CEO Conversations with Ari Palmer & Damon Gura

Join the Austin technology community in a fireside chat with Ari Palmer & Damon Gura. Ari and Damon will discuss how they made their way to Austin, how the Austin community is supporting their business, and how to attract investors.

Damon Gura is the founder and CEO of DGN Games, a leading social casino gaming company. Damon is the creator of the Old Vegas Slots mobile game which won Facebook’s 2014 Best of Games award after only 6 months of operations. DGN Games was acquired by Crown Resorts who is based in Melbourne, Australia in 2015.

As CEO Damon oversees the strategy and operations of a global gaming business that generates $30+m of top line revenue on an annual basis. DGN has about 150 employees with offices in Tel Aviv, Sydney, Kiev, and Austin. DGN has been named as the fastest growing social casino company several times in the Eiler and Krejcik Social Casino Tracker industry leading report.   

Prior to his experience as the CEO of DGN Games, Damon has been a product and technology leader in the casino gaming space since 1996. Damon is a named inventor on over 100 filed and 30 issued patents in the land based and online interactive casino spaces. 

MBA, Northwestern Kellogg Graduate School of Business, MSEE, BSEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Ohio University.

Ari Palmer is the Co-Founder & CEO of TaxTaker, a VC-backed tax savings company. Over the course of her career, Ari has helped hundreds of companies save tens of millions of dollars on taxes through R&D tax credits and more. A California native, Ari moved to Austin in 2016 and subscribes to the Texas Manifesto, steadfast in the belief that incredible companies are built and supported here.