Ismail Vali is the President of GCI and the inventor, founder and former CEO of Yield Sec™, a leading technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces.
Ismail Vali is the President of GCI and the inventor, founder and former CEO of Yield Sec™, a leading technical intelligence platform for online marketplaces.
About
Ismail Vali is the President of Gaming Compliance International (GCI) and the inventor, founder and former CEO of Yield Sec™. He leads a global team across the operations of a technical intelligence platform that monitors, polices, enforces, and optimizes the marketplace across online gaming, streaming, crypto and consumer goods.
From a career spanning online gaming, product development, marketing, and online operations, including multiple C-level roles across the betting and gaming industry, and with a BA and MA in Law from Brasenose College, Oxford University, Ismail created a unique solution to a long-standing online industry problem: the impact of crime on commerce, communities, and consumers.
In his role as President, he drives GCI’s AI-powered compliance and regulatory technology platform to deliver marketplace transparency, enhanced data capture, actionable intelligence, and transaction monitoring that helps governments, regulators, tribal nations, and operators move their online gaming marketplaces from chaos to control.
GCI President Ismail Vali with Travis Makes Friends - July 2026
GCI President Ismail Vali with CNBC Africa - July 2026
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GCI with RUV - June 2026
Hedgeye with GCI: May 2026
Right About Now with GCI - May 2026
In the News
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"Crime laughing at all of us" - US unregulated gambling put at $97bn
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Africa's $18 billion unregulated gambling blind spot
Player protection: Why World Cup gambling warnings have changed
GCI
GCI is the proven leader in regulatory gaming compliance technology and consultancy, providing a single-source, AI-powered platform for player protection, advertising and media content monitoring, black-market mitigation, automated data capture, revenue auditing, and operator compliance reporting. GCI’s focus is on enhancing marketplace transparency and revenue optimization for regulators and licensed operators while establishing a robust compliance framework that protects jurisdictions, audiences, and the broader gaming ecosystem.
Yield Sec
Yield Sec™, short for yield security, is a technical intelligence platform monitoring all audience activity across gambling, streaming, crypto and consumer goods to see the total online marketplace - both legal and illegal. Yield Sec delivers analysis, actions and recommendations to ensure online stakeholders make the money they should - and are not stolen from by crime.