Mark Pace

Mark is a gaming industry executive with a career spanning land-based casino operations, slot machine manufacturing, gaming systems development, online gaming and lottery technical operations and regulatory affairs at the local and federal levels internationally.

His resume includes working at Harrah’s Entertainment at the property and corporate level, at WMS Gaming Inc. and at Scientific Games. He worked with the International Gaming Standards Association (IGSA) for fifteen years representing those gaming companies and was IGSA’s Treasurer and then Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2017 he joined the association as the Managing Director of GSA Europe. In 2018 he was named Vice President of IGSA in addition to his responsibilities looking after the European office.

In 2019, Mark was named co-project leader of the European Committee for Standardization’s TC/456 which, at the European Commission’s request, successfully created the first ever pan-European gaming standard for “Reporting in support of Online Gambling supervision”.

Mark has helped provide educational services to governmental agencies and regulatory authorities around the world focusing on pragmatic and technology friendly regulatory practices and solutions to protect vulnerable players. Most recently he has been working with the government of the Republic of Georgia and its regulatory authority, creating regulations and technical requirements for land-based and online gaming.

In February of 2024, Mark was appointed President of the International Gaming Standards Association.