Born in Leicester, September 1949. Shilton started training with his local club Leicester City aged 13. Within four years, Shilton had forced the legendary Gordon Banks' own departure from Leicester after the teenager gave the club an ultimatum over which goalkeeper should be first choice.

In May 1966, aged 16, Shilton made his debut for Leicester against Everton and his potential was quickly spotted to the extent that the Leicester management sided with their teenage prodigy and sold Banks.

He had impressed England manager Alf Ramsey, which led to Peter making his international debut against East Germany in November 1970.

After 286 appearances, Shilton left Leicester in 1974. He joined Stoke City for £325,000. Stoke were a struggling side, and upon relegation in 1977 Shilton asked for a transfer.

Nottingham Forest made an offer of £250,000, and Shilton signed a month into the new season.

Forest had just been promoted to the First Division and were on-the-up under Brian Clough. They won the League Cup, and then clinched the League Title in their first season back in the first division. Shilton made a save in the clinching 0-0 draw against Coventry City which critics regarded as his greatest ever.

Peter Shilton's tenure at Nottingham Forest was the most successful of his professional career.
However, in 1982, Shilton left Forest and joined Southampton, where his former international team-mates Kevin Keegan and Alan Ball were both playing.

In 1982, Shilton was a member of the England World Cup Team.

After the ’82 World Cup, Bobby Robson took up the position of the England manager, and Shilton's international career flourished, playing in Robson's first ten matches.

At the 1986 World Cup, England made it through to the Quarter Finals against Argentina, a match which would form part of the legend of Shilton's whole career.

During the match, Argentina captain Diego Maradona began an attack which seemingly broke down on the edge of the England box as Steve Hodge got a foot to the ball. Unfortunately, the ball was sent back towards the penalty area and Maradona, continuing the run from his initial pass, went after it as Shilton came racing out from the net, expecting to out-jump the Argentinean and punch the ball clear. Somehow, Maradona managed to get higher than Shilton and knock the ball into the net. Shilton and his team-mates instantly signalled that Maradona had used his hand - but the referee allowed the goal. Maradona later said the goal was scored by the Hand of God and the tag has stuck to this day.

In June 1989, Shilton broke Bobby Moore's record of 108 appearances for his country when he won his 109th cap in a friendly against Denmark in Copenhagen.

After his 125th appearance for his country, Shilton announced it would be his last. Shilton concentrated on playing for Derby County, whom he joined in the summer of 1987.

In 1992, Shilton accepted an offer to become player-manager of Plymouth Argyle. The club made it to the Second Division play-offs, but lost in the semi finals to Burnley. Peter left in 1993 and announced his intention to start full-time playing again - at the age of 46.

He joined Wimbledon, but didn't play a game. Played one match for Bolton Wanderers and non-playing spells with Coventry City and West Ham United followed.
Shilton made is 1,000th appearance when he joined Leyton Orient. His thousandth game came against Brighton & Hove Albion, which was screened live on Sky Sports and was preceded by the presentation from the Football League of a special edition of the Guinness Book of Records to Shilton. He played five more matches before retiring on 1005 games at the age of 47.

In a 30-year career which took in eight clubs, three World Cups, two European Cup finals and more than 1,000 competitive matches, Shilton emerged as one of the English game's genuine legends.

He received the MBE, and later the OBE, during his playing career for services to football. In 1990, following his retirement from international football, he was awarded the prestigious Order of Merit by the PFA and a year later he received the Football Writers' Tribute Award. Shilton was made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002 in recognition of his impact on the English game as one of the greatest English goalkeepers.

Manfred Bodner has occupied a management position since 1989. From 1989 to 1995 he was CEO of Trend AG with a special focus in direct marketing and sales in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. He then moved to the executive board of the Eastern European holding company of Neckermann Handels AG based in Vienna, remaining in this position till 1998. As a founding board member, Manfred Bodner has been with bwin Interactive Entertainment AG since May 1999, where he has been responsible for marketing / sales and technology from the outset. He was appointed Co-CEO of the company at the end of June 2001. His contract runs until 31 December 2012

After her role as CEO at CanalSatellite, Isabelle presided at the Perfumery division of Quest International. She was then the Marketing Director of Procter & Gamble, General Director of Henkel France, and finally Corporate Vice President and International Director for Henkel in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Since September 2007, Isabelle has been General Director of Mangas Gaming, a company investing in sports wagering operators and online gaming (BetClic, Betathome and Expekt) and which is held by the Société des Bains de Mer and Financière Lov.

