{"id":777040293,"date":"2026-04-09T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777040293"},"modified":"2026-04-21T12:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:42:34","slug":"light-wonder-appoints-phil-stormonth-as-senior-director-of-sales-for-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/light-wonder-appoints-phil-stormonth-as-senior-director-of-sales-for-asia","title":{"rendered":"Light &amp; Wonder appoints Phil Stormonth as Senior Director of Sales for Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The global gaming technology company has restructured its Asia sales team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>US.- Light &amp; Wonder has restructured its Asia sales team, <strong>Phil Stormonth<\/strong> as Senior Director of Sales for the region. Stormonth joined the company in June 2025, having previously held positions at IGT and Aristocrat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will report to Jamie Dorbian, SVP and Managing Director, International, and oversee a team including David Maguire, Richard Thomas, Daisy Lou and Eisa Fong. Meanwhile, Ken Jolly has transitioned from VP and Managing Director, Asia, to VP Strategic Development, Asia and Amit Patel has been promoted to Director, APAC Systems Sales for Asia and ANZ, reporting to Stormonth.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/novomatic-300x200.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/novomatic-appoints-birgit-wimmer-as-first-female-chairwoman-of-the-supervisory-board'>NOVOMATIC appoints Birgit Wimmer as first female chairwoman of the Supervisory Board<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global gaming technology company has restructured its Asia sales team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777006346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Light & Wonder has strategically restructured its Asia sales organization, appointing Phil Stormonth as Senior Director of Sales for the region. This realignment includes the promotion of Amit Patel to Director, APAC Systems Sales, and a transition for Ken Jolly to VP Strategic Development, signaling a refined focus on market penetration and client engagement across Asia and ANZ.","focusai_entities":"Light & Wonder, Phil Stormonth, IGT, Aristocrat, Jamie Dorbian, David Maguire, Richard Thomas, Daisy Lou, Eisa Fong, Ken Jolly, Amit Patel","focusai_location":"Asia, ANZ","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Asia Market Strategy","query":"How will this sales team restructuring specifically enhance Light & Wonder's market penetration and GGR capture within key Asian gaming verticals, particularly considering diverse regulatory frameworks?"},{"label":"Leadership Impact","query":"What strategic shifts in B2B client engagement and product distribution are anticipated under Phil Stormonth's leadership, leveraging his prior experience at IGT and Aristocrat?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16331],"tags":[25207],"class_list":["post-777040293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-elsewhere-news","tag-light-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777040293","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777040293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777040293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040307,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777040293\/revisions\/777040307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777006346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777040293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777040293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777040293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}