About me
Happie Poonian is a GameSense Team Leader in Player Health, at the BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC). After moving from UK to Canada, he first started out his career in the gambling industry working as security in BC Casinos. During those three years, Happie gained understanding of the challenges players and service operators can face to keep gambling safe and healthy. Using this experience, as well as his background in education, Happie became a GameSense Advisor (GSA), and is now leading a team of GSAs, which are instrumental to providing responsible gambling awareness and education to players in BC, founded in player health research. Recently Happie supported the reconceptualization of BCLC’s Voluntary Self-Exclusion program to Game Break, which now includes BC’s first active reinstatement program with a focus on empowering individuals to choose how or if they return to play.