of Programming at ESPN to
launch his career as an entrepreneur. He has a journalism degree from American
University and was a sports writer at The Washington Post. He holds a law degree from
the University of Maryland and worked as an attorney for the Federal Communications
Commission and Viacom International serving as Showtime’s first lawyer when it was
founded in 1977.
He serves on the Deans Advisory Committee for the School of Communications at
American University and endowed the Steve Saferin Sports Communications Program at
the school.
Steve did produce those lottery commercials about winners, filming over 80 spots
entitled “The New Millionaires with Alex Trebeck.”
In 1996 Steve and MDI acquired their first license for lottery games—The Twilight
Zone. Today they have over 80 marketing partnerships with some of the best known
brands in the world.
As most of you know, in 2003 MDI was acquired by Scientific Games and later that year
Steve was named to his current position as President of Scientific Games Ventures.
But what you may not know, and what is amazing, is that in 2005 SGI will print in
excess of $2.3 billion in licensed games bearing the marks of the various licenses
owned by MDI.
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Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Born in the Netherlands, Simonis emigrated to Canada in 1954 at age 23. In 1974 he was
asked to lead the formation and later headed, the Western Canada Lottery Foundation,
which encompassed the four Western Canadian Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta and British Columbia.
In 1985 Simonis headed the British Columbia Lottery when it broke away from its 10-year
association with the Foundation.
In addition to pioneering Lotto 6/49 (1982) and sports lotteries (1988) in Canada, and
among many other lottery innovations he spearheaded the development of Electronic Bingo
opening the world’s first fully operational hall, anywhere, in 1988. In 1998 management and
conduct of all casinos in British Columbia were added to his responsibility as President of the
British Columbia Lottery Corporation
Simonis was a leading figure in industry development. He was President of North American
Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (1985-87) the first Canadian to be so honored.
On the international scene he headed the world’s major lottery industry associations.
Guy Simonis
REASON FOR SELECTION : Guy Simonis is
one of the true pioneers in the North
American lottery industry. He is being
honored for his leadership and many
achievements in Canadian lotteries and for
his leadership in the world lottery industry.
President
President
President
Founding
of North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (1985-87)
of the l’Association Internationale des Loteries d'Etat (1995-1996)
the International Lotto and Toto Organization Intertoto (1997-1999) and,
President of the World Lottery Association. (2000)
As a follow-up to his Presidency of NASPL Simonis introduced an industry-training program
called the Erewhon State Lottery. Originally intended as a one-time study for lottery
directors, the program became the premier training program of the lottery industry. Over
600 middle management personnel on five continents have participated in the program.
Simonis has created home studies on CD ROM in game design for Lotto, Keno, 3 and 4-digit
numbers games and the instant game. Many new additions to lottery staff gain an
immediate insight into the intricacies of lotteries that would otherwise be absorbed through
trial and experience.
Now conducting lectures and seminars on lotteries and gaming, he lives with his wife of
nearly 50 years on the Pacific Coast of Canada within a few minutes’ walk from the United
States. The couple has four mature children, a son and three daughters. Four grandchildren
are in Atlanta, Georgia; two in Winnipeg Canada and one near home in Delta British
Columbia.
Mr. Simonis often plays the piano; the piano always loses.
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Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Drawing on his experience with real-time transactions processing systems gained from his
employment at IBM, Guy Snowden became involved in the lottery industry during the pioneering
years of the early 1970s. Guy recognized the relevance of these systems to the then popular “offline” lottery games of the times. Applying communications, printing, point-of-sale and game
software technology to the emerging lottery industry, Guy helped start government-sponsored
lotteries in five North American states while working with his future partner, Victor Markowicz.
In 1976, Guy co-founded Gaming Dimensions Inc., a gaming software and design consultancy
which merged with Datatrol – a leading supplier of on-line terminals and systems – to become the
world’s leading supplier of on-line wagering networks. As Executive Vice President of Datatrol’s
Gaming Systems Division, Guy help introduced the world’s first on-line lotto system for the Province
of Ontario.
