Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JUN 2020年6月 亞博匯 54 TECH TALK Ben Blaschke: Congratulations on the new role, Lloyd. How have you found the transition, and what are the main changes for you? Lloyd Robson: It has been an incredibly interesting time to assume the APAC leadership role, one I feel very humbled and privileged to take on, having been provided the opportunity by Aristocrat. Transitioning from Sales Director to General Manager has come with greater responsibility and lateral decision making, such as more involvement with our product portfolio, production considerations and entities in our regulatory space, such as DICJ and PAGCOR, just to name a few. One of Aristocrat’s great strengths is succession planning and providing individuals the opportunity to grow and develop, and I have to personally thank Chris Rowe and the Aristocrat executives for providing me capacity to learn and experience these business facets while I was in my former role, which has fast tracked the transition. This forward thinking and planning also enabled us to promote Paul White from our sales team to the role of Sales Director. BB: What are you looking to accomplish as leader of the Aristocrat Asia-Pacific team? LR: I am fortunate that our team has an amazing culture, and this has been developed and enhanced over the last three to five years particularly – I am certainly not looking to tinker with that! I am laser focused on providing opportunities for our team to become further connected into the communities in which we operate. For example we are having strong success with our Macau local graduate program, and we would love to expand this further into the Philippines. Beyond our team, clearly a goal now is navigating the COVID-19 era. I amsuper excited by the opportunity this presents bothpersonally and professionally, as I am convinced this will create opportunity and accelerate