Team

Andrew W. Scott is the Australia-born casino tragic who somehow turned decades of gambling, globe-trotting and “research” in over 200 casinos into running Asia’s most influential gaming media group. Now CEO of Complete Media Group and Vice Chairman & CEO of Inside Asian Gaming, he’s gone from player to publisher, shaping industry debate with equal parts insight and mischief. Former accountant and high-stakes poker player, and continuing industry commentator, conference ringmaster and serial entrepreneur, Andrew now connects East and West with sharp analysis, sharper opinions and a Rolodex that frightens multinational corporations. Based in Macau, he still treats airports like second homes. Or maybe first.

Cory acquired his first computer at seven after repeatedly breaking the family one wore his parents down. His gambling introduction followed shortly after when Pokemon Red inexplicably included pachislot. This sealed his fate: within a year of graduating university, Cory entered gambling media and has on occasions looked back.

After marrying a Chinese international student, Cory redesigned CDC Gaming‘s website, brand, and reports before aiding the merger with Inside Asian Gaming—turns out his Asian partnerships started personal, then professional.

As COO and CTO of Complete Media Group, Cory drives the company’s technology vision. Still breaking things, just more strategically.

Let’s face it, this Scott has been round the block more than once.

First 20 years for two of the top ad agencies of the era marketing everything from Colgate toothpaste to Mercedes Benz.

Then helping launch  an early dotcom leading pet health care website.

Then despite being a kid from the beach and no gaming interest went to Vegas, Macao and Singapore for the company that changed the face of the Integrated Resort.

Honing his craft he finally was ready for IAG, CMG and CiG whilst keeping an eye on the other Scotts and finding other ways to contribute.

Michael is a Melbourne native who has spent more than three decades roaming the world’s casinos, from Macau and Monte Carlo to Las Vegas, London and well beyond, with a decades-long side interest in online sports wagering.

Around the industry since 1994, he joined the Complete Media Group ecosystem in 2009 and has been part of the furniture ever since. A former handy fast-medium bowler and lifelong cricket tragic, Michael has played in Australia and England, taken a hat-trick, and will happily cross the planet at short notice if there’s a proper contest between bat and ball at the other end.

These days he allegedly keeps things running in a somewhat orderly fashion at CiG!

Ben Blaschke somehow took a perfectly sensible start in rugby league journalism in the late 1990s and turned it into a career deep inside the global gambling industry. He first made his name covering league, where clarity, consistency and actually understanding the sport set him apart, before drifting into mainstream sports media and then, unexpectedly, poker — becoming one of a small, respected group covering the Australian and later global poker scene before most people realized it was a thing.

With Complete Media Group since 2013, and Managing Editor of Inside Asian Gaming since 2016, Ben brings order, judgement and deadlines to one of the world’s most complex industries, shaping editorial strategy and cutting through regulatory fog and corporate spin. Outside work, he is incapable of ignoring live sport and is usually accompanied by his loyal canine sidekick, Willow.

Scott Long caught the gambling bug early, even wearing “casino carpet” fashion on his 8th grade trip to Washington, D.C. A political journalism major, he wrote a “Vegas on $30 a Day” column, back when that was remotely plausible, then fronted the Ante Up PokerCast. He and his co-host parlayed that into Ante Up Poker Media LLC, publishing Ante Up magazine, one of North America’s most distributed poker magazines.

He later stepped away for civic work and to found Quoz Creative LLC, producing events including a Guinness World Record watermelon eating contest. CDC Gaming lured him back to curate the afternoon Last Call and contribute to Complete iGaming, where he continues to learn how many “worlds” gaming actually contains.

A native Jersey girl, Kim was sure the Boston culture would be a lifelong commitment — until two feet of it showed up in April and convinced her otherwise. In 2009, she traded shovels for sunshine and made Las Vegas home. She joined the industry in 2014 with Caesars, where she built the industry’s first enterprise-wide sales culture training program, later standing up the VIP team and strategy for Caesars Sportsbook and iCasino.

Kim is equally comfortable wielding a spatula in the kitchen or power tools in the garage, and she loves to travel whenever she can. Most free days are spent chasing adventure and trying to keep up with her Kaninchen Dachshund, Rubi, while running the Red Rocks.

Jadeson Ho is Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Inside Asian Gaming (IAG), where he somehow turns casual chats into strategic partnerships and industry events into actual business. He leads IAG’s advertising, partnerships and growth across digital, print and the gaming industry’s favourite social settings, and does the same for CiG’s Asia-Pacific facing customers.

Known for working a room like it’s a competitive sport, Jadeson connects operators, suppliers and anyone else standing close enough, and has a well-earned reputation for facilitating introductions and making things happen when needed. A Queen Mary University of London graduate fluent in English and Cantonese, he bridges markets and cultures and makes introductions with ease, usually accompanied by a laugh.