{"id":13392,"date":"2021-01-14T22:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T22:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13392"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:41:35","slug":"agem-names-new-president-and-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-names-new-president-and-board","title":{"rendered":"AGEM names new president and board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>David Lucchese replaces Luke Orchard as president of the board while another six officials were elected for a one-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Asia.- The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) has announced results of the election for its board of directors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Lucchese, executive vice president at Everi, was elected as board&#8217;s new president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucchese, who previously AGEM vice president, will replace Luke Orchard,  senior vice president, chief compliance &amp; risk management officer at IGT, for a two-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orchard now moves to become vice president of the association for a one-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elaine Hodgson, president and CEO of Incredible Technologies, Robert Parente, senior vice president of Scientific Games, and Thomas Jingoli, executive vice president of Konami Gaming, were also elected as AGEM vice presidents for one-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Fisher, senior vice president of Crane Payment Innovations, was appointed as AGEM secretary. Hector Fernandez, president of Aristocrat Technologies in the Americas, was voted treasurer. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, Daron Dorsey, senior vice president for Ainsworth Game Technology in the Americas, will be AGEM\u2019s general counsel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/manufacturer-stock-prices-remain-strong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">187 gaming equipment manufactures<\/a><\/em><\/strong> based in 22 countries are members of the AGEM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lucchese replaces Luke Orchard as president of the board while another six officials were elected for a one-year term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) has announced the results of its board of directors election, with David Lucchese of Everi elected as the new president for a two-year term, succeeding Luke Orchard of IGT. The election also saw new vice presidents, secretary, treasurer, and general counsel appointed from leading B2B gaming suppliers. These governance changes are significant for the global gaming equipment manufacturing sector, which AGEM represents across 22 countries.","focusai_entities":"David Lucchese, Everi, Luke Orchard, IGT, Elaine Hodgson, Incredible Technologies, Robert Parente, Scientific Games, Thomas Jingoli, Konami Gaming, Eric Fisher, Crane Payment Innovations, Hector Fernandez, Aristocrat Technologies, Daron Dorsey, Ainsworth Game Technology, Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, AGEM","focusai_location":"","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), compliance_legal (0.75), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM Strategic Priorities?","query":"What strategic priorities will the newly elected AGEM board, under David Lucchese's presidency, pursue to advance the interests of gaming equipment manufacturers globally?"},{"label":"Impact on B2B Advocacy?","query":"How might the new AGEM leadership structure influence the association's advocacy efforts regarding B2B licensing, regulatory harmonization, or emerging gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16331],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-13392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-elsewhere-news","tag-agem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13408,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13392\/revisions\/13408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}