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Key Industry Events
Gareth
will be speaking and/or attending these future major
industry events:
Hosting:
CXO Deal Makers, CEO member
Sept lunches, 08, invitation only private gathering,
see
more on CXO here.
Hosting:
Gambit public forum event -
focusing on Spreadbetting,
September 2008,
signup now on
our website
Hosting:
E/MBA club private gatherings
for City/Cass MBA alumni only, 17Sept. 2008.
Hosting:
CXO all members VIP reception
July 08, invitation only private gathering, see
more on CXO here.
Hosting:
Gambit public forum event -
focusing on 2008 review, Gaming
Operations, November
2008, signup now on
our website
Attending:
iGaming Marketing Forum, 27-28Oct07 London,
see more details here.
Gareth
spoke in, attended or hosted the following major industry
events:
(See Full
Lists of previous and future events here.)
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event -
focusing on Affiliates,
17Jul08, signup
now on
our website
Spoke:
G2E Asia - chairing mobile gambling
panel 3-5 June
2008, Macau conference
website.
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event -
focused on Payments,
20May08, signup
now on
our website
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event -
focused on Bingo,
13Mar08, read
the report now.
Attended:
Cass-Capco
Institute Risk Conference, 8April 08, invitation
only, Agenda
Attended:
Communications Management Association's Annual conference,
26-27Feb,
London
Spoke:
Multi-channel Betting and Gambling,
berlin, 25-26Feb, see
their website, download my presentation here.
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event -
focusing on iTV & Mobile
Gaming,7 Nov.
2007, see the
event report
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event -
at Cass Business School,
18July. 2007,
focusing on Finance,
see event report on Gambit's
website
Attended: Zero2IPO,
China Venture Capital & Private Equity Forum,
28June07 London,
see more details here.
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event -
at Cass Business School,
4th June. 2007,
focusing on Sponsorship,
see the
event report on Gambit's website.
Spoke:
Asian Casino Executive Summit, 16-18April07, Singapore.
see
their website, download my presentation here.
Hosted:
Gambit public forum event,
11Apr07, focused
on Innovation with endemol,
Betfair, Gottabet speaking, see the
event report here.
Spoke:
The Future of Betting and Gaming, 19-20Mar07, London.
see
their website, you can download my presentation
here.
Spoke
& Chaired:
Mobile Gambling Summit, 22-23Jan07, London, pls see
their
website. Download my
presentation on the indutry lifecycle
Hosted:
Gambit 2007 fist event - at
Cass Business School,
10Jan07, see
Gambit's
website focusing on new markets & products,
event
report!
Hosted:
Gambit Special event - focusing
on 2006 Review,
15th Nov. 2006,
see Gambit's
website for more info,great success, with 160+
signed up, see report
here!
Chaired:
Mobile Gambling Summit Asia,
31Oct-1st Nov, Hong Kong, Opening
Slides, Closing
Slides.
Att: Inaugural
Cross Media Week, PICNIC 'O6, 27-29Sept,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chair:
Mobile Gambling, Gaming & Lotteries North America
2006, 3-4 Oct. Montreal, Canada, Opening
Slides, Closing
Slides
Hosted:
Gambit Public forum at Cass Business School on Talent,
5th Sept06, see Gambit's
website for more report!
Hosted:
Gambit Public forum at Cass Business School on Gaming
Marketing , 14th June06, see
the report here
Hosted:
Gambit Public forum at Cass Business School on Mobile
Gambling, 4th April 06, see
the report here.
Spk/Chair:
Pacific Congress on I-Gaming, 20-21
Feb 06, Macau, China, Download
his presentation here.
Hosted:
Gambit Public forum at Cass on TV Gaming, evening
of 11 Jan 2006, see Gambit's
website for the report, we had 80+ attended.
FOUNDED
& Hosted:
Inaugural Gaming
Money Summit (at the London Stock
Exchange who co-sponsored this event): I also
launched CXO Network Europe. This event was managed
by our event partner at Cecil
Park Publishing, it brought together CXOs from
gambling, media, telecom, entertainment and financial
sector in London. 23-24 Jan. 2006. 90+ turned up,
see report on this
website.
Spoke:
Mobile Gambling 2005, 29-30
Nov 2005. Madrid, Spain, download.
Spoke
& Chair:
Mobile Gambling Summit Asia 2005, 19-20
Oct 2005, download
program here. Singapore, download Gareth's
presentation here.
