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sport of horse racing, Cummings ran several statewide political campaigns, eventually serving as Chair-
man of the Louisville Republican Party in 2008-09 and recently completing a prolonged engagement
with the Louisville Courier-Journal as a current events columnist. He currently lives in Lexington,
Kentucky with his wife Nikki.
Susan Dolinski
Vice President of Communications and Social Responsibility, BCLC, Canada
BCLC is the Crown Corporation that oversees all gambling in British Columbia. With BCLC since
2007, Susan guides BCLC’s communications, social responsibility, and customer relations strategies. Su-
san has worked in the communications industry for 15 years and over this time has developed a passion
for community engagement and used this passion to transform BCLC’s approach to social media, stake-
holder and community relations, helping to achieve the company’s highest-ever public support ratings.
Currently, Susan is spearheading an industry-wide effort to improve public understanding of the gaming
industry and its immense contributions to BC’s economy. Prior to her time at BCLC, Susan served as
part of the executive team at the BC Ambulance Service, where she established the organization’s media,
government relations and communications programs, helping to raise the profile of paramedics. Starting
her career in the forest industry, Susan led community relations for Canadian Forest Products Ltd. and
later helped to launch and manage communications at Forestry Innovation Investment, a Crown Cor-
poration established to promote BC forest products worldwide. Susan has led the crisis communications
and issues management responses provincially and nationally during a number of high profile events in
British Columbia. Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and has also worked in radio and
TV. She is an active volunteer currently working with the Honour House Society of BC, the CKNW
Orphan’s Fund, and the United Way.
Don Feeney
Research & Planning Director, Minnesota State Lottery
Don joined the Minnesota State Lottery in 1991. He is responsible for the lottery’s market research,
policy analysis, corporate social responsibility programs, strategic planning, and legislative relations. He
previously worked with the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, the State Demographer’s Office,
the Minnesota State Planning Agency, and as a policy advisor to former Minnesota Governor Rudy
Perpich. Don has been a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Problem Gam-
bling since 2003 and served as president from 2011 to 2013. His research interests include the relation
between public opinion and gambling policy, public awareness of problem gambling, and gambling
and popular culture. Don holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard, a master’s degree in
statistics from the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics
from Brown University.
Tony Fontaine
Vice President of Business Development, Interactive Gaming and Lottery Solutions, InComm
Incomm is a global leader in retail products and technology solutions. Mr. Fontaine and his team
focus on financial services, payments technology solutions and gift card products for legal Internet
gambling operations and North American Lottery operations. Mr. Fontaine is also President of
ProPick Racing, a software company which licenses its software to Internet Horse Racing opera-
tors based on multiple patents written by Mr. Fontaine. Prior to joining InComm, Mr. Fontaine
consulted for many gaming companies including Scientific Games, Stronach Entertainment, IGT
and the Nevada Pari-Mutuel Association. Before his consulting business, Mr. Fontaine was the Vice-
President of Interactive Gaming for Station Casinos Inc. and Vice-President of Applied Technolo-
gies for Bally Gaming. He has over 30 years’ experience in marketing, sales and engineering for high
technology companies including Motorola, QMS/Imagen, SRS Imaging and Sun Microsystems, and
