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Fri, Mar 05, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Patti Hart, the president and CEO of IGT, on her year at the helm of gaming’s largest slot manufacturer and technology company.
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Fri, Feb 26, 2010
This week on the Global Gaming Business Podcast, hear a discussion with Andrew MacDonald, the executive vice president – casino for Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, immediately after he accepted his new position.
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Fri, Feb 19, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features a discussion with Barry Shier, the managing principal with the Partner House, an independent management firm located in Las Vegas, on the former Wynn executive’s views of the gaming industry today.
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Fri, Feb 12, 2010
This week, join the Global Gaming Business Podcast for an interview with noted gaming attorney Nick Casiello, a partner with the Atlantic City branch of the Fox Rothschild law firm, about his career and the challenges facing Atlantic City in the current economic climate.
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Fri, Feb 05, 2010
This week the Global Gaming Business Podcast features and interview with Kim Sinatra, the senior vice president and general counsel for Wynn Resorts, on her long career on the legal side of the gaming industry.
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Fri, Jan 29, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Randy Fine, the managing director of the Fine Point Group, on the company’s spectacularly successful year in 2009 and prospects for even bigger things in 2010.
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Fri, Jan 22, 2010
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Don Marrandino, the president of Harrah’s Entertainment’s eastern region. He discusses his impressions of the Atlantic City market since his appointment six months ago.
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Fri, Jan 15, 2010
This week’s Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Michael Johnson, Dean, Cornell School of Hotel Administration, who discusses the college’s increasing emphasis on gaming as part of the degree curriculum.
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Fri, Jan 08, 2010
Redenia Gilliam-Mosee, a former Bally’s and Harrah’s Atlantic City executive, died last week, leaving behind a legacy that included deep community involvement. This week, we feature her last interview with Global Gaming Business magazine, for an interview that ran in February of last year.
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Sat, Dec 26, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Kate Spilde, an associate professor in the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at San Diego State University, on the state of higher education in Indian gaming.
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Sun, Dec 20, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features a conversation with David Patent, the chief operating officer for Rush Street Gaming, the casino operations arm of the company owned by Chicago billionaire Neil Bluhm, with operations in Pennsylvania, Mississippi and soon to be Illinois.
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Sat, Dec 12, 2009
This week the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Tim Parrott, the chief executive officer of Shuffle Master Inc., who talks about his company’s revival over the past year and what it plans for the future.
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Fri, Dec 04, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Sunder Advani, the chairman and managing director of Advani Hotels & Resorts India, on his role in developing the first casino operation in India’s Goa state and where the industry is headed in one of the world’s most populous nations.
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Sun, Nov 29, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Bob Boughner, the president and CEO of the Borgata Casino Hotel & Spa in Atlantic City, on the future of the city and the difficulties it faces because of surrounding competition, the economy and a partial smoking ban.
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Sun, Nov 22, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Brian Gamache, the chairman, and Orrin Edidin, the president of WMS Gaming on the state of their company recorded prior to the industry’s largest trade show, Global Gaming Expo, which was held last week.
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Fri, Nov 13, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with James Maida, the president of the leading technology testing organization in the gaming industry, Gaming Laboratories International.
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Sat, Nov 07, 2009
This week’s GGB Podcast features an extended interview with Michael Leven, the president and chief operating officer of Las Vegas Sands, on his role in the company, his relationship with the chairman and his view on the upcoming opening of the company’s Singapore project.
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Sat, Oct 31, 2009
This week, the GGB Podcast features an interview with Roger Thomas, the executive vice president of design for Wynn Design and Development, on his role in the design of Encore Las Vegas and his upcoming Sarno Award for Lifetime Achievement to be presented to him at G2E later this month.
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Fri, Oct 23, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast presents an interview with Lorenzo Langford, the mayor of Atlantic City, on the difficulties facing that city’s casino industry just a week before his re-election bid.
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Fri, Oct 16, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Phil Hogen, who just resigned as chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, on his time with the commission and his views on tribal gaming.
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Fri, Oct 09, 2009
This week, the GGB Podcast features an interview with Bob Faiss, a partner with Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, and one of the leading gaming attorneys in Nevada and all the gaming industry.
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Fri, Oct 02, 2009
This week’s GGB Podcast features an interview with Michael Anderson, a noted Indian gaming attorney who is a partner in the Washington D.C. law firm of AndersonTuell, who lobbies the federal government on issues of importance to Indian Country.
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Fri, Sep 25, 2009
This week, the GGB Podcast features an interview with Bob DeSalvio, the president of the Sands Bethlehem Casino in Pennsylvania on the first six weeks of operation of his property.
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Sat, Sep 19, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features and interview with Ellen Whittemore, a gaming attorney with Lionel Sawyer & Collins in Las Vegas. Whittemore is a former official with the state regulatory agencies who understands the inner workings of the procedures in Nevada and she discusses some of her experiences with companies and regulators in Nevada and around the world.
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Fri, Sep 11, 2009
This week's GGB Podcast features Steve Rittvo, the president of the Innovation Group of Companies. He discusses the current state of the industry, expansion opportunities, marketing initiatives and more with Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros.
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Fri, Aug 28, 2009
This week, the GGB Podcast presents an interview with Lawrence Ho, the president of Melco Crown Entertainment, one of the largest casino operators in Macau, taped in Macau in June.