In 1980, Guy and two other partners acquired the assets of the Gaming Systems Division from
Datatrol and founded GTECH. As President of GTECH from 1980 to 1994, Guy managed the
Company’s explosive growth and entry into the international marketplace. Chief Executive since
the company’s inception, Guy was elected Chairman of the Board in 1987 and played a leadership
role in the day-to-day management of GTECH responsible for strategy, broad policy and overseeing
all operational matters.
Guy Snowden
REASON FOR SELECTION : Guy Snowden
was chosen for his success in co-developing
on-line lotteries, as co-developer and CEO of
the billion-dollar GTECH Corporation, and for
helping to bring on-line games to lotteries
around the world.
During the 70s and 80s, many state and foreign jurisdictions elected to operate lotteries as a
means of providing funding for public projects. Under Guy’s leadership, GTECH Corporation
designed, produced, and implemented over 80 computerized on-line lottery networks, as well as
other transaction systems networks for governments around the world, maintaining and expanding
the Company’s leadership of their worldwide markets.
Ultimately Guy and his partner, Victor Markowicz, took GTECH public (GTK: NYSE) and by 1998,
GTECH had become the market leader with annual revenues of about $1B and more than 5,000
employees worldwide.
A Snapshot of Guy Snowden Lottery Experience
Grew GTECH, the world’s leading on-line lottery supplier, to a $1B global business;
Capitalized the company, through 2 IPOs and 1 LBO, creating significant value for shareholders,
customers and employees;
Helped craft the games, security systems, implementations and governmental regulations that
today continue to frame the global lottery marketplace;
Led the GTECH teams which developed, implemented and marketed some of the world’s largest –
and smallest lottery games – all with the public’s appreciation and trust;
Mentored young professionals in the company and in the industry who continued on to become
executives, consultants, analysts and technologists in the gaming and other industries; and
Led the growing global lottery industry -- with other supplier executives, lottery chiefs and
government officials -- to become a trusted source of worldwide revenue for good causes.
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Edward J. Stanek was the first employee and has been the chief executive of the Iowa
Lottery since its inception in 1985 and is the world’s second most senior lottery director. He
is also the co-inventor of Powerball, one of the world’s most successful lotto games, and is
a founder and past president of the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL) that manages
and sells Powerball. He has served as the Chair of the MUSL Development Committee which
reviews, researches, and develops new game and promotion concepts for the organization.
Dr. Stanek is a past president of the North American Association of State and Provincial
Lotteries (NASPL) and of the International Association of State Lotteries (AILE). He was on
the Presidium of the International Association of Lotto and Toto Organizations
(INTERTOTO) and past Senior Vice President of the World Lottery Association (WLA). Ed
was the 1997 winner of the Peter J. O’Connell Lottery Lifetime Achievement Award and has
appeared on the cover of Public Gaming International Magazine 6 times.
Dr. Ed Stanek
REASON FOR SELECTION : Ed Stanek was
chosen for the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame
for his leadership in co-founding the MultiState Lottery Association, for co-designing
Powerball, one of the most important lotto
games in the world, for being the principal
innovator among lottery leaders and for his
international leadership in the lottery
industry.
Under his direction, the Iowa Lottery has become known for creativity and innovation. It
was the first lottery to require electronic money transfers to and from all of its retailers
(1985), the first to sell prepackaged multiple ticket ensembles (1986), the first to sell pulltab tickets (1987), the first to sell guaranteed winning tickets as greeting cards (1989), the
first to use pull-tab vending machines (1991), the first in the US to design an extended play
scratch game with a higher price point starting with Bingo (1992), the first to do an on-line
game based on dates (1993), the first to use an automated electronic random drawing
machine on television (1993), the first in the US to offer the CD-ROM enhanced game
invented in Canada (2002), the first to do market research with surveys via its Internet web
site (2001), the first to offer monitor vending machines (2002), and the first to deploy
Electronic Game Cards (2004).
Dr. Stanek was granted a US patent May 3, 2005 for a unified on-line lotto game that can
transcend prize structures, time zones, and currency differences. He has a patent pending
for a split matrix game that is a combination of lotto and keno.
Dr. Stanek has a Ph.D. in physics from Iowa State University, is on the board of directors of
the Vintage Mutual Funds, and has authored three books on American decorative arts and
antiques.
