{"id":777024217,"date":"2025-03-18T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777024217"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:44:43","slug":"agem-elects-new-chair-and-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-elects-new-chair-and-board","title":{"rendered":"AGEM elects new chair and board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Comstock has been elected as chairman of the casino industry trade body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US.- The <strong>Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers<\/strong>&nbsp;(AGEM) has announced that<strong> Ryan Comstock<\/strong>, chief operating officer (COO) at Ainsworth Game Technology, has been elected as chairman for a two-year term. Previously AGEM treasurer, Comstock succeeds<strong> Robert Parente<\/strong>, executive vice president and chief business development officer at Light &amp; Wonder, who will become treasurer for a one-year term.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thomas Jingoli<\/strong>, EVP and COO at Konami Gaming, has been appointed association secretary for a one-year term. <strong>Elaine Hodgson<\/strong>, president and chief executive of Incredible Technologies; <strong>Luke Orchard<\/strong>, senior vice president, chief compliance and risk management officer at International Game Technology, <strong>David Lucchese<\/strong>, EVP of sales, marketing and digital at Everi Holdings,<strong> Lauralyn Sandoval<\/strong>, vice president of new markets at Aristocrat Gaming and <strong>Randy Gilbert<\/strong>, chief financial officer and chief operation officer at Table Trac were appointed as directors for a one-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AGEM is a Las Vegas-based trade association representing manufacturers and suppliers of electronic gaming devices, lotteries, systems, table games, key components and support products for the gaming industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;AGEM Index&nbsp;of members&#8217; share prices reached <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/agem-index-up-9-2-in-february\">1,780.62 points in February<\/a>. That\u2019s an increase of 150.62 points or 9.2 per cent&nbsp;sequentially. In year-on-year terms, the index was up 41.2 per cent, or 519.52 points. Eight of the 12 AGEM Index companies saw stock price increases, resulting in eight positive contributions and four negative contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Comstock has been elected as chairman of the casino industry trade body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777018870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Ryan Comstock, COO at Ainsworth Game Technology, has been elected chairman of the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) for a two-year term, succeeding Robert Parente of Light & Wonder. The article also details other key appointments to the AGEM board and highlights the strong performance of the AGEM Index in February, which saw a significant sequential and year-on-year increase.","focusai_entities":"Ryan Comstock, Ainsworth Game Technology, Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, AGEM, Robert Parente, Light & Wonder, Thomas Jingoli, Konami Gaming, Elaine Hodgson, Incredible Technologies, Luke Orchard, International Game Technology, David Lucchese, Everi Holdings, Lauralyn Sandoval, Aristocrat Gaming, Randy Gilbert, Table Trac","focusai_location":"US, Las Vegas","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (1.0), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"AGEM's Strategic Priorities?","query":"What strategic priorities will the new AGEM leadership, under Chairman Comstock, pursue to advance the interests of gaming equipment manufacturers, particularly concerning regulatory frameworks or market expansion?"},{"label":"Impact on Supplier Valuations?","query":"Given the significant increase in the AGEM Index, what are the underlying factors driving this growth, and how might this trend influence future M&A activity or capital allocation strategies among gaming equipment suppliers?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16331],"tags":[23731],"class_list":["post-777024217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-elsewhere-news","tag-agem-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777024217","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=777024217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777024217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777024240,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777024217\/revisions\/777024240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777018870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777024217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777024217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777024217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}