Host:
Gambit on Skill
Gaming:, at Cass Business School, London. 26th
Sep Event was
a great success with 70+ ppl turned up, do email
me to register your interest for future events.
See Full
Report here.
Spk:
Multi-Platform Gaming Forum 28-29
June05, London, Gareth presented
the Key Sucess Factors on Mobile Gambling
Spk:
GIGSE 2005 13-15
June 05 Montreal Canada, Gareth spoke about Risk
Management, download his presentation here.
Spk:
Inaugural Mobile Gambling Summit 2005
27-28
Jan 2005 Download
PDF program Gareth's
presentation, email me to request it.
Spk:
European
iGaming Expo 2004 08-10 Nov 2004
Download
PDF program Gareth's
Presentation
at EiG04 (10k)
Spk:The
European Summit on Wireless Technology for
Financial Institutions 30 Nov - 1st Dec04 London Email
to request for this presentation
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Jan 2005
FOUNDED
& Hosted:
Launched Gambit
(special interest group for gaming gambling industry)
with Cass
Business School, see the
report of the event here.
Participated in Conference
organised by Westminster eForum focusing on
the "remote gambling" industry, see my submitted
article here. You can purchase the full
proceedings report here.
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Dec 2004
Betting Business Magazine published an
article on GamBond in
their December 04 edition.
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Nov 2004
First Press
Release of GamBond on Sporting Options' demise
about how its bond could protect consumers' wallets.
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June 2004
Launched the iGaming industry's much needed GamBond
bond guarantee products and services at the iGaming
Jurisdiction Showcase in London. We provide bond schemes
to the world- wide remote gaming and gambling market.
Click
on link below to find out more.
Click
here to email me about it.
Download
& Read my article published on the respected
trade iGaming
Business Magazine in July04.
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April 2003 -Jan, 2004
Launched many mobile gambling products (some own operations,
some with partners), including fixed odds betting,
world's first Play4Fun Casino games, Play4Fun &
Play4Real Java/Casino Games. Also
different types of mobile alerts and tipsters' services.
Plus online & mobile Softgames (instant win games).
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Devised the business strategy, implemented, and launched
the brand of GamRock.
GamRock:The first dedicated
mobile gaming and gambling brand/operation from a
telecom company in the world.
Click on the logo above to
see the screen capture of the sexy & exclusive
looking table design.
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Joined Opera Telecom as Business Development Manager,
one main task (amongst others) is to put together
& be responsible for all gaming/gambling operations.
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Although I am now living
in the London Docklands, Hong Kong (picture below)
is where I am from.
Life in HK is great,
every 5 steps are either shops or restaurants or some
kind of entertainment. Bliss, but could easily lead
to exhaustion, therefore recommend to visit in moderation.
:-)
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Welcome
Thanks to the diversity of my career (Multi-channel/mobile
gaming and gambling, high value sales &
marketing, and strategic business planning
& operations), instead of filling three websites,
I've put together this one for convenience.
I've tried to make navigation as straightforward
as possible. Simply take a look at my career overviews
below, or click any of the links in the above menu, and
you'll find all you need about the area that interests
you most.
I network extensively across all markets,
industries and sectors, I host 
lunches (launched at Gaming
Money Summit), founded Gambit
special interest group, and also host EMBA
Club for Cass MBA alumni. (see the agenda on the
left where I will be.)
My Day job is running the GamBond®
Ltd., the company that brings "Global
Trust & Confidence" to the gaming gambling
world.
Hope to meet with you soon.
Industry
endorsements of Gareth
I try to distill my thinking on different
industry sector by writing opinion pieces, e.g.: Mobile
& iTV Gambling Report, mobile marketing,
and a
blog on CXO networking.
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Learn
more about in London 2012, who does what, what
are the opportunities etc.
My
Profile
"The
Film Business Academy", Read about World's first
Executive MBA for Film industry executives, supported
by the industry & UK Government.
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August 2006, What
are the regulatory challenges, and what are the real issues?,
guest column written by Gareth on IGWB
18 July 2006, The Committee of Advertising Practice
(CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice
(BCAP) have launched a public consultation on proposed
new rules for regulating gambling advertisements.
Details
& methods of responding by 15Sept06.
June 2006, Internet Gambling Report will include
the updated chapter on mobile gambling written by me,
this time will include my analysis on iTV gambling also,
you can read the 2005
chapter here. I also suggest you pre-order
the 2006 new edition of the Internet Gambling Report here.
or download the Table
of Content of the 2006 edition.
