Board of Directors

Marco Sala has served as Executive Chair of the IGT PLC Board of Directors since January 2022. In June 2022, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of De Agostini S.p.A., IGT PLC’s controlling shareholder. He was Chief Executive Officer of IGT PLC from April 2015 to January 2022, where he was responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of the Company. Prior to April 2015, Sala served as Chief Executive Officer of GTECH S.p.A. (formerly known as Lottomatica Group) since April 2009, He joined the Company as Co-General Manager in 2003, and since then, has served as a member of the Board of Directors. In August 2006, he was appointed Managing Director with responsibility for the Company’s Italian Operations and other European activities.

Previously, he was CEO of Buffetti, Italy's leading office equipment and supply retail chain. Prior to Buffetti, Sala served as Head of the Business Directories Division for SEAT Pagine Gialle. Earlier in his career, he worked at Magneti Marelli (a Fiat Group company) and Kraft Foods.

Mr. Sala graduated from Bocconi University in Milan, majoring in Business and Economics.

James F. McCann has served on the IGT PLC board of directors since April 2015, and currently serves as Lead Independent Director and is Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He is the founder and executive chairman of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc.

McCann also serves as a director for Amyris, Inc. (since 2019) and Scott’s Miracle-Gro (since 2014). He previously served as a director and compensation committee member of IGT’s predecessor Lottomatica S.p.A. (from August 2006 to April 2011), as a chairperson, presiding independent director and director of Willis Towers Watson and its predecessors (2004-2019), and as a director of Gateway, Inc. and The Boyds Collection, Ltd.

Vincent Sadusky has served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director since January 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Sadusky served from 2018 to 2020 as CEO and board member of Univision Communications, the largest Hispanic media company in the US, operating multiple broadcast and cable networks, local TV and radio stations, digital video and audio streaming. Prior to Univision, he was CEO and board member from 2014 to 2017 of Media General, a local TV station and digital media company with more than 50 TV stations and 5,000 employees. From 2006 to 2014, he was CEO and board member of LIN Media, a local TV station broadcaster and digital media company.

In addition to serving on the IGT Board of Directors since 2010 and most recently chairing its audit committee, Mr. Sadusky has served on the boards of the Paley Center for Media, the National Association of Broadcasters and was the treasurer for the NBC Affiliates Board. Earlier in his career, he was CFO of Telemundo Communications from 1999 to 2004. Prior to that, he worked at Ernst & Young, and co-founded JVB Financial Group and Zeus Financial, fixed-income securities trading firms.

Sadusky graduated with honors with a BS in Accounting from Penn State University and holds an MBA from the New York Institute of Technology.

Massimiliano (“Max”) Chiara is IGT’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Company’s board of directors.

Before joining the Company, Mr. Chiara served as Chief Financial Officer of CNH Industrial since September 2013. Max was also named the Chief Sustainability Officer at CNH Industrial in 2016, and he also served since 2017 as head of Mergers & Acquisitions for CNH Industrial. Between 2009 and 2013, Mr. Chiara served in various positions with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (and its predecessors) as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development in Latin America, Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis and Business Development Finance, VP Finance Brands and Marketing Controller, and served as Director of Business Development Finance for its engine business unit Fiat Powertrain between 2007 and 2009. Earlier in his career, Mr. Chiara held various managerial roles at Teksid Aluminum, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Robert Bosch, the Wuerth Group, and was a M&A financial analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

Mr. Chiara graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan (Italy), with a degree in Business Administration Cum Laude, and has a CEMS Master’s degree in International Management from the Bocconi University (with the University of Cologne, Germany as host school). Mr. Chiara is NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Directorship Certified. Mr. Chiara also held the position of Chairman of the Italian Association of Corporate Treasurers (AITI) for the years 2004-2007.

