LEADERSHIP

Mr. Gardos is a seasoned 20-year veteran of the iGaming industry with an excellent track record of managing businesses on an international level on both B2C and B2B settings. Through OddLab Kft, he has helped to grow businesses by providing unrivalled insight into new markets, products and emerging opportunities.  

Mr. Gardos was the conceiver and CEO of Vegas.hu, the first licensed online casino of Hungary, which has accumulated €80M+ revenue within first five years of its operation, while creating a strong household brand name in Hungary and acquiring 50% market share of the local online casino market. 

Mr. Gardos has very close relationships with iGaming 3rd party service providers in the field of gaming, payments, support, legal, marketing, development.  Mr. Gardos has held the CMO and CCO positions at iBus Media Ltd. Based in the Isle of Man with offices in Barcelona, Vilnius, London and Budapest, iBus Media was a global leader in the online performance marketing space, with focus on gaming of all verticals was ultimately purchased by The Stars Group and rolled into the Oddschecker business. PokerNews.com, the flagship brand, which was published daily in 30+ languages, has won iGB best poker affiliate of the year 4 times in a row between 2013 and 2016, Casinosmash.com was also shortlisted in the best casino affiliate category.  

As Co-Founder and Managing Member of GIBS International LLC, Mr. Falconello has been providing C-suite level hands-on consulting and advisory services on a global level and has been making strategic investments in an entrepreneurial environment principally in association with a privately held conglomerate with diverse worldwide business interests for three decades as well as providing a very broad range of business and personal financial and advisory services as Managing Director to a Family Office including wealth management, taxation, business development and financial management. 

Previously, he provided consulting and tax advisory services with Ernst & Young for five years. 

Mr. Falconello has spearheaded new initiatives, acquisitions, recaps, turnarounds and divestitures accompanied by creative debt and equity financing structures, joint ventures and vertical and horizontal strategic alliances. The industries include land-based and on-line casino gambling, media, filmed entertainment, hospitality, retail, physical distribution, professional services, video game development and real estate development and management where he has managed small and medium-sized companies across C&E Europe and in the US.

He holds a bachelor degree in commerce with honors from Rider University and earned the CPA and CMA designations. He holds master degrees with honors in law, taxation and business administration from Boston University, University of Southern California and Rider University, respectively.