Duncan Hannay is a purpose-driven leader with proven ability to champion new ideas, build winning teams and drive innovation to deliver strong results to his stakeholders. As President and CEO, Duncan and his team are committed to building a strategy for the future and leading the organization through recovery and the next phase of growth, while continuing to support communities across Ontario.

Duncan has more than 25 years of experience growing businesses across industries, channels and locations around the world. Before joining OLG, he was President and CEO of Street Capital Group Inc, a Canadian public company offering best-in-class retail banking products through its Schedule I bank platform. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Finastra, a global leader in software solutions for retail banking, transaction banking, lending, and treasury and capital markets. He also served as an executive leader at the Canadian-based financial technology provider D+H, as President of Global Lending Solutions and as President of D+H Canada. In addition, Duncan has held senior executive positions with global financial service providers Scotiabank and E*TRADE Financial.

In 2010, Duncan was inducted into the McMaster University Alumni Gallery, and in 2013, was recognized as “Marketer of the Year” by U.S.-based Strategy Magazine.

Duncan is an active supporter of charitable causes and community development. As a long-serving board member and former Chair of Covenant House Toronto, he has worked to enhance public awareness of the challenges facing homeless youth, while strengthening community supports.

Along with his team, Duncan is also committed to continuing to make diversity, equity, and inclusion a key part of the culture at OLG and everything it does.

Duncan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University.

Alexandra Aguzzi provides executive leadership for master brand marketing, corporate communications, corporate social responsibility, and government and community relations. Alexandra leads OLG’s globally recognized PlaySmart program which contributes to excellence in the customer experience, responsible growth and sustainability.

Since joining OLG in 2007, she has managed OLG’s relationship with the Ontario government, establishing the Government Relations department to lead this work. Her role has since expanded to include public affairs, internal and external communications, corporate brand, issues management, media relations, French language services and social responsibility.

Before joining OLG, Alexandra spent 17 years working in the Ontario government including the Ministry of Finance. Alexandra received an Amethyst for supporting negotiations with Ontario First Nations (2008). Alexandra also served as Chief of Staff for two Deputy Ministers and led a team responsible for oversight of the LCBO, AGCO and the Ontario Racing Commission.

Alexandra holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Masters of Social Work from the University of Toronto.

Pinder is responsible for providing strategic oversight to the financial performance of the organization, including all financial planning, financial reporting and budget forecasting. This includes providing an independent perspective and constructive challenge to the lines of business, ensuring business decisions are grounded in solid financial criteria.

In addition to fulfilling traditional finance accountabilities, Pinder is also accountable for OLG’s Enterprise Procurement, Enterprise Analytics, Risk Management, Corporate Real Estate & Facilities Management and Security Services functions.

Prior to joining OLG, Pinder served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Mastermind Toys. In this role, Pinder was a key member of the executive team that grew Mastermind Toys from a Toronto-based retailer into a national chain and e-commerce operation. Prior to Mastermind Toys, Pinder served as a Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations with Universal Studios Canada, a division of NBC Universal.

Pinder is a designated Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

Hestie Benn leads the Internal Audit function at OLG. She is responsible for enhancing and protecting organizational value by providing risk-based and objective assurance, advice, and insight to help OLG accomplish its objectives. This includes taking a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control processes.

Hestie reports directly to the Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of OLG’s Board of Directors, with a dotted-line administrative connection to the President and CEO.   

Hestie joined OLG in 2019 as Director of IT Audit, with over 20 years of Internal Audit experience. Prior to joining OLG, she had a long-standing career at two of the world’s top five gold mining companies. She held various Internal Audit management positions including the head of the audit as part of the Risk and Audit division.

In addition to holding a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and Diploma in Datametrics, Hestie is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Information Systems Auditor and is Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control. 

Nancy Kennedy is responsible for driving value and growth within OLG’s Lottery business and has oversight of the company’s enterprise Customer Experience function. This includes developing new products and customer experiences as well as ensuring excellence in all of OLG’s frontline customer facing operations. She and her team work closely with OLG’s other lines of business and external partners to ensure that the company keeps pace with an evolving marketplace and customer demands.

In addition, Nancy leads OLG’s Enterprise Strategy function which supports all areas of the organization. This team is accountable for the development of the organization’s strategic plan to ensure OLG achieves its mandate of socially responsible revenue growth and economic development. 

