Roger Parkes

Roger Parkes
Consultant

Roger is respected and acknowledged internationally for his knowledge of on-line and off-line industry compliance best practice, leadership and management. Published author on the industry who speaks regularly at international conferences on complex issues in relation to developing technologies, licensing and regulation.

His experience includes senior roles in government gambling regulatory bodies in New Zealand, Alderney and the UK’s Gambling Commission, along with some of the industry’s biggest gambling operators. He is an experienced executive and non-executive director, previously sitting on a number of enterprise boards under the flagship Super Group Holdings (SGHC) ownership and having been an augural board member of GamStop, the not for profit agency managing the GB national self-exclusion scheme.

He has recently been in the UAE, assisting in setting up the region’s first licensed online lottery, sportsbook and casino operations, and is currently Director of Regulatory Affairs with the independent test laboratory, Gaming Associates.

He was the recipient of the inaugural Compliance Lifetime Achievement Award.