{"id":6335,"date":"2026-03-27T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:18:47","slug":"gama-unveils-board-of-directors-election-winners-current-president-and-secretary-re-elected-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/gama-unveils-board-of-directors-election-winners-current-president-and-secretary-re-elected-to-board\/","title":{"rendered":"GAMA unveils board of directors election winners, current president and secretary re-elected to board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editor\u2019s note: GAMA is one of the sponsors of the BoardGameWire newsletter<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hobby games trade organisation GAMA has revealed the winning candidates in its latest board of directors election, with the organisation’s current president and secretary both retaining their board seats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Nicole Brady, who runs review site SAHM Reviews, was re-elected to the board by GAMA’s media and events member group, while treasurer Tiffany Reid from Southern Hobby Distribution won re-election from the wholesale group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current GAMA secretary Jamie Mathy – who runs game store Red Racoon Games – was re-elected by the organisation’s ‘Team Retail’ group alongside Red Claw Gaming’s Lea-Anne Welter, while David Wheeler from Dragon’s Lair and Boyd Stephenson from Game Kastle were also voted in as retailer representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those four will be selected by Team Retail to fill a retailer seat on the GAMA board of directors, with all successful board candidates working for a two-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other newly elected members of the GAMA board are Michael Maggiotto Jr, who was selected by GAMA’s production members, Heather O’Neill from 9th Level Games representing publishers, and LegalWATCH’s Eartha Johnson from the creator membership group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GAMA Board of Directors is comprised of twelve individuals elected to represent the six voting membership groups, with half of the cohort up for election each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That board in turn elects GAMA’s four officers – president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary – each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current GAMA president Brady has been in her current officer role since May 2024, having previously been treasurer of the organisation from the end of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GAMA President Nicole Brady<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Brady has been a key driver of GAMA’s current plan to become the \u201cepicentre\u201d of global tabletop gaming, underpinned by the organisation unveiling its first-ever 10-year plan last October<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The array of plans spread across the next decade include boosting its membership within both hobby games and the mass market, expanding itself into a global organisation, shifting its finances away from the current heavy reliance on the annual GAMA Expo and Origins shows, and leading the conversation on sustainability within the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocacy and brand protection is also one of its near-term priorities – underscored by the organisation\u2019s recent intensive lobbying and awareness efforts around the impact on the industry of US tariffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those efforts included multiple trips to Washington DC to lobby politicians, conducting dozens of media interviews to highlight the devastating impact of tariffs on the hobby, and supporting two lawsuits disputing Trump\u2019s power to set the tariffs<\/a> without agreement from the US Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brady told BoardGameWire earlier last year that the move was an attempt to get the organisation away from \u201cplaying whack-a-mole\u201d on important issues rather than managing them in a long-term strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GAMA is currently working to secure a permanent replacement for its previous executive director John Stacy, who left the association last October just after the 10-year plan had been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leadership consultant Zaria Davis was named as interim executive director last November<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month GAMA’s board of directors apologised for some of its elected leaders being \u201crude and disrespectful\u201d<\/a> during a \u201cheated\u201d annual general meeting at the recent GAMA Expo trade show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s GAMA Expo sealed another record attendance<\/a>, ahead of its planned move to Baltimore in 2027 to contend with rapidly growing demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 3,820 attendees showed up to this year\u2019s event in Louisville, Kentucky, up almost 12% on last year\u2019s previous record of 3,425<\/a> \u2013 which had already left the show pressed for space across the exhibition hall and its extensive programme of seminars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Nicole Brady, who runs review site SAHM Reviews, was re-elected to the board by GAMA’s media and events member group, while treasurer Tiffany Reid from Southern Hobby Distribution won re-election from the wholesale group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2093,6,135,2227,2231,2230,2234,473,11,754,2228,2229,2232,561,1631],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2093","tag-board-game","tag-board-games","tag-board-of-directors","tag-boyd-stephenson","tag-david-wheeler","tag-eartha-johnson","tag-election","tag-gama","tag-heather-oneill","tag-jamie-mathy","tag-lea-anne-welter","tag-michael-maggiotto","tag-nicole-brady","tag-tiffany-reid"],"blocksy_meta":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6341,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions\/6341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boardgamewire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}