Born on 16 June 1957, Isabelle is a graduate of the Ecole supérieure de commerce de Paris (ESCP).

Björn Evers is CEO of PokerListings.com, CasinoGuide.com and many other high-profile gambling portals. As one of the leading gambling affiliates in the world and one of the pioneers in the industry, they deliver volume and quality traffic, internet expertise and branding like no other. They are known to be able to take any gambling site to the next level by delivering thousands of quality real money players month after month.
Evers brings a range of experience within the gambling, internet and technology industries. He is one of the few in the industry that has worked in executive positions in the network and software segment, the operator as well as the affiliate segment. He served as CEO of Cardoza Games, where he oversaw the launch of the poker room for the foremost gaming and gambling publisher in the world, Cardoza publishing. Prior to his role at Cardoza Games, Evers served as Deputy CEO for gambling software provider Tain. He was an IT and management consultant for Accenture before entering the gambling industry. He joined PokerListings as CEO in June 2008. Evers graduated from Uppsala University in 2001 with a Master of Science degree in Information Technology and currently resides in Curacao.

Keith joined bodog as Director of European Operations in May 2007 and was appointed Managing Director in early 2008. Keith is responsible for introducing the dynamic bodog brand into a competitive European marketplace and to drive bodog’s growth and profitability in that region.

To date, Keith has built an experienced and talented team that is growing the brand in the UK and Europe and has overseen fine tuning of the unique bodog experience for that marketplace.

After a four year spell in the financial services sector, Keith joined Sportinglife.com as Channel Manager in 2000. Within a short time of joining sportinglife.com, Keith became involved in the joint venture the business had with the UK Tote - totalbet.com. He was instrumental in converting sports content users into revenue generating gaming customers. He increased revenues through partnerships with blue chips such as Microsoft and Yahoo and generally developed sponsorship and advertising revenues for the brand.

Following Sportinglife.com, Keith had a spell at William Hill as Affiliate Marketing Manager for the sports and gaming divisions. Keith’s spell at William Hill ended when the UK Tote offered him an exciting opportunity to oversee the launch of its own online channel.

As Head of Interactive Betting at the Tote, a role he assumed in 2002, Keith was responsible for taking the group online. He built the team and established the new online channel as a key part of the Tote business. In 2005 Keith was appointed Director of Business Development and given full responsibility for the strategic direction and profitability of Tote Direct, the wholesale division of the Group, while retaining responsibility for the Tote’s interactive and online channels for sportsbook and gaming.

Keith left this role to take up the unique challenge of launching Bodog to Europe.

Keith holds a Bachelor of Business and Legal Studies from University College, Dublin and has spoken at several international gaming industry events.

Bob Rains, Vice President, Marketing, Affiliate Media Inc.

With a history of creating and implementing innovative, ROI-enhancing
Internet strategies, Bob is known internationally as one of
online marketing’s most accomplished experts. He brings to the
Affiliate Media family almost a decade of online success, having
previously served in high-profile leadership roles for Everest Poker,
Betfair, PUMA, and many other top-tier organisations. Bob’s
specialties include search engine marketing and optimisation, social
media strategies, viral and Internet marketing innovations, and much
more.

Angus is Director of Gaming for Rank Interactive with responsibility for Mecca, Grosvenor and Blue Square’s portfolio of gaming sites. He has over 10 years experience in the sector having been Channel Site Editor at Two Way TV for 3 years before joining the team who set up Gala Interactive and launched Gala’s online Gaming Portfolio in 2002.

Angus was part of the management team created after St Minver’s buy-out of Gala Interactive in 2003 and played a key role in their growth as an international white-label operation until leaving to join the Rank Group in 2007.

Phil Fraser has been involved in the online bingo industry since its very early days of 2000. He has long been recognised as a leading expert in the online bingo market and chairs the annual ‘Bullet Business’ Bingo Conference. Phil has spoken at many online gaming conferences around the world (EiG, GIGSE, EOG, Gambit and more) as well as appearing on BBC radio. He is a respected commentator on online bingo, with many articles appearing in both print and online.

