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Executive Management

Executive Management

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Matt Wilson, Chief Executive Officer

Matt Wilson lives to build new worlds of play as Light & Wonder’s Chief Executive Officer. As the head honcho - and head gamer - Matt leads the strategic growth plans for the Company and Gaming team while overseeing product development, production, supply chain and sales of the Company’s Gaming products, systems and services.

An experienced Gaming industry executive, he is an accomplished leader known for driving greatness, delivering double-digit growth, capitalizing on new business opportunities, and developing strong customer relationships. In his previous role as Light & Wonder’s Executive Vice President and Group Chief Executive of Gaming, he led the strategic growth plans for the Gaming team while overseeing product development, production, supply chain and sales of the Company’s Gaming products, systems and services. Prior to Light & Wonder, Matt served as President and Managing Director, Americas at Aristocrat. During his tenure with Aristocrat, he also served as Senior Vice President of Global Gaming Operations, and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Americas.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong and completed the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School. Always up for a player-favorite, Matt likes to play any of the Dancing Drums series games.

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Oliver Chow, Interim Chief Financial Officer

Oliver Chow is Light & Wonder’s head of numbers as Interim Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Oliver oversees the Company’s global financial strategy to support sustainable growth and maximize long term shareholder value. He oversees the Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Facilities, IT and Procurement functions of the Company.

He is a seasoned financial executive with more than 15 years of gaming, banking and entertainment experience in financial leadership and operational roles. His strong leadership ability has led to enterprise process improvement, change management and developing a high performing team to provide continuing opportunities to succeed.

Oliver joined the Company in October 2022 as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance. Prior to joining the Company, Oliver spent over five years at Aristocrat where he last served as the Gaming CFO of the Americas, EMEA and Customer Experience Solutions. His previous finance experience in various other industries include banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and entertainment with Deluxe Entertainment Services.

Oliver earned his Executive MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He is also on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Southern Nevada, where he serves as Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair. When he’s not crunching numbers on his fingers, he loves hitting jackpots in Jackpot Party, while listening to the Dave Matthews Band on repeat.

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Dylan Slaney, Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer, iGaming

As CEO of iGaming, Dylan Slaney leads strategic growth plans for the iGaming business across the global digital markets, overseeing product and game development, operations and sales of the iGaming ecosystem and games. Dylan joined the Company in October 2017 and under his leadership the iGaming business has seen year-over-year record growth, and a series of successful and highly strategic studio acquisitions, including the launch into live casino.

Dylan joined Light & Wonder from dunnhumby, a world-leading data science business where he held a variety of senior commercial and product roles. With more than 15 years of experience spanning media, data and analytics, product and consulting, gained from outside the Gaming industry, Dylan continues to drive the agenda on enriching customer and player experiences through data-driven insight.

Whenever he takes a few moments away from dominating the global iGaming business and planning his next bold leap forward, Dylan loves to spin the reels on Coin Combo.

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Siobhan Lane, Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer, Gaming

Siobhan Lane is a senior global gaming executive with a track record of driving business results through strong strategic and executional alignment, with a focus on building high-performing teams and an engaging culture. As Light & Wonder’s Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Gaming, her superpower is overseeing all aspects of our land-based Gaming business, demonstrating an innate desire to bring teams together to do their best work. Prior to being named CEO of Gaming, she served as Light & Wonder’s Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer and led the North America region of the Gaming business.

Throughout her distinguished career, Ms. Lane has been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Emerging Leader by Global Gaming Business, one of the Gaming Industry’s Most Influential Female Leaders and, most recently, was named to the Global Gaming Business 2023 25 People to Watch List. A strong advocate for women in Gaming, Ms. Lane serves as the 2nd Vice President on the Global Gaming Women (GGW) Board of Directors.

Born in Ireland, Ms. Lane graduated with distinction from Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and International Business and also completed the Executive Development Program at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Rich Schneider, Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer

Rich Schneider is the man behind the curtain at Light & Wonder, serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer. Rich brings his people and product expertise to the Company to push the status quo and lead the product development team on the exciting journey to become the leading, cross-platform games company. In this role, Rich oversees L&W’s land-based gaming product strategy, enhances collaboration across platforms and furthers the Company’s position as the industry’s product and technology leader.

A proven leader in the gaming industry, Rich has 30 years of experience in creating and delivering gaming products. Prior to joining the Company, he served as Chief Product Officer at Aristocrat. He also held executive roles at Walker Digital Table Systems, Acres Gaming and numerous leadership roles at IGT. Rich knows what makes a good game.

An advocate for open standards, he was a founding member of the Gaming Standards Association and served the organization as a Board Member and as its Vice Chairman. Rich is a passionate outdoorsman and lends his time to Save Red Rock Canyon.

Rich graduated from University of Nevada Las Vegas College of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree. If Rich is not thinking of the newest product, he might be casting a line for bonuses in Super Reel ‘Em In.

