A technology entrepreneur in the gambling sector since 2010, Simo founded BetBuddy, an early mover in AI and RegTech that was acquired by Playtech in 2017, where he later served as Managing Director and Head of AI. His machine learning research has been published at leading international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. He has served on the board of Great Britain’s Gambling Commission and co-founded AiR Hub, the AI research lab at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute. He is also Executive Editor of its annual State of AI in Gaming report and a Fellow of the International Gaming Institute at UNLV.
