Legendary Casino Masters CASINO RESCUE brings a team of casino industry superstars with proven track records  a team normally far beyond the budget capabilities of all but the largest casinos organizations. The Casino Rescue team includes world-renowned experts in legal issues, finance, management, customer service, F&B, technology, marketing, loss preventions, table games, sports book, slot machines & math, specialized markets, design and construction, entertainment, bingo, floor layout & game mix, and every area of casino, hotel, F&B, and entertainment operations. Additionally, we have pre- screened a number of best-of-breed vendors matched to the most profitable business models in the industry. Click on these links for details: GARY GREEN  BUDDY LEVY  JOHNNY WINOKUR  PROJECT-BY-PROJECT TEAM

Gary Green

Besides starring in the show and being a best-selling author on casino subject matter, Gary Green is one of the country’s leading casino operators and marketers as well as one of the most written-about figures in modern casino gaming. He is the creator of the proven, copyrighted, and patent-pending management operational & budgeting system that forms the basis of our “rescues”. A former vice president of Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts, during the past 35 years Gary Green, himself, has become one of the casino industry’s iconic brands and has worked in or managed almost every operating department inside a modern casino hotel resort. Primarily known for his cutting-edge marketing technologies and creative programs, he also is widely-recognized as one of the casino world’s most knowledgeable executives in every aspect of operations, strategic planning, and business modeling. Just in the past year he has been quoted in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Newark Star-Ledger, The Los Angeles Times, CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, the official NASDAQ news feed, countless trade publications, and scores of syndicated and local radio and television news programs. He is the author of the best-selling history of Native American casinos, “Osceola’s Revenge” as well as the books “Gambling Man”, “Marketing Donald Trump”, “Because That’s What We Do”, the textbook “Marketing-Driven Casino Operational Business Plans”, and the upcoming 2019 “Crossroaders, Georges, and Sporting Men”. Gary Green™ is one of only a few casino executives colorful enough to be memorialized in the prestigious Smithsonian Institution, have thousands of Twitter followers and Facebook fans, registered in IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database), listed in the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, and have two Pulitzer Prize nominations, along with a string of other honors and awards. He has spent more than four decades in the casino and entertainment industry in roles from marketing to CEO. He has served on the Board of Directors of the publicly-traded Atlantis Internet Group; on the board of the Las Vegas based Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM); on the Board of privately-held Hotel Smart Rooms, Inc., and and of Tenare Record Corporation; and he is the former owner of the world-renowned EuroCircus. Gary Green is a walking compendium of vast and varied cross-industry expertise from technology to entertainment to real estate, journalism, franchising, tourism, and (of course) casino gaming. Gary Green™ is represented by CMA of Beverly Hills  New York  London  Toronto. For more information see: www.GaryGreen.com

Buddy J. Levy

President, CEO and co-founder of Gary Green Gaming™, Inc. Buddy Levy is truly one of the founding fathers of the modern business-oriented casino industry. He is a genuine luminary of the modern casino industry. He negotiated, and held for 20 years, the first Indian casino management contract and was one of the guiding forces in bringing the landmark 1981 court case that created Indian casinos in America. Today, he is widely recognized as a leading expert in slot machine regulatory requirements and casino business models. Creator, financier, legal advisor, and operator of dozens of casinos across the United States and Latin America, Buddy Levy is widely regarded as a legal and operational visionary whose guidance gestated some of the most successful casino empires in history. A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Buddy has been practicing law since 1974 and is licensed in the States of Florida and Texas. He is a General Member of the International Masters of Gaming Law whose members include internationally selected attorneys specializing in a gaming practice, regulators and other persons engaged in gaming at a high level. For most of Buddy’s career his practice has concentrated on both transactional and gaming matters and for more than half that time he has served in the position of General Counsel for different companies. Buddy has been involved in both the legal and operational side of casino gaming since 1979. Today, he combines a transactional legal practice, including a General Counsel position, with that of his private gaming practice representing primarily foreign entities desiring entry into the United States gambling market through Tribally- Owned Casinos. An expert in navigating gaming regulatory requirements, he is widely recognized as a master of the detailed and constantly changing licensing procedures, and expert in knowing the complex list of persons to know and work with in the details and customs of dealing with Native American Tribes and Tribally-Owned Casinos. More info is available at: www.lawlevy.com and http://garygreengaming.com/buddylevy.htm.