Alberto Dessy has served on the IGT PLC board of directors since April 2015, and is a member of the Compensation Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Dessy served on the GTECH S.p.A. (formerly Lottomatica Group) board of directors since 2011. He is currently a Professor at Bocconi University. Mr. Dessy is a Chartered Accountant specialized in corporate finance, particularly the evaluation of companies, trademarks, equity and investments, financial structure, channels and loan instruments, funding for development and in acquisitions and disposals of companies. He has been an expert witness for parties to lawsuits and as an independent expert appointed by the court in various legal disputes. He is currently on the board of directors of Chiorino S.p.A. and has been on the boards of many companies, both listed and unlisted, including Redaelli Tecna S.p.A., Laika Caravans S.p.A., Premuda S.p.A., I.M.A., Milano Centro S.p.A., and DeA Capital S.p.A.

Mr. Dessy graduated from Bocconi University.

Marco Drago has served on the IGT PLC board of directors since April 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Drago served on the GTECH S.p.A. (formerly Lottomatica Group) board of directors since 2002. Since 1997, Mr. Drago has been the Chairman of De Agostini, one of Italy’s largest family-run groups, which he led through an extraordinary phase of development and diversification in new activities, so that nowadays De Agostini Group is operating worldwide, with revenues over €5 billion, an EBITDA of €1.2 billion, and about 12,000 employees in different sectors: lotteries, gaming, and services (IGT); media and communications (Atresmedia, Planeta, Banijay Group); Finance (DeA Capital); Real Estate Asset Management (IDeA FIMIT); and insurance (Assicurazioni Generali). Since October 2006, he has also been Chairman of the Board of Partners of B&D, a family limited partnership created to ensure cohesion in share ownership, consistency of intent, and continuity in decision-making over the long term. Mr. Drago is Vice President of De Agostini Planeta Group and director of Atresmedia, DeA Capital, De Agostini Editore, Zodiak Media and S. Faustin (Techint Group), and a member of the Assonime’s board of governors.

Mr. Drago graduated in Economics and Business from Bocconi University and achieved important awards such as “Bocconiano dell’anno” in 2001 and appointed “Cavaliere del Lavoro” in 2003.

Ashley M. Hunter has been on the IGT PLC board of directors since January, 2022 as an independent director in addition to serving on the nominating and corporate governance committee. She has been a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information since 2015, and is the founding partner of A. Hunter & Company, a leading risk management advisory firm. Previously she was managing director of HM Risk Group LLC where she assisted many startups and corporations with alternative risk transfer schemes and reinsurance placement, globally. Under her leadership, HM Risk Group became a leader in the development of niche insurance products for the sharing and assistive reproductive technology industry. Prior to founding HM Risk Group in 2006, she worked in various claims and underwriting management positions for State Farm Insurance Companies, The Hartford Insurance Company and AIG Insurance Company.

Heather J. McGregor was appointed to the IGT PLC board of directors in March of 2017. She is the Executive Dean of the Edinburgh Business School, the graduate school of business of Heriot Watt University in the U.K. Ms. McGregor is also the principal shareholder and non-executive chairman of the executive search firm Taylor Bennett. In addition, Ms. McGregor is a director of Non-Standard Finance PLC, a company specializing in offering consumer loans in the U.K. Ms. McGregor has a Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong in Structured Finance and is an experienced writer and broadcaster, including writing for the Financial Times for 17 years. Ms. McGregor is also the founder of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, which works to promote diversity in the communications industry, and a founding member of the steering committee of the 30% Club, which is working to raise the representation of women at senior levels within the U.K.’s publicly listed companies. In June 2015, Ms. McGregor was made a Commander of the British Empire for her services to diversity and employment. In February 2017, she was appointed by the U.K. Government to be a member of the Honours Committee for the Economy.

Lorenzo Pellicioli served as Chairperson of the IGT PLC board of directors from November 2018 to January 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Pellicioli served as the Vice-Chairperson of the Board since April 2015. From August 2006 to April 2015, Mr. Pellicioli served on the GTECH S.p.A. (formerly Lottomatica Group) board of directors as Chairperson. Mr. Pellicioli served as Chief Executive Officer of De Agostini S.p.A., IGT PLC’s controlling shareholder, until June 2022. Previously, he served as the first President and Chief Executive Officer of Costa Cruise Lines in Miami, a division of the Costa Crociere Group that operates in North America. He was then promoted to Worldwide General Manager of Costa Crociere S.p.A. In the past (2011 and 2010) he served as a director of IDeA Alternative Investments S.p.A. and as Managing Director of DeA Factor S.p.A.

