At their General Assembly, the national lotteries united under the umbrella of The European Lotteries have elected their new Executive Committee for the 2015-2017 period. The General Assembly preceded a two day congress in Oslo, hosted by the Norwegian lottery Norsk Tipping.
Hansjörg Höltkemeier has been elected through a direct vote by the members as President of the association. He has been a member of the Managing Board of the Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin (Germany) since 2005 and a member of EL Executive Committee since 2009. The General Assembly also appointed Fernando Paes Afonso of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (Portugal) as First Vice-President and Robert Chvátal of Sazka (Czech Republic) as Second
Vice-President.
The newly elected members of the Executive Committee of The European Lotteries are (in alphabetical order):
Torbjørn ALMLID, President and CEO, NORSK TIPPING AS, Norway
Fabio Attilio CAIROLI, Managing Director, LOTTOMATICA, Italy
Robert CHVÁTAL, CEO, SAZKA a.s., Czech Republic
Andy DUNCAN, CEO, CAMELOT UK LOTTERIES LTD, United Kingdom
Inmaculada GARCÍA, President and CEO, SOCIEDAD ESTATAL LOTERÍAS Y APUESTAS DEL ESTADO, Spain
Jannie HAEK, CEO, NATIONALE LOTERIJ/LOTERIE NATIONALE, Belgium
Hansjörg HÖLTKEMEIER, Member of the Managing Board, DEUTSCHE KLASSENLOTTERIE BERLIN, Germany
Franci KRIŽAN, Member of the Board, LOTERIJA SLOVENIJE, d.d., Slovenia
Fernando PAES AFONSO, CEO, GAMES DEPARTMENT OF SANTA CASA DA MISERICÓRDIA DE LISBOA, Portugal
Stéphane PALLEZ, President and CEO, LA FRANÇAISE DES JEUX, France
Arjan VAN’T VEER, Lead Management, STAATSLOTERIJ, The Netherlands
The Executive Committee has held its first meeting to commence the work to plan the future on the basis of the association’s newly adopted ‘Oslo resolution’.