Focus Online Management Ltd, Phil Fraser’s company, runs a wide range of portals and free play sites including WhichBingo UK (http://www.whichbingo.co.uk) the UK’s largest Bingo Directory, WhichBingo.com (http://www.whichbingo.com) CM of the Year website (http://www.cmoftheyear.com) and FreeBingo UK (http://www.freebingo.co.uk) the UK’s largest (and first) totally free to play bingo game. The company’s portfolio also includes Spanish sites, Que Bingo (http://www.quebingo.com) and Bingo Gratis Online (http://www.bingogratisonline.com).

Owner Mayfair Bingo Ltd
Partner Atacmedia Ltd
Simon spent almost 20 years in bingo operations with Mecca, laterally as part of the Rank Group. In mid 2004, he left Rank and in the following two years raised almost £150M for the acquisition of traditional land-based bingo operations.
Simon now owns Mayfair, which operates a number of smaller bingo clubs throughout the UK.
For the past four years, Simon has been at the forefront of developing, and pushing to market, a live streamed bingo game, which replicates the real bingo experience at rivabingo.com.

Paul Barnes graduated with honours in Electonic Engineering from University College Dublin in 1985 and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Warwick University Business School in 1998. He spent the initial part of his career in the financial transaction processing software industry in The Netherlands and UK, working with companies such as Logica BV and American Express. He spent several years in Germany where he helped establish ATOSS AG, now a leading systems solution vendor. Paul first became involved with interactive services through a management consultancy role at Siemens in Munich in 1996, where he worked on a major interactive TV project. This led to senior roles in the interactive gaming sector with Access Gaming Systems, including the successful sales and marketing of online gaming technology to the regulated lottery and casino market globally. In 2004 Paul set about building the All In Poker multi-player online poker site, which launched in 2005. In 2006 he led a management buy-out, selling the business in 2007. Paul was until recently engaged as the online gaming consultant to Groupe Lucien Barrière in France advising on the development, configuration and marketing launch of their new online casino and poker business. He joined Devilfish Gaming PLC as CEO at the end of 2007 and was involved in the float of the business in March 2008 on the Plus Market in London. The multi-channel gaming site www.devilfish.com was launched in May 2008

Santiago is partner of Asensi Abogados, a law firm specialising in the gaming, audiovisual and entertainment sectors with offices in Spain.

Santiago was the in-house lawyer of an online operator for three years. His firm provides legal advice to a large number of slot suppliers, software providers, sports betting, casino, bingo and skill games operators and gaming jurisdictions with interests located in Spain/Europe.

Santiago is the General Member for Spain of the International Masters of Gaming Law. Moreover, Asensi Abogados is one of the five European co-partner law firms of the portal, Gaminglaw.eu.

Santiago is the unique legal expertise in Spain included in the Chambers Global 2009 edition as a “leader in his field”. He is co-author of the Spanish Gambling Market Report for Media Entertainment Consulting Network. He is a frequent speaker at the major gaming conferences and publishes articles about the Spanish gaming industry on a frequent basis.

Santiago has previously been a member of the Studies, Reports & Projects Commission of the General Spanish Bar Association.

He can be reached at santiago@asensi.es

A French Advocate and English Solicitor, Diane started her career in Singapore in 1994 and has worked for more than seven years in South-East Asia, before coming back to practice and create her own firm in France in 2001.

Diane specialises in telecommunications, technology and other regulated industries, such as gambling. More specifically, she dedicated herself to corporate, technology and telecom matters and, in particular, to complex issues requiring the co-ordination of these three areas of law.

Diane’s work encompasses corporate, technology transactions and litigation in various sectors (such as drafting network management agreements, setting-up e-gambling web sites, managing landmark cybercrime cases). Her experience in the telecommunications and technology (including new services, such as gambling online) sectors has earned her the reputation of an expert.

“Diane Mullenex of Ichay & Mullenex Associés has a strong TMT practice and is valued for her creative, solution-oriented approach and ability to see the big pictures” (Chambers 2009).

Diane regularly advises governments on regulatory issues and has contributed to the French report leading to the opening of the gambling sector. She is a Foreign Trade Advisor appointed by the French Government.

Diane is also an Officer with the Communications Committee of the International Bar Association.

