As the Gaming & Hospitality Practice Lead at Info-Tech Research Group, Larry Fretz manages a team of analysts to develop and deliver best-practice research specific to the gaming and hospitality industry. As owner of the GHRC research agenda, he is responsible for agenda planning and directing research in a timely and relevant manner for our customer base. He also provides sales & customer support and delivers advisory consulting services and workshops.

Larry brings more than a decade of international Gaming & Hospitality and 25+ years of overall technology, marketing, supply chain, and other business operations expertise. Larry has held CIO/VP IT and executive leadership positions with the Palms Casino Resort, the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and Niagara Casinos (Fallsview Casino Resort & Casino Niagara), resulting in respected knowledge and experience of gaming and hospitality systems and understanding of the industry’s strategic, start-up opening and day-to-day challenges. In these hands-on executive roles, he was responsible for all aspects of highly regulated and available enterprise IT from Infrastructure & Operations, Project & Portfolio Management, Security & Risk, CRM, and Architecture & Applications.

Earlier in his career, Larry held executive positions and was recognized for leveraging IT in improving company performance, growth, achieving business goals, and being a subject matter expert across multiple technology areas and business functions at such global companies as Day-Timers and PBB Global Logistics. Larry has been an innovative and action-oriented force in business technology since 1986 when he founded Micro-Wise Systems and developed the first fully computerized library management software solution.

As a client-focused strategist with strong organizational acumen, Reiaz leverages his 20+ years of management consulting experience to help C-suite executives and managers navigate the integration of changing technology with business goals. He is currently a managing director in Info-Tech’s consulting division and leads its Infrastructure practice.

During his 10 years at Info-Tech, Reiaz has also led the IT Strategy and IT Security practices. His advisory experience spans business and IT strategy, M&A due diligence, IT roadmaps, organizational redesign, ERP and vendor selection, cloud and infrastructure assessments, disaster recovery planning, business continuity, and IT-led enterprise innovation. He’s a creative, forward-thinking change agent with the proven ability to build, accelerate, and inspire initiatives in complex environments.

Prior to joining Info-Tech, Reiaz spent nine years at Deloitte as a senior practitioner in customer and channel strategy while also supporting functional re-engineering and systems implementations for finance, HR, sales, and marketing/CRM. He has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame (USA).