The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers has created two new awards to honour two gaming professionals who died suddenly this year.
The Jens Halle Memorial Award Honouring Excellence in Commercial Gaming Professionalism and the Peter Mead Memorial Award Honouring Excellence in Gaming Media and Communications will acknowledge their lasting impact on the gaming industry following their unexpected deaths earlier this year.
Halle (pictured), a long-time Bally and Novomatic executive in Europe who was most recently CEO of Gauselmann Group’s Merkur Gaming based in Florida, died suddenly on May 20 at the age of 57. Mead, the founder and publisher of Casino Enterprise Management magazine, died suddenly in Las Vegas on June 24 at the age of 54.
The first Jens Halle Memorial Award will be presented to Halle’s widow, Marietta, and son, Jordi, prior to this year’s G2E. In subsequent years, AGEM will create a nominating panel to recognise one individual annually who best represents the personal values and professional commitment that Halle was well-known for in gaming jurisdictions around world.
The first Peter Mead Memorial Award will be presented to Mead’s mother, Solveig Berg, prior to G2E, and in subsequent years to a deserving individual who will come from a qualified pool of gaming journalists or company communications professionals.
