GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Dermot Smurfit, CEO, GAN

The GGB Podcast sits down this week with Dermot Smurfit, the president and CEO of GAN, the groundbreaking online gaming platform provider on why GAN has brought together the best of sports betting and iGaming for U.S. and North American casino companies.

GLOBAL GAMING BUSINESS PODCAST: Dermot Smurfit, CEO, GAN

The race is on to get U.S. gaming companies online for both sports betting and iGaming. GAN, however, had a head start. Dermot Smurfit took a successful European gaming provider to the U.S. nearly 10 years ago and concentrated on the newly discovered phenomenon of social casino. Now many of GAN’s clients have joined real money online gaming without missing a beat. And the recent purchase of CoolBet will give GAN clients cutting-edge technology when attracting and retaining new customers. Smurfit joined GGB Publisher Roger Gros via Zoom from his Prius in Miami in July.


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Articles by Author: Roger Gros

Roger Gros is publisher of Global Gaming Business, the industry’s leading gaming trade publication, and all its related publications. Prior to joining Global Gaming Business, Gros was president of Inlet Communications, an independent consulting firm. He was vice president of Casino Journal Publishing Group from 1984-2000, and held virtually every editorial title during his tenure. Gros was editor of Casino Journal, the National Gaming Summary and the Atlantic City Insider, and was the founding editor of Casino Player magazine. He was a co-founder of the American Gaming Summit and the Southern Gaming Summit conferences and trade shows.
Roger Gros is the author of the best-selling book, "How to Win at Casino Gambling" (Carlton Books, 1995), now in its fourth edition. Gros was named “Businessman of the Year” for 1998 by the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Gaming Association in 2012 as part of the annual AGA Communications Awards.