Biography: Dan Bower

Dan Bower graciously accepts the Guy Simonis Life time award.

Dan Bower During the 2002 Convention in Adelaide, Dan Bower became the second recipient of the WLA’s Guy Simonis Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding service to the lottery industry. Dan Bower co-founded Scientific Games in 1973 and played an instrumental role in the development of instant lottery games in North America throughout the 1970s and 1980s. At Scientific Games, he provided consultancy services and marketing assistance to more than two dozen lotteries in the United States and Canada, before joining British American Banknote (BABN) as marketing consultant in 1988.

From 1991 until 1994, he served as Chairman of Automated Wagering International before becoming Co-Chairman of Tele-Com Productions. State and international lotteries have benefited from TeleCom’s creativity and winning brands since 1986, when “Let’s Go To The Races®” made its debut in Barbados.

Guy Simonis and Daniel Bower, Principal of Telecom Game Factory.

TeleCom licenses various board game trademarks for the lottery industry and has done business in over 40 lottery jurisdictions. The company also supports its own line of original games. Dan, 70, lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He is married and has four children and eight grandchildren. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1954 and served in the United States Air Force as a radar controller for three years before embarking upon a career in marketing and advertising. Prior to joining the lottery industry, he held management positions at The Kroger Company, Fisher Foods and J & H International Corporation.

Scientific Games Acquires Assets of TeleCom Game Factory
ALPHARETTA, Georgia, USA (February 22, 2006) -- Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) announced today it has acquired certain assets of TeleCom Game Factory (TGF), a full-service content and technical/delivery provider to lotteries worldwide...................Read the full story