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the expansion of sports betting—
to gain market share very fast,"
he says. Three years later,
after growing OneComply to
some 17 employees, Conn and
co-founder Aaron Gould sold
the startup to Vancouver-based
fraud prevention and cyberse-
curity firm GeoComply.
Conn joined GeoComply's
team of around 700 employ-
ees for about eight months
before moving on. During that
time, as a person interested in
fashion, Conn grappled with
Cameron Conn was born
and raised in Las Vegas, the
grandson of famed casino
owner and operator William
G. Bennett and the son of Par-
agon Gaming CEO Diana Ben-
nett. Conn started out with a
hard hat and boots building his
family's casino in Edmonton
and running blackjack tables
to get the hang of the business
before moving up the ranks
and overseeing Paragon's
Edgewater Casino and Parc
developments in Vancouver.
Six months before Parc was
scheduled to open, however,
Conn quit the biz.
"I had no idea what I was
going to do," he recalls. "I
started one tech company, it
crashed and burned, I learned
a tremendous amount." Then,
in 2019, he had another idea—
to help companies operating
in regulated markets (like gam-
bling) manage their licensing
obligations through centralized
dashboards. "It allowed all
these gaming companies—with
CASINOS TO CARDIGANS
Cameron Conn grew up in gambling, pivoted to tech and is now
embracing his long-time love of fashion by Nathan Caddell
F A S H I O N
SHIRT HAPPENS
Jonathan Richard
(left) and Cameron
Conn are betting on
Champlain Apparel
"
Everything
here is time-
less. You can
sit on it for 10
years and it's
going to be
relevant."
