John Connelly spent his first years as CEO of Interblock Gaming getting the North American casino industry comfortable with the idea of offering customers electronic table games.
Connelly was a top executive at slot machine giant Bally Technologies for 11 years before it was acquired by Scientific Games in 2014 for $5.1 billion. A year later, he joined Interblock, a privately held Slovenian-based company, to help increase the company’s market share in the U.S.
Interest in electronic table games — traditional table games that are played through an interactive video format much like a slot machine — grew in his eight years as Interblock’s CEO.
