Recent gaming industry promotions and appointments

Monday, Sept. 24, 2001 | 9:30 a.m.

Theresa Bounds and Jerry Sullivan are account executives at the Venetian showroom.

George Lysak is director of sales at the Ritz-Carlton under development at Lake Las Vegas.

Jimmy Tipton is director of player development, Bill Hartwell is casino controller and Kenneth Bowen is director of facilities at the Palms Casino Resort that opens later this year.

Charles Bufalino is an account executive at casino supplier ONICS.

At Station Casinos Inc., Susan Ewald is vice president of hotel operations for Palace Station, Robert Finch is vice president and general manager of Barley's Casino & Brewing Co., Brian Skagen is assistant general manager at Sunset Station hotel-casino and Barry Mitchell is senior executive casino host at the Fiesta hotel-casino. At the Green Valley Ranch Station Casino opening later this year, Gene Kalashian is director of casino operations and Veronica Kistner is director of hotel sales and marketing.

Juan De Las Casa is casino host and Michael Berg is sales manager at Terrible's Hotel & Casino.

New officers for the Las Vegas Hotel Managers Association are Tom Wilkinson of the Gold Strike as president, Nancy Taylor of Sam's Town as vice president, Sheldon Sanders of the La Quinta as secretary-treasurer and Caroline Chiappe of the La Quinta as parliamentarian.

At International Game Technology, Rich Pennington is senior vice president of product management, Jerry Young is vice president of lottery products & government relations and Rick Rowe is vice president of IGT Gaming Systems Engineering.

Laus Abdo is chief financial officer at Innovative Gaming Corporation of America.

Bill Nader is president of Alliance Gaming's United Coin Machine Co.

Patrick Cavanaugh is senior vice president and chief financial officer at Acres Gaming.

Margaret Eardley is chief financial officer at ILX Resorts.