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Sat, Aug 01, 2009
This week, the GGB Podcast features an interview with Mac Seelig, the president of AC Coin & Slot, on his many years in the gaming industry, his perception about integrity in gaming and his views on the manufacturing sector of the business.
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Fri, Jul 24, 2009
This week, the GGB Podcast features an exclusive interview with Kevin DeSanctis, the CEO of Revel Entertainment. Publisher Roger Gros talks to him about the project, its many features and the possibility for obtaining financing to complete what will surely be a seminal development on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
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Fri, Jul 03, 2009
Gaming analyst Bill Lerner, along with Deutsche Bank colleagues Rich Moriarty and Grant Govertsen, left the investment bank to start their own research and consulting firm, Union Gaming Group. Hear about how they plan to expand their influence in the gaming industry and grow their business.
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Sun, Jun 07, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Randy Fine, the managing director of the Fine Point Group, one of the hottest consulting companies in the industry.
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Fri, May 15, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Mark Gore, the vice president and general manager, and Phil Shalala, the vice president of marketing, of the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Fri, May 08, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with John Donnelly, an Atlantic City attorney and partner with Levin Staller with deep roots in the gaming industry.
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Fri, Apr 10, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features Paul Hobson, the general manager of the Aquarius Hotel & Casino in Laughlin on the upgrades that are nearly completed at that property.
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Sun, Mar 29, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast presents an interview with Mike Nolan, the general manager of the El Cortez in Downtown Las Vegas, on what he and his team have done to revive what is now one of the most exciting hotels in that area.
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Sun, Mar 08, 2009
This week the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Steve Szapor, the president of the Innovation Group, on the formation of a new division of the company, Innovation Management.
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Sat, Feb 21, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Bob McDevitt, the president of Local 54 of UNITE HERE in Atlantic City, the union that represents the culinary and hotel workers in the city.
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Sun, Feb 08, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Heikki Rinta-Panttila, the general manager of Finland’s Grand Casino Helsinki, on the gaming industry in the far north.
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Sun, Feb 01, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Marilyn Winn, the president of the Rio, Bally’s and Paris hotels in Las Vegas on the tough economic times on the Strip.
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Tue, Jan 27, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Ron Sultemeier, the managing director for Delaware North Gaming & Hospitality on his company’s recent win of the VLT license at Aqueduct Raceway in New York City.
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Sun, Jan 18, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Richard Brown, the president and CEO of Planet Hollywood Resorts Worldwide, on his new job and his former bosses.
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Sun, Jan 11, 2009
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Kevin Kelley, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Station Casinos, on how the locals' casino operator is responding to the economic crisis.
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Sun, Dec 28, 2008
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Kevin Gover, the director of the Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Gover has a long history with Indian gaming and tribal-federal issues.
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Sun, Dec 21, 2008
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Nigel Morrison, the CEO of SkyCity Entertainment Group, the largest gaming company in New Zealand.
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Sun, Dec 21, 2008
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Bob Sturges, the president and CEO of Nevada Gold, a longtime casino executive who has righted the ship at his new company. Sturges took over Nevada Gold two years ago and has spent that time divesting the company of non-gaming assets, including a string of Pizza Hut restaurants in Brazil. Although down to only one operation in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and an Indian gaming contract, Sturges believes Nevada Gold is positioned perfectly as a buyer of small- to medium-sized gaming operations in the U.S. and beyond. He spoke with Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros from his office in Dallas in September.
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Sun, Dec 21, 2008
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Shawn Ellis, the president of Ellis Gaming, which focuses on gaming consulting in Indian Country. Ellis got his start with the San Pascual tribe in California, where he worked with the Marnell Group to turn around a struggling casino. That has become his specialty these days, an important aspect during this economic downturn. Ellis Gaming includes many experts, in and out of gaming, who can provide marketing, financial and operational assistance to gaming operators. He spoke with Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros in his office in Las Vegas in October.
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Mon, Dec 01, 2008
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Jim Druck, the president and CEO of Southwest Casino Corp., a small operator based in Minnesota with a bright future. Southwest Casinos was one of the first companies to get involved in Indian gaming. The company blazed the trail in compacts, management contracts and Class II regulations in many regions. Today, the company owns two casinos in Cripple Creek, Colorado, manages the Running Aces racetrack and card room in Minneapolis, and is involved in a resort-casino development in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Druck explains the genesis of the company and how it expects to be able to take advantage of an industry de-consolidating. Along with company president Jim Fox, Druck spoke with Global Gaming Business Publisher Roger Gros from his offices in Minneapolis in October.
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Sat, Nov 01, 2008
This week, the Global Gaming Business Podcast features an interview with Terry Caudill, the president and CEO of TLC Casino Enterprises, which owns the Four Queens and Binions in Downtown Las Vegas. Caudill started his career as a keno writer at Harrah’s Reno. Later while with Circus Circus, he ventured into the neighborhood bar-casino scene in Las Vegas. He bought the Four Queens in 2003 and recently took over Binions when MTR Gaming sold out. As a former casino worker, Caudill understands the importance of the employees, while at the same time, catering to the needs and desires of his customers. His commitment to the Downtown market is unshakable and his plans are extensive. Caudill spoke with Global Gaming Business Associate Editor Greg Jones via phone from his Las Vegas office in October.
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