Johnny Winokur

Executive Vice-President of Operations & Development, Johnny Winokur is a casino industry legend, from the heyday of Las Vegas, whose seemingly limitless acumen is matched only by his boundless network within the industry. A second-generation “casino boss”, he has spent more than 40 years in the gaming industry all over the country including executive stints as a boss at iconic Las Vegas casinos like The Dunes, The Desert Inn, Arizona Charlie’s, The Tropicana, The Aladdin, Silver City, Pop’s Oasis, and even working personally with Baron Hilton to open his Queen of New Orleans Riverboat Casino. Widely regarded as a hands-on operational and casino development genius, he assembled and operated the largest fleet of high-seas gambling ships in history and has built casino empires for some of the biggest names in casino history. One of the best operational executives in the industry, Johnny was raised in the casino industry, quite literally; his father was one of classic Las Vegas’ casino “bosses”. He started his career as a table games dealer in Las Vegas, but quickly moved up the ladder through every conceivable position eventually leading to Operations Director, General Manager, and CEO in both commercial and Tribal operations. He has operated more than a dozen sportsbooks, opening the first off shore sports books ever, netting into the seven-figures. While on the promotional side, he developed and organized numerous golf tournaments and charity functions that have aided in enhancing public relations with surrounding communities. Over the years he has broadened his expertise in team building, guest services, and public speaking through focus on Peter Scott’s “Competitive Edge," “Train the Trainer” by Robinson & Associates, and the Dale Carnegie Team Building program. He also adds to his credit creation of a dealer’s training school, and an extensive casino management mentoring program for Tribal Members. In Indian Country, he has operated greenfield projects, rehab projects, and reorganizations. He has designed slot floors, table games & poker rooms, and operated facility operations from housekeeping, construction, computer operations, hiring & training, Gaming Authority & compliance, as well as contracts, negotiations and budgeting. Johnny Winokur accurately acknowledges that he has never had a casino failure; turning around some of the most dire-situation properties in the country. More information at: http://garygreengaming.com/johnnywinokur.htm

