Reza Shojaei
Editor-in-Chief
Reza Shojaei is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of CasinoTop. He owns the platform's editorial direction, comparison methodology, and structured intelligence framework — combining editorial review with the Casino Data Index, Gaming License Index, SlotIndex, and PayoutIndex.
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About Reza Shojaei
Reza Shojaei is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of CasinoTop — the person accountable for the platform's editorial direction, its operator and market comparison standards, and the integration of CasinoTop's proprietary structured intelligence framework. His role is not that of a reviewer cycling through sign-up flows; it is that of a methodology owner who determines how CasinoTop measures, categorises, and presents information about online casinos, licensing environments, slot titles, and payment systems across regulated markets. CasinoTop's intelligence architecture — the Casino Data Index (CDI) for operator and market data, the Gaming License Index (GLI) for licensing and regulatory signals, SlotIndex for slot and provider metadata including RTP, and PayoutIndex for payment method and redemption observations — exists because Reza built the editorial framework that defines what gets tracked, how it gets normalised, and how it informs published output. With more than 12 years of industry experience spanning online casinos, bonus analysis, payout systems, and regulatory frameworks, Reza brings structural depth to CasinoTop's coverage of the US market and beyond. His work ensures that every comparison page, operator profile, and category ranking reflects a defensible, consistent methodology rather than a collection of individual opinions. Learn more about who CasinoTop is and how the platform approaches editorial independence.
Editorial responsibilities
As founder and Editor-in-Chief, Reza Shojaei owns the methodology and the structured intelligence framework behind CasinoTop, and how both are applied across markets.
Methodology ownership
Defines and maintains the CasinoTop comparison methodology — which factors are collected, how operators and markets are compared, and how output is structured per jurisdiction.
Infrastructure integration
Owns how CasinoTop’s structured intelligence systems — Casino Data Index, Gaming License Index, SlotIndex, and PayoutIndex — are integrated, normalized, and surfaced inside reviews, comparison pages, and category pages.
Operator comparison standards
Sets the standards for how operators are compared, ensuring evaluation factors are applied consistently and that commercial relationships never change how data is presented.
Market-specific rules
Defines how different regulatory contexts — sweepstakes, licensed real-money, and international markets — are handled, including where redemption framing replaces payout framing.
Commercial and editorial separation
Maintains the separation between commercial relationships and editorial output, so affiliate arrangements do not influence inclusion, structure, or comparison.
Areas of expertise
Reza Shojaei's editorial work on CasinoTop covers the following specialized domains.
Credentials
Founder of CasinoTop
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of CasinoTop, with final accountability for the platform’s editorial direction and structure.
Founder of Evergreen Media AS
Founder of Evergreen Media AS, the company that operates and publishes CasinoTop.
CasinoTop methodology and platform structure
Responsible for the CasinoTop comparison methodology and how the platform organizes operators, markets, and content.
Structured intelligence framework
Oversees the use of the Casino Data Index, Gaming License Index, SlotIndex, and PayoutIndex inside CasinoTop.
Q&A: CasinoTop's Methodology & Editorial System
Editorial policy
Content produced by Reza Shojaei follows the CasinoTop editorial framework. All evaluations are independent of commercial relationships.
- Editorial evaluations are based on documented operator data, internal methodology, and structured review processes.
- Affiliate relationships with operators do not influence scores, rankings, or editorial framing
- Corrections and updates are applied when operator conditions change materially
- No operator has editorial access, approval rights, or the ability to modify published content
Reza Shojaei
Editor-in-Chief