NIGA Trade Show 2021

Dave Vialpando
Executive Director
Pokagon Band Gaming Commission


Dave Vialpando is a thirty-seven year law enforcement veteran, having served as a police officer in Richmond, CA, and for twenty-seven years as a Special Agent with the California Attorney General's Department of Justice (DOJ). Dave spent twenty years in DOJ's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement where he supervised various drug trafficking and violent crime units. For the last seven years of his career with DOJ, Dave was assigned to the Bureau of Gambling Control where he served as the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau's Southern California offices. Dave has also managed Commission and Regulatory Agency staff in the regulation of Tribal gaming and cannabis enterprises and adherence to Tribal, State, and County regulations. Mr. Vialpando also serves on the Board of Directors of the National Indian Gaming Association, Tribal Gaming Protection Network, as well as Executive Director of the California Native American Cannabis Association. Dave attended the University of California at Berkley and currently holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Masters In Business Administration degrees. Mr. Vialpando instructs undergraduate and graduate criminal justices courses for several public and private colleges and universities in Southern California. Dave has authored articles on gaming regulation and interactive gaming published in Indian Gaming Magazine, Global Gaming Business magazine, Pechanga.net, and other trade periodicals, and conducted numerous presentations through various venues on effective regulation in gaming and legal cannabis enterprises on tribal lands.

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