Mary Sim, Alan Drozd and Robert Lorick Earn Director Promotions as GLI Strengthens Its Global Leadership Team
Gaming Laboratories International elevates three veterans as the testing giant tightens its grip on global compliance.
When a testing and certification company that has approved more than 5.3 million gaming components decides to reshuffle its senior bench, the industry should pay attention. Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) confirmed three director-level promotions from its Lakewood, New Jersey headquarters. Mary Sim steps up to Director of Quality Assurance, while Alan Drozd and Robert Lorick both move into Director of Engineering roles. All three are long-tenured GLI insiders, and that detail matters more than the titles suggest.
GLI Director Promotions Reward Deep Internal Tenure
The promotions read less like a personnel announcement and more like a statement about how GLI builds its leadership. Sim has been with the company since 2006, most recently as Senior Manager of Quality Assurance. Drozd and Lorick both began their GLI careers as Test Engineers and rose to Senior Managers of Engineering before this latest step.
That is the throughline. GLI is not parachuting in outside executives to run its most technical functions. It is rewarding people who learned the certification business from the test bench upward. For a company whose entire value proposition rests on technical credibility, promoting from within the lab is not sentimentality. It is risk management.
Quality Assurance Leadership Anchors the GLI Gold Standard
Sim’s move into the QA director seat was backed by pointed praise from Chris Gallo, Senior Vice President of Technical Compliance and QA. Gallo credited her with strengthening global team alignment, driving process improvements, and building a collaborative culture, adding that she leads with respect, empathy, and trust while keeping the focus on quality outcomes.
Strip away the warmth and there is a commercial signal here. Quality assurance is where GLI’s reputation either holds or cracks. Gallo framing Sim’s appointment around the phrase “the GLI gold standard” tells you exactly what the company believes is at stake: consistency of output across a global QA team serving suppliers, operators, and regulators.
Engineering Promotions Signal a Digital Growth Push
The two engineering appointments point somewhere specific. Vice President of Engineering Ginnie Hollis described Lorick as instrumental in advancing GLI’s global digital growth, citing his forward-looking mindset and disciplined execution. Vice President of Engineering Andrea Bossard praised Drozd’s technical expertise and his ability to grow key relationships and lead high-performing global teams.
Read together, those endorsements lean heavily toward digital and iGaming testing rather than legacy land-based work. That aligns with where regulated online gaming is expanding fastest, and it suggests GLI is staffing its engineering leadership to match demand from new and maturing online markets.
Why GLI Leadership Moves Matter to Operators and Suppliers
For suppliers and operators, GLI is rarely optional. Since 1989 the company has certified nearly 2 million items and tested equipment for more than 710 jurisdictions across six continents. When the people directing its QA and engineering functions change, the teams shaping your certification timelines and technical reviews change with them. Continuity at the top usually means fewer surprises in the testing pipeline, and that is worth knowing for anyone planning a launch into a regulated market.
Future Outlook for GLI Engineering and Compliance
Watch the engineering side over the next 6 to 12 months. With two new directors explicitly tied to digital growth, expect GLI to keep weighting its capacity toward iGaming and online certification as more jurisdictions open. The QA appointment points to standardisation across an increasingly distributed global workforce. The real question for the industry is whether GLI can scale that gold standard fast enough to keep pace with the markets demanding it.
