Michael G Brady Micahel Brady is a staff writer for the World Casino Directory / World Gaming Alliance.
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Steve Hand Steve Hand has worked for 30 years in the gaming industry. In that time, Steve has worked in 19 countries and managed casinos in seven. The casinos are as varied as Kyrgyz Republic and Seychelles. He seems to be permanently on a jet plane and will have many stories of his travels to share in our coming editions. Steve can always be found at Scarab Casino Management.
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James Wrethman Another contributor who has worked around the world in executive positions and is a regular contributor to various International publications. A pioneer with Cherry Casinos when Eastern Europe opened up. You can see Jim in some of the regions casinos through his involvement as chairman of Solna Leisure AB, Gaming Management and Consulting.
Bernard Richter Lead consultant of World Casino Directory. Starting from single casino town information websites nearly 10 years ago, he is now the senior consultant of over 100 land based casino websites worldwide.
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Randy Steed After spending forty years traveling the world and working in such varied destinations as South East Asia, West Africa, Europe, the Caribbean basin and Nevada, Randy has returned to his home of Sarasota where he will now coordinate and host Casino Talk Radio; a streaming internet radio program that looks at the Casino Industry from an International perspective. Casino Talk Radio will debut this autumn.
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Mike Gore was VP of Operations at Genting Highlands when it was the world’s largest casino. Mike has worked with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, VP of Surveillance in the Bahamas and Executive VP of Golden Crown Casino in Cambodia. Recently with Genting Group he worked to win the IR casino license in Singapore. He has a Juris Doctor Degree from Rutgers School of Law and a MBA from University of Phoenix.
Colin Stewart After many years of casino and marketing management Colin has now launched his own company, Casino Marketing Design. You can find his first Scarab contribution, "Making things look pretty- the state of marketing in the UK" in the April 2007 edition of Casino Life Magazine.
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Mario Ingretolli Mario has been in the Casino business for over 35 years. After training and working in London he then spent many years in the famous Paradise Island Casino in the Bahamas, only leaving a place he loved for the lure of Monte Carlo Casinos where he spent 15 happy years. He spent 7 years in Kenya working in Nairobi and owned his own Casino in Diani Beach and now resides in Malta where he is a casino manager.
Alan Hughes With over 33 years in the gaming and bookmaking businesses Alan is a complete all-rounder. If Alan is not out of the country running junkets you will find him running his odds advisory service at www.calcodds.com (Betfair Place Market Specialists).
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Dave Cirillo Dave Cirillo of CirilloWorks, along with his brother Mark, founded PETisphere, a web site devoted to lifestyles for pets and their owners.
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Mike Somers Mike is a consultant to hotels and casinos in all major areas of operations through his Somers International network. With nearly 30 years of experience in the gaming Industry Mike has held executive positions in various jurisdictions around the world including the U.K., Suriname, Mauritius and Kazakhstan.
Steve Smyrk is a contributor who was here at the beginning of the Eastern European casino boom. Progressing from casino management to casino consultant in the fledgling industry Steve stayed the test of time and established one of the most successful training schools in Eastern Europe Gaudium Casino Training. With his experience and contacts in the region expect Steve to keep us up to date in this part of the world.
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David Smart David has worked in many countries around the world starting with London in the 70’s and moving on to the Bahamas followed by Foxwoods in the USA and then stints in executive positions with major cruise lines in the Caribbean and Asia. Back in Asia David set up an 88 table operation in Poipet and also has held employment in the internet gaming business which has seen him take on projects in Bulgaria, Spain, Costa Rica, and China.
Terry Poole Terry has a background in all areas of casino management and like most of our contributors has worked around the world. Look for news about poker tournaments and bridge from Terry who is a qualified bridge tournament director. Customers of
Bridge Overseas
will probably be seeing much more of him after his involvement in their last major tournament.
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JJ Woods JJ Woods founded and setup Atlantic Casino Consultants dealing with the Irish gaming market. He trained in London and has been involved in setting up and designing casinos over the last 25 years. JJ Woods can often be heard or seen on radio shows and television talking about the gaming industry he is passionate about.
Martin Chua Martin Chua is lucky enough to be on the ground in Macau and runs the very highly acclaimed MacauCasinoWorld.com. He also runs the most up-to-date blog and Newsletter regarding gaming in Macau.
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Antonia Stoian Antonia founded the first private casino training school in Romania – Vladydamas after years working in various countries and on cruise ships. Today, their students work all over the world and many companies in the gaming industry call on their services as trainers or for holding the table tests with the recruited candidates for dealer/inspector positions.
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Janos Kiraly Janos Kiraly got started in the casino business in 1990 and has worked in various casinos in Hungary and Turkey. Currently he is a HR manager and consultant in Hungary and at the moment runs a Human Resourcements company for casinos and helps in the training at Casinoaider. You may reach him here: hrkiraly@gmail.com
Zsolt Bunda Zsolt Bunda has experience in Hungarian casinos and got started in the gaming industry in 1996. He is the owner of Casinoaider Training School in Hungary. He founded Casinoaider in 2001 and his students are routinely hired for jobs in Hungarian casinos. Website: CasinoAider.uw.hu
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Glyn Thomas is editor of Casino Life magazine which is dedicated to providing lifestyle as well as casino-related features. Anyone can put together a magazine from press releases – making a readable magazine is an art. He has extensive experience in the casino industry and is well-known by both the manufacturers and casino managers throughout Europe. Also an avid petrol head, Glyn wrote 'Racing Ahead' - a competitors guide to motorsport.
Joe Ricci Joe has spent the last 30 years in casino management in various parts of the world and is now based in Italy. Joe is another one of our contributors who has also owned a casino. Joe will be sharing stories of his experiences around the world and we consider Joe our Africa expert after his long stints there.
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Mark Davison Shareholder in Scarab. Owner of Plantation Club Seychelles. Experience includes being a member of the board of directors of one of Thailand’s largest companies, hotel & casino project development, multi lingual capabilities and involvement in international hotel and casino promotions.
Frank Martin Frank is a director of Poker Consultants LLC has been involved in the set-up and directing of International Tournaments. Also called upon as an "expert witness" to give testimony on the subject of why poker should be legal.
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Rene Lindsen René Lindsen is from origin Dutch, worked 14 years for Holland Casino, opened 3 casinos in Switzerland, reorganised casinos in South America and has 20 years of international experience.
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