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James Sottile, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

Jim Sottile is leader of the law as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer for Light & Wonder, overseeing the Company’s legal strategy and operations. Jim brings more than 30 years of experience working across multiple industries. He is an accomplished legal strategist as well as an intentional, experienced leader who hates legalese and loves poetry.

Jim was most recently with Jones Day, where he was a partner in its New York office. A stellar attorney, he was named as a notable practitioner by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers from 2005-2018 and recognized in The Best Lawyers in America from 2011-2018.

Jim received his J.D. from Georgetown University and his B.S. in Finance from the University of Florida. After a long day of reading lots of documents and making legal decisions, he enjoys a good game of Jackpot Party.

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Roxane Lukas, Chief People Capability Officer

Roxane Lukas is Light & Wonder’s top human potential champion as Chief People Capability Officer. Roxane is a powerhouse with passion for creating environments where leaders and the teams they lead can do their best work. She is accountable for ensuring Light & Wonder’s People Capabilities are in place to meet the evolving needs of the dynamic global business, that leadership capability at all levels is a key reason we win, and why Creators love to create here. In this role she leads the People executives for each business, and the People executives overseeing our Centers of Expertise – Corporate Social Responsibility; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Rewards; Talent Management; Learning and Development; and our People Systems and Service Center functions. She is an outcome driven strategist, architect, coach, and a facilitator of healthy teamwork, drawing from her multiple career experiences building, scaling and leading People functions. Her specific focus areas include organizational and leadership development, mentoring, talent management, executive coaching and overall operating culture.

Roxane is dedicated to finding creative ways to build mutually beneficial experiences for our Creators and the company. She was previously the Chief People Officer for Scopely Inc., and TechStyle Fashion Group, where she shaped people strategy, built and led the global People Team, and scaled leadership practices during critical years of change, maturation, and performance. Roxane held various HR executive positions at Electronic Arts (EA), including VP, Global HR for the interactive division including mobile, social and led the team through business transformation and all the talent challenges of worldwide growth that underpin business outcomes.

Always working to lend her talents to others through guidance, Roxane is a mentor to women early in their career and an advisor to early-stage companies. She is a life-long learner, a Certified facilitator of IMPAQ’s B State’s Breakthrough Leadership Team System and certified in Soul Centered Facilitation and “CHH” (Consciousness, Health and Healing) from the University of Santa Monica. Roxane graduated from Skidmore College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature. She also earned a Master of Arts degree in Executive Development from New York University, as well as a MA in Spiritual Psychology for the University of Santa Monica. Roxane loves the relaxing fun of L&W’s casual games!

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Michael Lorelli, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer

Michael Lorelli thinks up the master plans as Light & Wonder’s Chief Strategy Officer. Michael joined the Company in 2020, initially serving as Senior Vice President of Strategy. He played a key role in the MacAndrews & Forbes share sale, led the divestiture processes for the Lottery and Sports businesses and spearheaded the development of our new strategic plan to become the leading cross-platform global games company. He, along with his talented team, manage strategic planning, corporate development, and integration for L&W.

Michael has more than a decade of experience in leading teams to strategic greatness and operational improvement. He previously served as the Senior Vice President of Strategy at DJO, a global provider of high-quality orthopedic devices. There he ran the strategy, corporate development and continuous improvement functions through a period of intense restructuring for the company.

Prior to DJO, Michael was a Director at Dell for more than five years in various roles across the Strategy, Procurement and Supply Chain functions. Before this, he worked for Alcoa on cost transformation work during the financial crisis. Michael started his career at McKinsey & Co. where he developed his ongoing passion for partnering with great people to solve novel and complex problems in ways that create superlative value.

Michael received his JD in Law from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. After planning and strategizing for the Company, he will often be found playing one of L&W’s many great games, his favorites being Ultimate Fire Link, Quick Hit and Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em.

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Victor Blanco, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Victor Blanco is the head tech wizard at Light & Wonder, serving as Chief Technology Officer. Victor’s passion and innovative energy drives the Company’s technology organization and ground-breaking ideas into fruition. In this role, Victor works closely with our corporate and business unit leaders to ensure that L&W is leading the digital transformation across our industry and strategically amplify our great games with the latest tools and technologies.

Victor is a pioneering technology leader who is passionate about delivering products that range from low power embedded devices to scalable services in the cloud. Most recently, Victor served as Chief Technology Officer at Aristocrat where he was instrumental in building the technology strategy and organizations that contributed to a successful turnaround for Aristocrat’s land-based gaming business. He also led Aristocrat’s expansion into social casino and casual games and launched Aristocrat’s office and technology hub in Austin.

Prior to joining Aristocrat, Victor served as the director of software architecture for HTC supporting the launch of the Google’s first Android smartphone. Victor also held multiple software engineering roles at Microsoft where he was part of the team that developed the first Xbox game console and online gaming service.

Victor graduated from Texas A&M University, is an avid traveler and huge fan of classic 80’s arcades and pinball. When he’s not thinking through the latest tech strategy, you might find him at one of our classic pins on campus.

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