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Mr. Donald Stanford is a seasoned executive who has spent the last 23 years in Senior Management of a successful technology company that has enjoyed considerable success in growth, industry leadership and creating value for its shareholders. He possesses the rare combination of technology skills, hands-on P&L expertise, corporate leadership and customer communications with the ability to work in a team environment and achieve extraordinary results under challenging conditions.
He was formerly the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology officer of GTECH Holdings, Inc., a multi-national information technology company. During his twenty-two years with GTECH, the Company has grown from a market share of 5% and sales of less than $1 million to a dominant worldwide market share of 70% and sales in excess of $1 billion as of the end of 2002. The Company has been consistently profitable and has been the driving force in the last decade in the development and installation of on-line lottery systems in North America , Europe , South America , Africa and Asia , and employs over 4,500 people worldwide. As an important factor in this success, Mr. Stanford has traveled extensively and collaborated with a large number of domestic and international customers and partners.
In addition to being the Company's chief technical strategist, he was also a vital part of the sales and marketing and project management activities that were critical to the Company's overall success
As a recently retired employee and GTECH Holdings Fellow, he advises the GTECH Holdings Corporation in the areas of future technologies and architectures that may be of value to the Company's future growth strategies.
Mr. Stanford earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations in 1972 and a Master's in Computer Science/Applied Math in 1977 from Brown University . He has recently been appointed Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and in 1999 received the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Professional Achievement. | 