{"id":2620,"date":"2017-05-15T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartplay.com\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:43:16","slug":"change-smartplay-leadership-manage-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartplay.com\/change-smartplay-leadership-manage-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Smartplay Leadership to Manage Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2620\" class=\"elementor elementor-2620\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64756b71 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"64756b71\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1656605e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1656605e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p align=\"left\">We&#8217;re excited to announce changes to manage company growth and new business development initiatives.<\/p>\n\n<p align=\"left\">Current President and Company Founder David Michaud steps down as President, assuming a client support and operations role. Michaud founded Smartplay in 1993 growing the company to 35 employees and working with over 200 lottery organizations in 85 countries.<\/p>\n\n<p align=\"left\">Executive Vice President Tom Markert will assume the role of President as of May 1. Tom, also a founding partner, was the first employee of Smartplay in April of 1993. He entered the lottery industry in 1988 as an engineer at Beitel Lottery Products. Over the years, Tom&#8217;s role has expanded from overseeing manufacturing to sales and client services.<\/p>\n\n<p align=\"left\">New to Smartplay is Darrell Smith who assumes the role of Vice President, Sales and Marketing &#8212; focusing on expanding the company&#8217;s digital product line globally as well as spearheading expansion into the gaming space. Darrell served the gaming industry for the last 13 years &#8212; eight years as Creative Director at SCA Gaming and then as principal of Game Creative &#8212; a game development and marketing company.<\/p>\n\n<p align=\"left\">Lottery veteran, Sales and Marketing Associate, Mariana Mokritski will remain focused on servicing existing clients with current and future projects.<\/p>\n\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;These changes will give us the foundation to manage our future growth and innovation. We&#8217;ve had great success with our new digital systems and are focused on sharing this story globally,&#8221; said Tom Markert. &#8220;Darrell brings the experience in marketing, digital development and gaming to assist in our growth as we see the gaming and lottery industries continue to converge.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<p align=\"left\">Markert notes that the company is experiencing no slowdown in the manufacturing of traditional lottery systems. &#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing is an increased interest in the security that traditional mechanical machines provide. Our growth is coming from innovative lottery organizations that are combining digital and mechanical systems.&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce changes to manage company growth and new business development initiatives. Current President and Company Founder David Michaud steps down as President, assuming a client support and operations role. Michaud founded Smartplay in 1993 growing the company to 35 employees and working with over 200 lottery organizations in 85 countries. 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