Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has promoted Zachary Kastelic to Vice President of Legal. Previously, Kastelic served as Associate General Counsel. In his role, he oversees GLI’s legal department, including contracts, due diligence, litigation, and other general corporate matters.

“Compliance is our primary responsibility to the global gaming industry, and our legal team, alongside with our compliance teams, are at the forefront of our compliance efforts. I am very pleased that Zachary will be leading our global legal team helping to ensure we maintain the very highest levels of compliance as we continue to lead the industry in new technologies,” GLI President & CEO James Maida said.

He earned his J.D. from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He also holds a Sports Wagering and Integrity Certificate from UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and a Bachelor’s Degree from Ottawa University. He is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, Kansas Bar Association, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri and is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States.

Kastelic began his career at GLI in 2022 as Assistant Corporate Counsel. Prior to joining GLI, he served as Vice President of Compliance and Legal at PlayUp Limited.

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Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has promoted Andrea Bossard to Vice President, Engineering from Senior Director, Engineering. In her new role, she will work to optimize GLI’s delivery for land-based suppliers, regulators, and operators globally.

Bossard has been with GLI since 2006, holding multiple management roles within the organization. She has a background in QA testing coupled with an education in mathematics and computer science.

“At GLI, we are heavily focused on effecting a world-class experience. Andrea’s warm and genuine approach, coupled with her vast market and technical knowledge, achieves this for both our team members and our customers. I am confident that her new role will bring even more success, and she will continue to inspire all of us around her,” said Chief Delivery Officer Mackenzie Haugh.

Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has become the first laboratory to achieve accreditation in Maranhão, Brazil. The accreditation allows GLI to perform tests and certification for the gambling and lottery industry interested in working with lottery and fixed-odds betting operators in the state of Maranhão.

The milestone is the latest in a series of regulatory achievements for GLI in Brazil. Lottery of the State of Maranhão is the third jurisdiction in Brazil to accredit laboratories, and GLI is accredited in all and the first to be authorized in all.

Cassiano Pereira Junior, president of Maranhão Parcerias (Mapa), highlighted the importance of the partnership between the Maranhão State Lottery (Lotema) and GLI. “Every day we strive to make Lotema even better, providing greater security for its users. The partnership with GLI is a concrete way of achieving this goal, as its certification laboratories play an important role for the gaming and lottery industry, guaranteeing the conformity, security, and integrity of the products and systems used by Lotema,” Cassiano explained.

“We are grateful to the Lottery of the State of Maranhão for granting GLI the laboratory accreditation, becoming the first to be authorized in Maranhão. It is extremely gratifying to see how Lotema empower themselves by trusting the technical compliance process to provide transparency, integrity, and accountability to all the industry stakeholders through the certification process. The laboratory accreditation is the first step for a successful implementation of the certification based on jurisdictional standards, and the reason why we at GLI take this step very seriously and with great priority every time a new jurisdiction opens. We feel responsible for being part of the solution towards a fast and efficient implementation of regulations, thus supporting further local industry development and sustainable growth. We are grateful to Lotema and excited to be part of its thriving industry,” said Karen Sierra-Hughes, Vice President of Latin America, Caribbean, and Spain.

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GLI has been working with regulators, lotteries, and industry stakeholders across the Latin American and Caribbean region for more than 26 years in their efforts toward regulation, sustainable growth, and eradicating illegal gaming. In Brazil, GLI has been side by side with government entities and all industry stakeholders for nearly 20 years, participating in public hearings in the Senate, Chamber of Deputies, and State government level, and in recent years, adding strategic local representation to strengthen their local support.