31May06,
Gambling commission published "Licensing, Compliance
and Enforcement" for public consultation, responses
are due 22Aug. Download
Licensing, Compliance and Enforcement.pdf(pdf, 1.9MB)
May2006, IGWB
published the quarterly column by Gareth Wong, in their
May issue, the column talked about "Remote
vs. land-based - different, yes - and yet more alike than
you think".
10March, Gambling
Commission publishes proposed new rules to govern gambling
in Britain
March 06, The Gambit
special interest group and the Inaugural
Gaming Money Summit are covered by the Industry leading
IGWB magazine.
See the pdf
file of the article.
Jan 06, the much respected
Casino
& Gaming International magazine published an article
by Gareth Wong on Convergence, Opportunities and Future
Prospects on mobile gambling, his
article can be downloaded here, indeed, Senior executives
across industires can get their own copies from the publisher
directly here.
23-24Jan06,
the Inaugural
Gaming Money Summit took place at the London Stock
Exchange (co-sponsor). I am happy to tell you that it
was a resounding success, it was the major event which
we launched the CXO
Network Europe, which is a private collaborative network
for those of influence (click on the CXO logo above for
more details).
On 11th January 2006 Gambit
Public Forum on TV Gaming was indeed proven to be
a major evening event (exclusively sponsored by
SKY),
we had Exec.Chairman of Racing UK, General Manager
from Youbet Nevada, CEO of Tamblin, Vice
Chairman of Digital Magics (Italy), and CEO of
Rawflow Ltd., and it was chaired by Dominic Dudley
of New Media Age, despite the fact that most people
were probably still hung over from the festive seasons
and we only promoted it in earnest for about 7 days, we
had close to 180 signup and 80+ people turned up to this
fantastic evening, do check back to see the full report
and pictures on: www.TheGambit.info/TVGaming/.
In the 2005 Financial Times rankings
of the top 75 Executive MBA programmes worldwide,
published 24 Oct 05, the Cass EMBA is ranked 10th in the
world, 3rd in Europe and 2nd in the UK. This places Cass
in the premier league of EMBA programmes worldwide.
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13th Oct 2005
The
Times newspaper UK interviewed Gareth Wong on how
his Executive MBA helped his career, on his mission in
life, and about the initiative Gambit he founded (see
it on the
times website or download
the scanned article here).
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June 2005
A
new Mobile Gambling section of the "Internet
Gambling Report" VIII edition has been published
written by Gareth Wong, you can get your own copy from
River
City Group.
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May 2005
UK's
Gambling Commission (transition
managed by the Gaming
Board of Great Britain) issued the
introductory guide and provisional
timetable on their web site. Lets give the government
all our support and provide our best constructive feedback
as per the above timetable.
May 2005, a much respected
industry magazine, eGaming
Review Published Gareth Wong's analysis on the status
of the mobile gaming gambling market, see the article
here (page1
and page2,
jpg 500k).
Niche
finder service
For high technology companies within the Telecom/IT/Gaming/Gambling
market, who would like to build a successful company with
unlimited potential (either at the start-up phase or in
a 'taking-stock' stage), my Niche Finder Service may be
of interest to you. Click
here to find out more about my Niche Finder Service!
Mobile, iTV interactive
gaming, gamebling & gambling service
In the past few years, I have specialised in the interactive
gaming, gamebling & gambling market, devised a brand,
business and distribution strategy of new product offerings
which the market has neither seen nor heard of before.
I have distilled some key lessons learnt and highlighted
potentially how I may be able to assist in the businesses
within this field. Click
here to learn more about my 3Gs services!
Key challenge for operators who has mobile gambling offerings
is now to identify whom, where and how to distribute their
services, I can help, get in touch.
Private Equity &
Venture Capital Opportunities
Gaming/Gambling is now a very hot vertical for PE &
VCs to look for good investment opportunities. As a consequence
of advising some PE/VCs on due diligence within the telecoms
and gaming/gambling markets and due to networking, I am
aware that there is still not enough understanding of
this market place, consequently, I have organised the
Inaugural Gaming
Money Summit at the London Stock Exchange (co-sponsor)
which took place on 23-24Jan.2006. I shall be writing
a summary of the finding very soon.
NB: For VCs/PE/Institutional
investors, I can assist in your due diligence of a
specific company (their strategy,business model etc.),
& provide market insight, and assist in forming your
investment strategies going forward.