Public Gaming Research Institute’s
Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Shortly after the Oregon Lottery began operations in 1985, I stopped at a small
store in Harrisburg to buy a pop. As the cash register drawer opened for my
change I noticed the lottery tickets in it. I asked the clerk for two of them and as
she handed them to me I realized that if I hadn’t seen them I wouldn’t have
bought them. That evening I made my first dispenser out of cardboard. It’s a
beauty. The next evening I made my first plastic dispenser, another beauty. And
the rest is history; except for all the hard work.
Cal Tigner
REASON FOR SELECTION : Call Tigner
revolutionized the sale of scratch-off lottery
tickets by inventing the scratch-off ticket
sales dispenser that displayed tickets so
customers could see them. It also made
practical the marketing of more games
simultaneously.
I was sure that I had a winner, but starting Take-A-Ticket six months before I
received my first Social Security check was a little scary. I told my son Calvin that if
investing everything in a business this late in life hadn’t worked out then Estelle
and I would have been living in our motor home in his driveway. I also thought
that within three years I would have a dispenser selling one game in each store
and TAT would probably be history. I had no idea that 20 years later the company
would be stronger than ever.
Starting out was difficult. I had a new unproven idea. I could build any house but
had never fabricated plastics. I had no contacts in the lottery industry and
everything was trial and error. My first big breakthrough was the first Public
Gaming Conference I attended. Duane Burke took me under his wing and walked
me around introducing me to the people I should know in the industry. The
startup of Take-A-Ticket was made much easier with the help of the PGRI and the
Burkes. I was lucky to have good friends to help me with my idea.
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Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Lorne Weil began his lottery career with General Instrument in the late 70’s. As VP of
Corporate Development he was part of the management team that designed, developed
and launched the first online lottery systems in North America in New Jersey and
Maryland.
In the eighties Mr. Weil acquired a major equity stake in the company formerly known as
Autotote. By the mid nineties Autotote had become the world leader in pari-mutuel
systems and had succeeded in diversifying into the online lottery business by virtue of
several pioneering technology developments- the first PC based terminal, the first use of
IP-based networks, the first open system, the first “ticket in ticket out” VLT terminal and
system.
Lorne Weil
REASON FOR SELECTION : Lorne Weil is
being recognized for his part in implementing
on-line technology to the lottery industry and
for his leadership in the growth and success
of the lottery industry worldwide.
In 2000 Autotote acquired Scientific Games, choosing to keep the latter’s name, and Mr.
Weil continued as Chairman and Chief Executive. Between 2000 and the present
Scientific Games acquired MDI Entertainment, IGT/OES, the Serchi Company in Chile,
and the Honsel Company in Germany. Along the way it became far and away the world
leader in instant tickets, the leader in licensed properties, and one of two leaders in the
online business.
Public Gaming Research Institute’s
Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Ralph Batch
REASON FOR SELECTION : Ralph Batch
was chosen for the Lottery Industry Hall of
Fame for his pioneering of much of what are
the foundations of modern lotteries including
the laws, operating procedures and
management practices, for his generous
assistance to all of the US lotteries that came
into existence during his many years in the
industry, for setting the standard for lottery
advertising and for encouraging the
development of technology for lotteries. He is
one of the two early lottery directors to
whom the US lottery industry is most
indebted.
Ralph Batch made his first mark on the history of the lottery industry when he was
appointed to chair a commission studying the feasibility of starting a lottery in New
Jersey. His subsequent work with the start-up of that lottery, as well as his leadership
in the launch of the Illinois Lottery and revitalization the Delaware Lottery, lead to him
being named by Public Gaming Research Institute, "Dean of State Lottery Directors."
Batch believed that the lottery industry was a worthwhile investment for governments
as an alternative of additional taxation. He actively encouraged the exchange of ideas
and information between lottery organizations. In 1971 he co-founded and became
the first president of the National Association of State Lotteries, now known as the
North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries. Throughout his
distinguished career, Batch was a champion of technology and innovation and of
quality lottery advertising. He believed that such quality advertising would contribute
to greater public acceptance of lotteries.
The NASPL Batchy Awards for advertising honor his memory by recognizing lottery
advertising that achieves the level of excellence Batch promoted throughout his
career.