In January 2023, Nancy also assumed a two-year role as President of the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC) that administers LOTTO 6/49, LOTTO MAX, and Daily Grand with partners across Canada.

Prior to joining OLG, Nancy had a long-standing career in the Ontario Public Service where she served in a range of portfolios up to the level of Deputy Minister. She was also the inaugural President and Chief Operating Officer at the Ontario Cannabis Store.

Janine is responsible for ensuring that OLG’s technology enables the achievement of critical growth and expansion priorities; enhances the multi-channel, multi-product customer experience; and contributes to OLG’s operational success by fostering strong partnerships and driving innovative technology solutions.

She provides leadership in all areas of the IT portfolio, including strategy and innovation; planning; business enablement; enterprise architecture and design; infrastructure; development; data centers; end-user support; quality assurance and testing; cyber and information security; information governance; and vendor management.

Janine is also responsible for the enterprise project management office, which oversees project management governance and standards and the delivery of complex enterprise-wide initiatives and priorities.

Prior to joining OLG, Janine served as the Chief Information Officer at Allstate Canada Group (ACG), where she successfully transformed the company’s longstanding legacy IT system to a modernized platform. She also instantiated core concepts of business agility through the use of Scale Agile Framework for Enterprise practices. As an advocate for women in technology, Janine also led the women in tech mentorship and ally program for the ACG global team. 

David Pridmore leads OLG’s digital business, land-based gaming operations and business development activities. Dave is responsible for developing and delivering OLG’s digital strategy with a focus on growth, new value creation and speed to market. He has end-to-end accountability for the digital business and the development of best-in-class digital capabilities and offerings to meet the changing demands of customers and rapidly evolving marketplace dynamics and optimizing returns on investment in a responsible way.

Dave oversees land-based gaming operations. He has end-to-end accountability for land-based gaming business results through effective relationship management and maximizing performance with OLG’s land-based Casino Gaming and Charitable Gaming partners and considering new opportunities for responsible growth. Dave is responsible for delivering on OLG’s mandate in support of a sustainable horse racing industry in Ontario and managing OLG’s relationship with the Horse Racing industry, the government of Ontario and industry stakeholders.

Dave and his team are accountable for leading OLG’s business development activities by identifying industry trends, developing, and maintaining relationships with existing and new external partners to identify investment opportunities across OLG’s lines of business.

With more than 15 years of experience, David is an accomplished finance and strategy executive with significant expertise in strategy development, financial assessment and commercial transactions. He previously held multiple roles at Shoppers Drug Mart and OLG where he was responsible for infrastructure development, financial relationship management and the development of the Land-based Gaming modernization strategy.

David holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Business Administration from McMaster University.

Tony Wong is responsible for providing legal and compliance support that enables OLG business and functional areas to achieve their strategies within established legal frameworks. Tony provides strategic advice to OLG’s Board of Directors and executive leadership team on all critical legal matters which have the potential of resulting in reputational, legal or financial risk to OLG. As OLG’s Corporate Secretary, Tony oversees Board Governance, including board policies and procedures, and other requirements related to board fiduciary duties.

Tony has extensive expertise and experience in the areas of litigation, contract, tort, privacy and administrative law, and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining OLG, Tony was a partner at the Toronto law firm of Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP and regularly appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario.

Tony earned a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.

Esther Zdolec is responsible for the development and implementation of enterprise workforce strategies that build a diverse, performance-driven culture, enable ways of working to drive the enterprise strategy, and positions OLG as an employer of choice to attract and retain top-talent. This includes integrating sound management practices and equity, diversity, and inclusion principles into policies and programs that continually evolves OLG’s human capital and creates an environment where all employees can excel.
 
Before joining OLG, Esther served as Vice President, Organizational Effectiveness and Human Resources at Fleming College. In this role, Esther was responsible for the full range of human resources and labour relations services across the college.

Prior to Fleming College, Esther held executive roles in both the public and private sector, including Executive Vice President, Human Resources at Infrastructure Ontario; Vice President, Human Resources at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories; and Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Candu Energy and SNC-Lavalin.

Esther holds a Bachelor of Arts in Labour Management Relations from the University of Toronto, as well as a Masters in Human Resources Management from York University.