An article on M&A
in Japan by a fellow Cass MBA Alumni: Vincent Poizat
- - Vice President at the Tokyo office of Morgen,
Evan & Company, which maybe of interest to you.
For gaming gambling companies,
or those that want to
break into this sector, I can advise you upon the key
players (their SWOTs, strategy) and market dynamics and
likely trends once I am engaged as a consultant or board
advisor (if you have passed due diligence and that I believe
in you & your potential).
I can ONLY help companies with
a clean & open record,
and those that can provide me with enough information
for due diligence purposes, as I am unable to help if
this is not performed, as no doubt you can understand.
Meanwhile, I have access to some key companies which
could present great opportunities for the individual/PE/VCs
with the corresponding investment profile (to
read my thoughts on this sector, click here).
High value sales &
marketing consultancy
Click on [Services]
and discover how I can devise your strategic sales and
marketing plans, whether you're a start-up, SME or multinational
corporation.
Strategic business
planning & operations audit
Click on [Services]
and read how I can provide you with a snapshot of your
market, including analysis of the key players, products
and trends, both inside and outside your target region,
and show you how to take advantage of the opportunities
this information uncovers.
January 2005, Gareth Wong
launched a special gaming gambling forum
called  in
conjunction with GamBond
and Cass
Business School. The Gambit forum launched
on 24th January with its exclusive invitation-only inaugural
dinner. We would like to thank the 30+ esteemed guests
from governments, gaming operators and advisors who attended
the event. See the report
of the event here.
Previous
public Gambit events are: sponsorship,
Innovation
of Gambling sector into 2007, New
Markets & New Products,The
year 2006 Review, Talent
Challenge (Panel),Gaming
Marketing,
Mobile Gaming, TVGaming
(Panel), SkillGaming
(Panel) , M&A
(by Nigel Payne of Sportingbet Plc.).
We are working
on the next EMBA Club events, email EMBAClub
to get your personal invitation. DO jot down these
future dates of EMBA Club: 29May07 (where Eric
Barnett, Global Head of Wealth of SG Hambros will be speaking
and sponsoring drinks), Previous EMBA Clubs: 15Feb07
(where Michael Wilkins, EMBA97, Standard & Poor's
EMEA MD of infrastructure finance spoke & sponsored
drinks), Nov06 (David Beer, EMBA87, Chairman of
Petrochemcarless, ex Chairman of Shell Argentina, spoke
& sponsored)), 20July06 (where Michael
Cassidy CBE, EMBA85, President of London Chamber of Commerce
& Chairman of Museum of London spoke), 20Sept06
(Peter Cullum, MBA76, Exec.Chairman of Towergate
Partnership, also UK Enterpreneur 2005 spoke).
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Back in Feb 2002, I started my Executive
MBA course at Cass Business School (then City
University Business School) with the aim to crystallise
my business experience, but most important of all
was to network with like minded people from other
industries/ walks of life.
Having graduated in 2004, to enhance the networking
and give back to the MBA course, I have enabled
part of this site as a forum to facilitate this.
Please feel free to participate, please also do
observe the guidelines (plus Terms & Conditions
of forum).
Please also see below (or on CassAlumni.org):
1.) The Cass MBA group on LinkedIn info (since
July04),
2.) EMBA Club (EMBA alumni networking) (since Jan05).
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Cass MBA Alumni please
note (since July 2004 you can now join
other MBA Alumni on LinkedIn, & network with senior
executives world-wide, by Oct07. we have 430+
MBA Alumni)
Cass Alumni who are
users, you can join the
group within LinkedIn. For those that are already
registered as alumni on Cass' official database, you
would have already received an invite, if not, please
email me
for your personal invite (please specify when you
graduated from your Cass MBA course). Alternatively,
you could also send me a request via my
profile on LinkedIn.
EMBA Club for EMBA
and MBA FT alumni:
We have started organising exclusive events for Cass
MBA Alumni. The first event has taken place 20th
January 2005, we had close to 30 people turned up,
email us
for the photo links. Our 2nd event was on the
17th Feb05, with over 47 ppl registered. For our revival
23Mar06 event, we had just over 40 people turned up,
see the CassAlumni.org
website to see some of the event's photos.
Our next
EMBA Club social events for MBA alumni only
will take place on 29November06, if you have not heard
from us, please email EMBAClub
to get your personal invitation.
Calling all MBA &
EMBA alumni, please go
here and register or update your latest contact details
with Cass Business School Alumni office! Many thanks.
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