IGT names Nick Khin as new IGT Global Gaming president
Khin has been COO and SVP of Gaming since 2015
International Game Technology (IGT) has promoted from within to fill a top-level role, naming longtime chief operating officer Nick Khin as the new president of its Global Gaming division.
Khin has been with the firm since 2013 and has been the company’s COO and SVP of gaming since 2015. In his new role, he will manage the Global Gaming business unit, including studios, technology, sales, games and hardware, manufacturing and services, and systems.
He will report to CEO Vince Sadusky, who called him the obvious choice” for the new role.
“Under his leadership, IGT is consistently releasing top games and strengthening its performance in every game category,” Sadusky added. “Nick’s knowledge, leadership and passion have earned him the respect of colleagues throughout our industry.”
IGT works with a variety of companies and lottery corporations in Canada and is rated by Eilers and Krejcik as the top online gaming supplier in the country.
IGT reshuffles executives ahead of Everi spinoff merger
Khin’s promotion is the latest executive rejig at IGT this year as it prepares to be taken private by Apollo Global Management in a $6.3 billion merger of its gaming division with gaming and payments specialist Everi.
Sadusky will take up the CEO role in the new business while non-executive director Marco Drago has been replaced on the board by his son Enrico Drago, who is stepping down from his role as IGT PlayDigital CEO and has been succeeded by Gil Rotem in a new role of PlayDigital president under Sadusky.
After the merger, all that will remain of IGT as a standalone outside of the merged company will be its Global Lottery business. That arm has a sizable Canadian presence and in January struck a deal with Loto-Québec to supply VLTs across La Belle Province.