{"id":28009,"date":"2022-03-11T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28009"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:35:07","slug":"victorias-vgccc-appoints-annette-kimmitt-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/victorias-vgccc-appoints-annette-kimmitt-as-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Victoria\u2019s VGCCC appoints Annette Kimmitt as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Annette Kimmitt previously served as the Global Growth Markets Leader at Ernst &amp; Young.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) has announced that <strong>Annette Kimmitt <\/strong>has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. Kimmitt, who\u00a0was CEO and managing partner of Australia\u2019s largest law firm, MinterEllison, between October 2018 to March 2021, will start as CEO on March 21, replacing Scott May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kimmitt has also worked as global growth markets leader at multinational consultancy Ernst &amp; Young. In January 2021, she became a non-executive director, chairman of the audit and risk committee and a member of the investment committee of investment firm Mirrabooka Investments Ltd. She became a non-executive director of Trawalla Group in May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is also a\u00a0<strong>board member of the Melbourne Business School<\/strong>, chairing the finance, risk and audit courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/victorias-vgcc-appoints-fran-thorn-as-first-chair\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fran Thorn<\/a>, VGCCC chair, said: \u201cHer background in the business world and her experience in audit and risk management, in particular, will be a huge asset to our regulation of the gambling and liquor industries and ensuring harm minimisation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cScott has shown great leadership during what has been a very busy time for the VGCCC, including overseeing the work to separate the regulation of gambling and liquor and our ongoing response to the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Kimmitt previously served as the Global Growth Markets Leader at Ernst &amp; Young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Annette Kimmitt has been appointed CEO of the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC), effective March 21. Her extensive background in audit, risk management, and leadership roles at MinterEllison and Ernst & Young is expected to bolster the VGCCC's regulatory oversight of the gambling and liquor industries, with a focus on harm minimization. This leadership transition occurs as the VGCCC continues to refine its governance frameworks, following the separation of gambling and liquor regulatory functions.","focusai_entities":"Annette Kimmitt, Ernst & Young, Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC), MinterEllison, Scott May, Mirrabooka Investments Ltd., Trawalla Group, Melbourne Business School, Fran Thorn","focusai_location":"Australia, Victoria, Melbourne","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"VGCCC Strategic Shift?","query":"Given Annette Kimmitt's background in audit and risk management, what specific strategic shifts or enhanced enforcement priorities can the iGaming sector anticipate from the VGCCC under her leadership, particularly concerning governance frameworks and harm minimization?"},{"label":"Impact on Operator Compliance?","query":"How might the new CEO's focus on audit and risk management translate into tangible changes in B2C licensing conditions, responsible gambling obligations, or AML compliance requirements for Victorian gambling operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-28009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28015,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28009\/revisions\/28015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}