(Jamma) At its general meeting held yesterday in Tel Aviv, Israel, European Lotteries, the umbrella organization for national lotteries across Europe, elected a new executive board which will serve until 2015.
Friedrich Stickler was reconfirmed as president while the general assembly appointed as first vice president Christophe Blanchard-Dignac, president and CEO of La Française des Jeux, and second vice president, Hansjorg Höltkemeier, member of the Board of Directors of the Deutsche Klassenlotterie in Berlin, Germany.
The members who will make up the new executive committee are (in alphabetical order):
- Torbjorn Almlid, President and CEO, Norsk Tipping AS, Norway
- Blanchard-Dignac Christophe, President and CEO, La Française des Jeux, France
- Höltkemeier Hansjorg, Member of the Management Board, DEUTSCHE Klassenlotterie BERLIN, Germany
- Franci Krizan, Chief Operating Officer, Loterija SLOVENIJE, Slovenia
- Afonso Paes Fernando, Vice-President and CEO of the Santa Casa da Misericordia Games Department in Lisbon, Portugal
– the Chief Executive Officer Emilio Petron SISAL SpA, Italy
- Pittevils Ivan, Managing Director, National Lottery, Belgium
- Wojciech SZPIL, Chief Executive Officer, Totaliser Sportowy Sp. Poland
- STICKLER Friedrich, board member, Österreichische Lotterien GmbH, Austria
- Diana Thompson, Chief Executive, CAMELOT LOTTERIES UK LTD., United Kingdom
- Veer van't Arjan, Lead Management, NEDERLANDSE Staatsloterij, The Netherlands
