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| Reidar Nordby
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Biography Nordby has
served as CEO of Norsk Tipping since 1989, and holds or has held many
leadership positions in the lottery industry including that of Chairman of
Viking Lotto, a multi-national lottery game that is played in Norway, Finland,
Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. Ironically enough International Lottery Expo is
being held at the Hotel Viking in Newport. He is also the initiator of
the WLA Security Control Standards and hosted lotteries from around the world
in Oslo in 1999 at a combined meeting of AILE and Intertoto which led to the
official merger of both groups last year in Scotland, forming the World Lottery
Association. After serving on the WLA Executive Committee and the
Transition Task Force, Nordby was elected President to lead the world lotteries
of the WLA. He received the Order in appreciation for his work for
Sweden and active contribution to the co-operation between Sweden and Norway.
During International Lottery Expo, in Newport, Rhode Island, Nordby
received the Major Peter J. O’Connell Lifetime Lottery Achievement Award
and was honoured at a presentation ceremony.Nordby is the first recipient of
this Award to come from outside North America. He is an engineer and
resides in Oslo with his wife Anne. They have a son and a daughter.
Reidar Nordby Appointed Member of the Advisory Board of
Strategic Development at China Center for Lottery Studies at Peking
University
BEIJING, China (November 24, 2008) -- Reidar
Nordby sends us news that he recently attended the 5th Conference on Gaming
Industry and Public Welfare...............Subscribers |