 Stephen is a partner at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, a full service law firm in London. He is part of the betting and gaming practice which has been ranked #1 in the industry by the major legal directories for the past 9 years. By background, Stephen is a commercial, regulatory and technology lawyer and concentrates on advising clients on all operational and regulatory aspects of their businesses, with a particular expertise in the infrastructure that underpins the on-line gambling industry. He acts for operators and suppliers alike by drafting, negotiating and advising on matters such as intellectual property, software licensing and development, white-label supply agreements and affiliate arrangements and advises on the regulatory aspects of corporate transactions and the corresponding issues affecting investors, lenders and intermediaries.
He regularly speaks at the sector’s major conferences and regularly writes for its major publications and is noted in Chambers as an expert on legal matters relating to the online gambling industry.

Examples of Stephen’s experience includes advising:

    *     Playtech in connection with software licensing negotiations with William Hill and Mansion

    *    operators such as Betfred, Gala Coral and SBOBET on ongoing regulatory and contractual issues;

    *    Racing Post in connection with its white-label deal with 888

    *    the founders of both Betclick and Expekt in relation to their respective sales to Mangas.

Stefano has an established and highly-qualified reputation in the Gaming and Betting industry in Italy, as well as internationally.

Stefano is an adjunct teacher at Italy’s Superior School of Economy and Finance, and has been teaching at the University of Malta to Italian gambling licensees.

In addition to being a consultant to AAMS (Autonomous Administration of the State Monopolies) on matters of administrative law related to the gambling and lotteries industry, Stefano is a consultant to many Italian and foreign leading gambling operators, most of whom are currently State licensees in Italy.

Stefano is an advisor to the majority of the Italian trade associations in the Gaming sector. In his multi-year experience, he has played a substantial role in the introduction of Bingo in Italy, in the re-organisation –including tenders- of the gambling licensing sector, in the privatisation of the instant and traditional Lotteries, in the marketing of new pool games and lottery networks in foreign countries.

His activity in the Gaming and Betting industry includes:
•    Legal and business affairs advice and assistance in the Italian market
•    Mergers and acquisitions
•    Amicable resolution and management of disputes
•    International arbitrations
•    Joint-venture agreements
•    Drafting law proposals on Gaming and Betting
•    Handling relations between main players and governmental agencies in introducing and utilising property rights on Games and Lotteries
•    Studies and research on new games projects (betting, lotteries, pool games). Technical and legal advice to all major gaming licensees in Italy and abroad.

Stefano has also been working on the harmonisation of Italy’s new Penal Code (articles 718-721 on games of chance) with the existing gaming regulations (statutes and decrees), and on a  project promoted by CNEL (National Counsel of Economy and Labour) and by Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato for the drafting and adoption of white papers on gaming in Italy.

Stefano has spoken at many important conferences on Gaming and Betting worldwide (ERA, EIG, EGB, Betmarkets, etc.) and in Italy, organised by governmental agencies and AAMS. He is the author of the chapter on Italy in the last two editions of the Internet Gambling Report. He has been published by the Academy of European Law and is the author of “A Guide to the Laws and Rules on Gaming and Betting” and “The System of Governmental Concessions and Authorizations for Gaming and Betting: Laws and Regulations”.

Warwick is the lead partner of Global Betting & Gaming Consultants (GBGC), which has established itself as the most credible specialist international gambling consultancy in the world. The company has worked with, or supplied information to, over 300 clients, the majority of whom are "blue chip." Projects have included market research/assessments, business/facility planning, product evaluations, design/operational reviews, the development/review of corporate strategies, license applications, regulation development for and on behalf of governments, IPOs, M&A and due diligence. Typically, clients include, operators, monopolies/lotteries, suppliers, investment banks, the major consultancies and governments.

In addition to its consultancy, GBGC has produced three reviews of the global gambling market that have been widely acknowledged to be the best available both in terms of detail and accuracy. The latest review extended to over 900 pages, with over 40 pages of this dedicated to the UK market. The statistics and forecasts that are contained within the Global Gambling Report have become widely recognised within the industry, the financial community and the media, as the industry standard for sizing both the online and offline gambling markets. Consequently, GBGC are the most widely quoted source of industry data in share prospectuses and analysts' notes as well as on TV/Radio and in publications as diverse as the Financial Times, Forbes, Time Magazine, BBC Radio 4, BBC Breakfast, ITN news, the Economist and Fortune magazine.