Chairman of the Board since our inception in March 2002 and Executive Chairman since April 1, 2005. Mr. Berman served as our Chief Executive Officer from February 25, 2004 until April 1, 2005. Since January 1999, Mr. Berman has served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lakes Entertainment, Inc. ("Lakes"), a publicly-held company that develops and manages Indian-owned casinos. Lakes owns a majority of our common stock through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lakes Poker Tour, LLC. From November 1999 until May 2000, Mr. Berman served as President of Lakes. Mr. Berman served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grand Casinos, Inc. from October 1991 through December 1998. Mr. Berman served as Chief Executive Officer of Rainforest Cafe, Inc. from February 1993 until December 2000. Lyle Berman is the father of Bradley Berman, who serves as a director of the Company and is President of King Show Games, LLC.
Steven Lipscomb
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Chief Executive Officer since April 1, 2005 and our President and Founder since our inception in March 2002. Mr. Lipscomb previously served as Chief Executive Officer of our predecessor company, World Poker Tour, LLC, from March 2002 until February 24, 2004. Mr. Lipscomb is the creator and Executive Producer of the World Poker Tour television series. Prior to forming World Poker Tour, LLC in March 2002, Mr. Lipscomb was an independent producer through his company, Lipscomb Entertainment, producing and directing award-winning television shows and films.
Michael Beindorff
Elected 2004
Mr. Beindorff serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Exclusive Resorts, a company that sells interests in a luxury residence club. Most recently, he served as President of GreenTree Group, a marketing, branding and management consulting firm based in Denver, Colorado. Prior to founding GreenTree in 2002, he spent three years at PlanetRx.com as President and later as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman.
Bradley Berman
Elected 2004
Mr. Berman is the President of King Show Games, LLC. a company he founded in 1998. King Show Games leverages the trends in the video slot machine arena. In addition to being President of King Show Games, since 2004 he has been actively involved with Lakes Entertainment in his current position of Gaming Product Specialist. Bradley served as Vice President of Gaming with Lakes Entertainment from 1998 until 2004 when he decided to reduce his role in order to devote more time to King Show Games. Bradley Berman is the son of Lyle Berman, our Executive Chairman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lakes.
Joseph S. Carson Jr.
Elected 2004
Mr. Carson served as Chief Executive Officer of Bunim-Murray Productions, a television production company, from November 2004 until March 2007. From 1995 until he joined Bunim-Murray in November 2001, Mr. Carson oversaw the production and finance functions at Twentieth Television, a division of Fox Studios. Previously, Mr. Carson held a number of financial positions with Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Mr. Cope served as our Interim Chief Financial Officer from March 2004 until June 2004. Mr. Cope has served as President of Lakes since May 2003 and as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and a director of Lakes since December 1998. Mr. Cope served as Chief Financial Officer of Grand Casinos, Inc. from January 1994 through December 1998, and served as Executive Vice President of Grand Casinos, Inc. from April 1997 through December 1998. Mr. Cope also served as a director of Grand Casinos, Inc. from February 1998 through December 1998.
Ray M. Moberg
Elected 2004
After 33 years, Mr. Moberg retired from Ernst & Young in 2003, where he served as the managing partner of Ernst & Young's Reno, Nevada office from 1987 until his retirement. Mr. Moberg also serves as a director of Lakes.
Mr. Padnick became a founding partner of Castle Rock Entertainment in 1987, where he led that company's television production and development activities until January 2003. Mr. Padnick continues to provide services to Castle Rock Entertainment in connection with production of DVD products based on that company's television concepts.
For the past 24 years, Ms. Rogers has worked professionally as an actor in numerous feature films and television shows. In addition, Ms. Rogers co-owns and manages Millbrook Farm Productions, a film and television production company that she co-founded nine years ago. For the last four years, Ms. Rogers has been the co-owner of Clear Messaging, LLC, an answering service based in Newton, New Jersey.
WPT Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded company on Nasdaq
under the symbol "WPTE" and is a majority owned subsidiary of
Lakes Entertainment, Inc., a publicly held company.
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