Gaming leaders Brian Lessman and Kristian Milne join GLI

October 6, 2022 6:10 PM
Photo: Gaming Laboratories International LLC
  • CDC Gaming Reports
October 6, 2022 6:10 PM
  • CDC Gaming Reports

Gaming-industry leaders Brian Lessman and Kristian Milne have joined Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) as account executives on the supplier-focused North American Client Services team. Each brings diverse knowledge across land-based gaming, igaming, and sports betting that will help GLI’s clients enhance their strategies for success.

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Lessman has more than 20 years of casino-industry supplier and operator experience. Most recently, he served as Hub Operations Supervisor/Oddsmaker at USBookmaking and  has applied his sportsbook expertise at William Hill and CG Sportsbooks. He also has in-casino experience, serving as casino manager at Silverton Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas; table-games pit manager for the Seminole Tribe of Florida; poker manager for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe; and table-games supervisor for the Tohono O’odham Nation.

Milne has more than two decades of gaming experience and comes to GLI from Global Payments, where he served as Client Services Account Manager for igaming. He has also served the gaming industry as East Coast Casino Gaming Account Manager for DiTRONICS; as Casino Gaming Account Manager at Crane Payment Solutions; and as Casino Gaming Sales/Industry Support Representative for MEI, Incorporated, where he began his gaming industry career as a Test Engineering Technician. He holds an electrical-engineering degree from Penn State University.

“GLI’s clients will be well served by Brian and Kristian, whose diverse experience and insights add depth to and further bolster our strong and knowledgeable supplier-focused team,” said Patrick Cottingham, Client Services Manager.

“It is such an exciting period of growth and technological evolution in the gaming industry, and Brian and Kristian will be valuable assets to our clients as we continually work to help them take full advantage of today’s boundless opportunities,” added Salim L. Adatia, Vice-President of Client Services for North America.