PROJECT-BY-PROJECT TEAM

Financial development & modeling is the expertise of Michael J. Rasmussen, an investment banker by trade, with a long history in development and working with venture funds, investors, and government agencies. He has served as a Vice President of Business Development for Bank of the West, as well as stints with Community Development Bank, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, GE Capital, and other leading banking and lending corporations. His deep-level expertise in Native American grant generation and administration for sustainable economic development programs combined with his intricate knowledge of financial processes has repeatedly allowed him to create programs that propelled his banks into leadership positions. In one case his work propelled his bank to become the number one SBA lender in the region. Michael’s expertise manages the complexities of gaming vs. non-gaming revenue -especially in Indian Country- administering grant funds for the non-gaming attractions, amenities, shopping, & dining; audit; and investor relations. Michael Rasmussen also devises the business models for each of the resort amenities so that each becomes an economic engine as an intricate piece of the overall project. Customer Service & Training, Roger Ooms. If anyone understands building customer relationships it is Roger Ooms, well-known throughout the gaming industry for his focused customer service taught to gaming managers and implemented to customers. His background includes placing gaming at every United States military PX (post exchange complex) in the world. Beyond implementation of games, he has always required intense focus on the customer experience. A former gaming owner and corporate executive, Roger understands first-hand the Gary Green Gaming™ intense focus on the customer experience developed by Gary Green and Johnny Winokur. Roger has trained and implemented customer service through the auspices numerous gaming manufacturing companies and managed each of them into industry leaders, bringing them and their businesses into the next generation. Starting in the industry within the most customer-centric sector, Roger Ooms’ career grew from running a Knights of Columbus bingo hall into providing electronic bingo and gaming machines throughout his vast network of casinos within several countries. Chief Technology Developer, Patrick Maciel is a technology team leader and senior engineer at slot-machine behemoth Scientific Games, one of the world’s largest electronic gaming machine companies (formerly Bally and WMS). His extensive development background includes multiple technologies and trailblazing software expansions. He was responsible for installation and support of interfaces between online gaming systems and multiple land-based casinos utilizing Amazon Cloud Services and Microsoft Azure Cloud. He went on to be a founder of a hotel-services company focused on casino-hotel-resort automation. He was the developer of the Las Vegas casino-hotel on-site mapping system available on cellphones and mobile devices; and he holds a number of cutting-edge technology patents and copyrights. Tribal liaison Ernest Stevens III is co-host of Native Report, a PBS television series celebrating native culture, and is a member of the Oneida Nation. He is a seasoned marketing, communications, media production and tourism expert who has produced TV, documentary, and Theatrical Film properties, and countless other media projects. He is also the son and namesake of the Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Association. He also is Ernest is a VP President for an emerging online gaming company. DIRECT MARKETING & DATABASE, Magnum Integrated Marketing is one of the top casino marketing and database companies in the world. Servicing more than fifty casino clients operating in multiple jurisdictions across the country, they are widely recognized as one of the leading Marketing-Communications companies operating in the Gaming, Hospitality, and Entertainment. Long time operatives in casino gaming, they are known for their branding, database management, and defining long-term strategic needs of clients that have included Trump Entertainment Resorts, Isle of Capri, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Argosy, Boyd Gaming, The Sands, Harrah’s, The D, Tropicana Casino and Peninsula Gaming among many others. Their founder, Frank Palmieri’s relationship with Gary Green began when Frank’s company was the agency for Trump and Gary was Vice President of Marketing and Player Development for Donald Trump. CHEF MICHAEL LOVE is a TV star, celebrity chef, best-selling author, dubbed a “culinary guru” by The Miami Herald. He is the creator and star of “Cooking with Love,” which was featured on Deco Drive, a popular nightly entertainment TV show. He is the author of “The Savage Chef Cookbook”, as well as “Love in the Kitchen —Women Love Men Who Can Cook”. Responsible for the creation, development and production of a new co-branded line of gourmet products called "Epicure with LOVE", gourmet soups, sauces, specialty entrées, desserts and a "black label” high-end line of specialty foods. Hotel Operations, Barbara Davis is one of the nation’s premier hotel operators within the casino space. She has served as Vice President Hotel Services of ARIA Resort & Casino, Vice President of Hotel Services for Bellagio Hotel & Casino, Vice President of Hotel operations for the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino, Director of Hotel Services for the Mirage Resort Casino, Director of Housekeeping for MGM, and several Native American casinos. Her experience as a Senior Hotel Executive, offers significant value for developing new strategic goals, and redefining department operations and standards. She played major roles in the pre-opening and deployment process of numerous major Hotel and Resort Casino properties. Driven by her passion and dedication to the business of hospitality, her 37-year career has been filled with expertise is in setting service standards, establishing job descriptions, creating budgets, linen & terry and drapery selections, and developing uniform designs. Casino Manager, John Mollica, a seasoned casino staff trainer and teacher, currently holds a casino licenses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Ohio. He has opened several casinos from “ground up” and in those development projects handled floor layout, installation, dealer and supervisor school, set up policies and procedures, teach as well as the complex tasks of training Gaming Commission personnel in regulatory procedures. He has served management roles with Harrahs, Penn National, Oceans Cruises, SunCruz, Ameristar, and Ballys. John’s games expertise, especially on the table games side, is key to effective revenue generation and customer retention. Our Sportsbook Consultant, John English is one of the world’s leading experts on sportsbooks and specialized gaming. He created some of the most successful sportsbooks in the USA and currently holds the exclusive sportsbook license for China. A partner and Managing Director of Global Market Advisors, John is a global operator, developer, and distributor of sports betting, social, casino, and lottery products. With offices in US and China he specializes in operating land based, mobile, and online sportsbooks as well as developing new and innovative gaming content and convenience betting platforms. Widely recognized as one of America’s leading bookies, his expertise includes lottery, AWP, slot machines, table games, sweepstakes, systems, and race & sports betting (both digital and live). An Asian-marketing expert, he has built worldwide relationships and has spent a great deal of time in Asia, Macau, Manila, Canada, UK, South America, Mexico, and many other regulated gaming regions. Other team members are called up as needed for specific projects.