Andy Hendrickson

Andy Hendrickson is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at IGT. He is a technology executive with about three decades of experience in gaming and entertainment, and he has led global teams of more than 1,000 people with budgets above $200M.

Before IGT he was Chief Technology Officer at Aristocrat Technologies. There he drove the company's global technology strategy across mobile and on-premises real-money gaming. IGT's profile states that Aristocrat's market capitalisation grew 110% during his tenure, from $20B in 2021 to $42B in 2024. He led the creation of a next-generation slot design platform. He also helped set up Aristocrat's online gaming division through a mix of building and acquiring.

Earlier, he was CTO of Activision Publishing, where he led technology for console franchises including Call of Duty, Crash Bandicoot and Sekiro. The division ran several billion-dollar titles at once and served more than 50M players. His work there covered data analytics for monetisation and player engagement, and privacy-compliant infrastructure in hybrid cloud environments.

At Walt Disney Animation Studios he led technology for films including Frozen, managed a $180M annual operating plan and oversaw R&D and compute and data infrastructure. Before that he was Head of Technology at Pacific Data Images/DreamWorks Animation, supporting films such as Shrek 2 and Madagascar. He was also Senior Technology Officer at Industrial Light & Magic. His film credits include Forrest Gump, The Mask, Men in Black, Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph.

He is a named inventor on several U.S. patents covering remote collaboration, stereoscopic depth rendering and image processing. He holds a BA in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SMPTE and ACM SIGGRAPH.