Virginia McDowell to receive lifetime achievement award

Gaming industry veteran Virginia McDowell will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award next month

Gaming manufacture vet Old Dominion McDowell testament follow honoured with a lifetime achievement grant next month.

The businesswoman testament live recognised for her life’s work at the upcoming Orient Coast Gaming Congress & NexGen Gaming Forum, lot to submit come in 'tween 21 and 23 September.

McDowell served as the only if female person chairperson and CEO of a major gaming manipulator from 2007 until her retirement from Isle of Capri Casinos inward Apr 2016.

She was also the first off distaff get on fellow member of the American Gaming Association (AGA), as swell as the world-class woman inducted into the Mississippi River Gaming Charles Martin Hall of Fame.

Currently, McDowell is a Non-Executive Director at Entain and Vice President of Global Gaming Women, a non-profit organisation she co-founded inward 2016.

Its missionary post is to “support, exalt and influence the evolution of women inwards the gaming industry through and through teaching and mentoring.”

Michael Pollock and Harold Lloyd D. Levenson, co-founders of the upcoming conference, said: “In a vocation that has extended over quaternary decades, Old Dominion State McDowell has been a mentor to many, and a open up for women seeking to make headway a footing and establish careers inward this industry.

“We need to beam a visible radiation on her accomplishments, and to assist invigorate others to manner of walking through and through the doors she has helped open.”

This musical theme of inclusion testament poke out to the conference’s industry leader roundtables. These sessions testament purportedly include “a heart-to-heart discourse of what it testament use up for women and minorities to ascend to incorporated leadership positions inward the industry.”

The conference will live held at Atlantic Ocean City’s Hard John Rock Hotel & Casino.