ATLANTIC CITY, NJ, Jan. 03, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Timothy Wilmott, the recently retired CEO and President of Penn National Gaming Inc. will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming 24 th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress & NexGen Gaming Forum. Wilmott will be the third recipient of this award in the conference's history. The first two recipients were Paul Rubeli, then President & CEO of Aztar Corp., and the late Dennis Gomes, who held various leadership positions as a regulator and gaming operator. "Tim Wilmott, whose career in gaming dates back more than a quarter-century, is widely respected as an industry leader who has led Penn National's extraordinary growth, and who has focused on building trust with regulators, with his staff and with the communities in which Penn operators," said Congress co-founders Lloyd D. Levenson and Michael Pollock in a joint statement.