DR Gaming Technology Names Koen De Wispelaere as New CEO

When DRGT’s team sets up at Booth 4405 at the Venetian Expo for the 2026 Global Gaming Expo, the badges will say something different. Koen De Wispelaere, the company’s former Group Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Board Member, is the new DR Gaming Technology CEO. Jurgen De Munck, co-founder and the man who ran the company for years, moves to Group Executive Chairman. Marco Herrera, CEO for the past two years, is on his way out, thanked publicly for the management systems experience he brought in.

For a supplier whose software sits underneath slot floors, accounting reports and linked jackpots, that is not a routine press release. It is the sort of change that makes operators quietly check who signs off their roadmap.

The appointment, in plain facts

De Wispelaere joined the Belgian-headquartered company in 2015 and has worked alongside De Munck for the decade since. In that stretch he was involved in the growth of DRGT’s management systems and jackpot technology, in operational efficiencies, and in the expansion of sister company Infiniti Casino across Belgium, France and Mexico. In other words, he has seen both sides of the business: the supplier selling the system, and the operator running on it.

The split of responsibilities now looks like this:

De Munck’s endorsement was direct: “Over the past ten years Koen has worked closely and continuously alongside me, playing a central role in the Company’s management and strategic development. I have every confidence in him.”

De Wispelaere’s own framing was less ceremonial. “Having worked for DRGT, and closely with Jurgen, for more than a decade now, this opportunity is immense. That said, I’m taking on this challenge with my eyes wide open; I understand and believe in the strategy, know exactly what’s expected of me, and what is required to execute it.” He added that most of his colleagues have worked together for years and know each other’s strengths, which he called the decisive factor.

Why a systems supplier’s CEO matters more than it looks

Here is the part that gets missed when executive moves get filed under “people news”. A casino management system is the least glamorous and most load-bearing piece of software a venue owns. It meters machines, tracks player accounts and loyalty, feeds the accounting and reporting that regulators want to see, and in DRGT’s case drives linked and mystery jackpots that can run across multiple floors.

Swap a game supplier and you change a few titles on the bank. Swap a management systems supplier and you are talking about recabling, re-certifying, retraining staff and migrating years of player data. Operators know this, which is why these relationships run for years and why the supplier’s stability is effectively part of the product.

So when the CEO changes at a company like this, operators are really asking three things: does the product roadmap survive, do my support contacts survive, and is anyone about to rewrite the commercial terms?

The churn problem, and why this looks like the opposite of it

Two CEOs inside roughly two years would normally read as instability. The detail that changes the picture is where the new one came from. De Wispelaere is not an outside hire learning the architecture from a deck. He was the CFO who signed off the investment in that architecture, and he reported to the founder who built it.

That matters because the usual risk in a supplier CEO change is strategic drift: a new leader arrives, wants a mark on the wall, and the next two release cycles go into whatever they championed at their last employer. A decade-long internal promotion makes drift far less likely. De Wispelaere said he believes in the existing strategy, which is a low-drama signal but a useful one.

The founder’s new position reinforces it. De Munck staying on as Group Executive Chairman, with his focus on strategy across both DRGT and Infiniti Casino Group, means continuity sits above the CEO role rather than departing with it. For operators mid-contract, that structure is worth more than any quote in the announcement.

What a CFO moving into the CEO chair usually signals

Finance leaders who take the top job tend to bring a particular set of instincts, and DRGT’s own announcement points at them. The themes attached to De Wispelaere’s tenure were systems and jackpot growth plus operational efficiencies, and his brief now explicitly covers distribution as well as development.

Read practically, that suggests a few likely priorities:

• Margin discipline over land-grab — measured expansion into markets where certification costs and support coverage actually pay back.
• Jackpot technology as the differentiator — linked and mystery jackpots are what make a systems supplier sticky, because they drive floor performance rather than just compliance reporting.
• Distribution and channel focus — a development-only remit would have been phrased as such; distribution being named alongside it points to how the company plans to grow.
• Group coherence — with Infiniti Casino sitting in the same group, DRGT has an in-house testbed across Belgium, France and Mexico most suppliers would pay for.

None of that is a guarantee, and nobody should treat a transition announcement as a roadmap. It is the direction the appointment implies.

What operators and partners should do next

If you run DRGT systems, or you are evaluating them, the sensible response to any supplier leadership change is a short, unemotional check. G2E is the obvious place to run it, with both De Munck and De Wispelaere on the floor at Booth 4405.

1. Confirm your account and support chain. Ask in writing who owns your account now and whether escalation paths change. CEO transitions often ripple down a layer or two.
2. Get the release roadmap restated. Any feature you have been promised should be reconfirmed under the new leadership, with timing.
3. Check certification exposure. If you operate in multiple jurisdictions, ask how upcoming system versions are being submitted for testing and approval, and on what schedule.
4. Review jackpot configurations and contribution terms. Linked jackpot arrangements span venues and sometimes operators; make sure yours are documented, not assumed.
5. Read your renewal clauses now, not at renewal. Pricing and term changes, if they come, arrive with new commercial leadership, not before it.

The broader read on the supplier market is simple enough. Casino technology leadership is consolidating around people who have lived inside the business rather than arriving from adjacent industries, and the founder-as-chairman structure is becoming the standard way to hand over operational control without losing institutional memory. DRGT’s version of that handover is about as conservative as these things get, which, for anyone whose floor depends on the system, is the point.

FAQ

Who is the new DR Gaming Technology CEO?

Koen De Wispelaere, previously DRGT’s Group Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Board Member. He joined the company in 2015 and now leads its management systems and jackpot technology development and distribution business.

What happened to DRGT’s previous CEOs?

Co-founder Jurgen De Munck, who led the company before, becomes Group Executive Chairman with a focus on strategy across Infiniti Casino Group and DRGT. Marco Herrera, CEO for the past two years, is leaving the role and was publicly thanked by De Munck.

What does DRGT actually supply?

Casino management systems and jackpot technology, the software layer that meters gaming machines, handles player tracking and reporting, and runs linked and mystery jackpots across casino floors. Details are on the company’s own site, drgt.com.

Where can the new leadership be met in person?

De Munck, De Wispelaere and members of DRGT’s global team are attending the 2026 Global Gaming Expo at Booth 4405, Venetian Expo, Las Vegas.