Golden Whale names Marcel Wasserer scientific chief
Golden Whale has appointed Marcel Wasserer as Chief Scientific Officer, moving an existing AI adviser into its senior leadership team. Announced on November 10, the appointment expands Wasserer’s involvement in the company’s machine learning and decision-intelligence work for iGaming operators.
Wasserer began advising Golden Whale in January 2025. The company said his experience includes taking artificial intelligence from research into production across several industries, alongside more than a decade working in game development.
His background includes co-founding enliteAI in 2017. The Vienna-based technology venture studio develops products involving reinforcement learning and computer vision, two areas identified in Golden Whale’s account of his technical expertise.
Before his work at enliteAI, Wasserer held senior software engineering and technical leadership roles at Greentube. Golden Whale highlighted that combination of gaming-sector experience and applied AI research when announcing his appointment.
Appointment supports operator decision-making technology
“Marcel’s appointment is a signal of the increasing depth of the work we are doing here at Golden Whale and our commitment to theoretical excellence,” Golden Whale CEO Eberhard Dürrschmid said in the company’s announcement on LinkedIn.
Golden Whale develops systems intended to support decisions across customer acquisition, engagement, retention and reactivation. Its technology processes behavioral data and supplies predictions and automated actions through an operator’s existing systems, according to its published product information.
The company’s FOUNDATION framework provides the underlying machine learning layer. Its stated functions include predicting player lifetime value, identifying potential customer departures during sessions, and triggering actions based on individual behavior.
BONUS PILOT applies that infrastructure to incentives, including bonuses, rewards, tournaments, and personalized messages. Golden Whale describes the product as a means of adjusting incentive decisions using live player data and monitoring their results, rather than relying solely on fixed promotional campaigns.