Upon his retirement from the directorship of the Delaware Lottery, Ralph joined Public
Gaming Research Institute as a consultant and Member of the Board so that he could
continue helping people in the lottery industry.
Prior to joining the lottery industry, Ralph had a distinguished career as a Special
Agent and Special Agent-In-Charge in various FBI offices in the United States.
PGRI honored Ralph Batch in the past with the “Lottery Lifetime Achievement Award”
and PGRI honors the memory of him with his induction into the Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame.
Public Gaming Research Institute’s
Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Edward Powers was more than a lottery pioneer– he was the U.S. lottery industry’s
equivalent of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In 1964 he was appointed Director of the
New Hampshire Sweepstakes Commission in 1964, the first lottery in modern times in
the US, and thus became the “Father of Modern-Day Lotteries.”
He spent much of his career in the lottery industry leading the removal of obstacles to
state-operated lotteries and championing states rights at a time when the federal
government was attempting to impede the use of lotteries as an alternative to increased
taxation. Although the first lottery game in New Hampshire was a copy of the Irish
Sweepstakes, a game widely sold illegally in those days, Ed was always at the forefront
of adopting new products and technologies to increase the New Hampshire Lottery’s
revenues.
Ed Powers
REASON FOR SELECTION : Ed Powers
started the first lottery in modern times in
the United States, lead the fight against the
Federal Government for states rights to
operate lotteries and set the example for
integrity in lottery operations for all
subsequent lotteries.
Prior to his career as a Lottery director, Powers headed several FBI field offices and was
the Special Agent-In-Charge of the FBI field office in Boston that broke the Brinks
Robbery case, a $6 million heist that, at the time, was the largest armored car robbery
ever.
Still, as heralded as his pre-lottery days were, he is best remembered in this industry
for the more than 25-years in which he consistently exhibited the drive, commitment
and integrity which were emulated by his generation of lottery employees and the
generations that followed.
Upon retirement from the Lottery, Ed became a consultant to Public Gaming Research
Institute and then to a number of other companies including MDI.
During his lifetime, PGRI honored Ed Powers by presenting him with the “Lottery
Lifetime Achievement Award.” In 2005 PGRI is pleased to honor Ed posthumously with
induction into the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame.
Public Gaming Research Institute’s
Lottery Industry
Hall of Fame
Doris and Duane Burke started what is today Public Gaming Research Institute, Inc.
(PGRI) in 1971 as a vehicle for helping people in government and industry interested in
using state lotteries and other government sponsored gaming to raise money for good
causes. From the fall of 1974 to the middle of 1980 Duane was also the registered
lobbyist for the National Association of State Lotteries and is credited with helping defeat
Federal government efforts to restrict the operation and growth of state lotteries. PGRI is
now in its 35th year of continuous service to this industry of which it has been a part
almost since the beginning of modern lotteries in North America and throughout the
modernization of lotteries throughout the world. Its objective remains the same as when
the company was founded, to help the people and institutions committed to raising
money for good causes.
Doris and Duane Burke
REASON FOR SELECTION : As founders of
the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame, Doris and
Duane Burke of Public Gaming Research
Institute had no thought of being selected
for this honor, which was intended for those
who have made important contributions to
the long-term successes of government
lotteries. Those individuals selected by PGRI
for 2005, however, thought otherwise. They
subsequently chose Doris and Duane to be
honored also for their contributions to lottery
education, for assisting lottery and industry
managers and for the promotion of integrity
in lottery management and operations over
the past 35 years. Doris and Duane were
surprised by this recognition from those who
they admire but sincerely appreciate the
honor.
In 1999 the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL)
honored Doris and Duane for 30 years of service to the lottery industry.
They are publishers of Public Gaming International magazine and of PGRI’s International
Morning Report and are organizers of two lottery industry conferences each year –
SMART-Tech and International Lottery Expo & ILAC Congress. They are also owners of a
Guatemalan company that operates video lottery salons, a portion of whose revenues
support children’s health programs there.
Duane was previously in engineering and computing with the Boeing Company and its
subsidiary Boeing Computer Services for the twenty years prior to he and Doris starting
Public Gaming.
Duane is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle with a Bachelor of
Sciences Degree in Electrical Engineering. Doris attended schools in Topeka, Kansas and
in Seattle at the University of Washington.