Mr. Pellicioli was also appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Compagnie Française de Croisières (Costa-Paquet), a subsidiary of Costa Crociere. He took part in the privatization of SEAT Pagine Gialle and, after the acquisition, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer. Following the sale of SEAT, Mr. Pellicioli worked for the Telecom Italia Group as head of the Internet Business Unit. Earlier in his career, he served as General Manager of Advertising Sales and Vice General Manager of Mondadori Periodici (magazines) for the Gruppo Mondadori Espresso, the first Italian publishing group. He was promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of Manzoni & C. S.p.A, an advertising division of the Group. He has also held various positions in the private sector of Italian television for Manzoni Pubblicità, Publikompass and he was appointed president of Bergamo TV Programmes after starting his career as a journalist for the newspaper Giornale Di Bergamo. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. He is also a member of the advisory boards of Investitori Associati IV, Wisequity II e Macchine Italia and Palamon Capital Partners. Mr. Pellicioli serves as Chairman of the board of directors of DeA Capital, as a director of Banijay Group SAS and LDH SAS, and he is also a member of the Compensation committee and of the Appointments and Corporate Governance committee and director of the board of directors of Assicurazioni Generali.

Maria Pinelli has been on the IGT PLC board of directors since January, 2022 as an independent director and chair of the audit committee. She is a global C-suite executive who currently serves as a member of the board of directors for Globant and board director and chair of the audit committee for Archer Aviation, Inc. and Clarim Acquisition Corp. She served in a variety of leadership roles at EY from October, 1986 to November, 2020, including consumer products and retail leader, technology leader, global vice chair – strategic growth markets, global IPO leader, and Americas leader – strategic growth markets. In her role as an advisor at EY, she successfully led more than 20 IPOs in four different countries and more than 25 M&A transactions worldwide and testified before the US House Financial Services Committee on the state of the capital markets. Her experience includes strategic transactions and due diligence advice, Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and stakeholder management. She has served as an advisor to some of the world’s most iconic e-commerce, consumer products, and retail brands. Recipient of several awards, she was recognized as one of the Square Mile's most inspiring Power 100 Women which highlights the talkers, the thinkers, the women influencing policy and changing the way the City of London thinks.

Dr. Samantha Ravich was appointed to the IGT PLC board of directors in July of 2019. She is a defense and intelligence policy and tech entrepreneur and the Chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab; the Vice Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board; a Commissioner on the Congressionally-mandated Cyberspace Solarium Commission; and a member of the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board. Dr. Ravich is also a managing partner at A2P, LLC, a technology company that focuses on advanced advertising techniques, and a Board Governor at the Gemological Institute of America. Previously, she was the Republican Co-Chair of the Congressionally-mandated National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the United States Intelligence Community and served as Deputy National Security Advisor for Vice President Cheney. Dr. Ravich received her Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate School and her MCP/BSE from the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Gianmario Tondato da Ruos has served on the IGT PLC board of directors since April 2015, and is Chair of the Compensation Committee. Prior to April 2015, Mr. Tondato da Ruos served as a Lead Independent Director of GTECH S.p.A. (formerly Lottomatica Group) from 2006 to April 2014. Mr. Tondato da Ruos has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Autogrill S.p.A. since April 2003. He joined Autogrill Group in 2000, and moved to the United States to manage the integration of the North American subsidiary HMSHost and successfully implemented a strategic refocusing on concessions and diversification into new business sectors, distribution channels and geographies.

Mr. Tondato da Ruos is Chairman of HMSHost Corporation, Chairman of World Duty Free S.p.A., and director of World Duty Free Group S.A.U. He has been a director of Autogrill since March 2003, and sits on the advisory board of Rabo Bank (Hollande).

Mr. Tondato da Ruos graduated with a degree in economics from Ca’Foscari University of Venice.