Caughill Brings over 20 Years of Expertise Working in Canada’s Industrial Gaming Business
CHICAGO, March 30, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rush Road Interactive, Inc. (NYSE: RSI) (“RSI”), a number one on-line on line casino and sports activities betting firm within the U.S., as we speak introduced the appointment of Bruce Caughill as Managing Director, Canada. Mr. Caughill joined RSI on March 28, 2022, previous to RSI’s deliberate launch of its award-winning BetRivers on-line on line casino and sportsbook in Ontario on April 4, 2022, the primary day of licensed on-line gaming within the province.
Mr. Caughill joins RSI from his function as Chief Authorized Officer on the Alcohol and Gaming Fee of Ontario (AGCO), the place he oversaw all authorized issues and performed a key function in creating the legislative and coverage infrastructure for Canada’s first authorized regulated iGaming {industry}.
Because the Managing Director of RSI’s Canadian group, Mr. Caughill will present management and help within the industrial and administrative actions related to the corporate’s pursuit of enterprise alternatives within the nation.
“We welcome Bruce who, together with his unparalleled authorized, operational and regulatory experience in Canada’s gaming {industry}, will present robust perception, steerage and counsel on this thrilling new on-line market,” mentioned Richard Schwartz, Chief Govt Officer of RSI. “Bruce’s confirmed management functionality, in depth expertise and strategic pondering make him an awesome addition to RSI.”
Mr. Caughill has over 20 years of broad, refined expertise in Canada’s industrial gaming {industry}. Previous to the AGCO, he was CEO/President of Caughill Administration Consulting, offering strategic counsel and regulatory recommendation to worldwide gaming corporations. Earlier than that, Caughill served for greater than twenty years as Vice President/Basic Counsel, Company Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer at Falls Administration Firm, operator of the Niagara Casinos, Canada’s largest built-in on line casino resort operation.
“I’m excited to carry my years of expertise in Canadian gaming to help RSI’s pursuit of alternatives in Canada,” mentioned Mr. Caughill, a local of Ontario. “I’m significantly excited on the prospect of supporting the numerous native Canadian staff as the corporate establishes its Innovation Hub right here.”
An extended-time member of the Worldwide Affiliation of Gaming Advisors, Mr. Caughill additionally serves as an unbiased member of the Inner Audit and Compliance Committees of the Rush Road Gaming affiliated casinos. He attended Queen’s College in Kingston, Ontario, earlier than incomes his legislation diploma from the College of Western Ontario. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of Edinburgh with a Masters Diploma in Industrial Legislation and in 2008 acquired the Canadian Gaming Affiliation’s nationwide award for {industry} management and excellent contribution.
About RSI
RSI is a trusted on-line gaming and sports activities leisure firm centered on regulated markets in the USA and Latin America. By its manufacturers BetRivers.com and PlaySugarHouse.com, RSI was an early entrant in lots of regulated jurisdictions and is presently dwell with real-money cellular, on-line operations in 13 U.S. states: Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, West Virginia, Arizona and Louisiana. RSI can also be lively internationally, having been acknowledged as Sportsbook Operator of the 12 months on the SBC Latinoamérica Awards 2021, the place it gives its on-line on line casino and sportsbook within the regulated gaming market of Colombia on RushBet.co. RSI gives, by its proprietary on-line gaming platform, a number of the hottest on-line on line casino video games and sports activities betting choices in the USA. Based in 2012 in Chicago by gaming {industry} veterans, RSI was named the 2020 International Gaming Awards Digital Operator of the 12 months and the 2021 EGR North America Awards On line casino Operator of the 12 months, Buyer Companies Operator of the 12 months and Social Gaming Operator of the 12 months. RSI is dedicated to industry-leading accountable gaming practices and seeks to offer its clients with the assets and companies they should play responsibly. For extra data, go to www.rushstreetinteractive.com.
Ahead-Trying Statements
This press launch consists of “forward-looking statements” inside the which means of the “protected harbor” provisions of the Personal Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. RSI’s precise outcomes could differ from their expectations, estimates and projections and consequently, you shouldn’t depend on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future occasions. Phrases comparable to “count on,” “estimate,” “undertaking,” “finances,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “could,” “will,” “may,” “ought to,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “proceed,” and related expressions are meant to establish such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements embody, with out limitation, what RSI’s anticipated advantages arising from Mr. Caughill’s employment will embody and the anticipated timing of launch of operations in Ontario, Canada. These forward-looking statements contain vital dangers and uncertainties that would trigger the precise outcomes to vary materially from the anticipated outcomes. Most of those components are outdoors RSI’s management and are troublesome to foretell. Components that will trigger such variations embody, with out limitation, modifications in relevant legal guidelines or rules, unanticipated services or products delays, and different dangers and uncertainties indicated every so often in RSI’s most up-to-date Annual Report on Type 10-Okay, together with these below “Danger Components” therein, and in RSI’s different filings with the SEC. RSI cautions that the foregoing checklist of things shouldn’t be unique. RSI cautions readers to not place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which communicate solely as of the date made. RSI doesn’t undertake or settle for any obligation or enterprise to launch publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to mirror any change in its expectations or any change in occasions, circumstances or circumstances on which any such assertion relies.
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