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.
Lyle Berman
Chairman of the Board
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.
Thomas Flahie
Interim Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Flahie joins WPT Enterprises with over 25 years of diverse experience, skills and interests in all areas of finance and administration, with both public and private companies including eLabor, Inc. and Balance Bar Company. Mr. Flahie's most recent Chief Financial Officer role was for publicly traded Intermix Media, Inc. where he had responsibility for the leadership of finance, accounting and human resources. During his tenure there he was instrumental in refocusing the company on its core businesses, returning it to EBITDA profitability and building the website MySpace.com. Mr. Flahie began his career at Arthur Andersen in Los Angeles, and was an Accounting and Audit Partner in Los Angeles and at the firm's world wide headquarters in Chicago. He is a Certified Public Accountant and past Chairman of the internal control standards committee of the National Indian Gaming Association.
Adam Pliska
General Counsel and Secretary
Adam Pliska joined WPTE in 2003 and currently serves as the Company's General Counsel. Previously, Mr. Pliska served as the Vice-President of Legal and Business Affairs for a multi-media company headed by the futurist, Alvin Toffler and as an attorney at the firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Los Angeles. Mr. Pliska also worked as a television producer in connection with noted industry veteran Al Burton including work at Universal Television and Castle Rock Entertainment where he produced and develop numerous television properties. He is an alumnus of USC Film School and UC Berkeley's law school, Boalt Hall. Additionally, he has served at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (for the Hon. Alex Kozinski) and at the Governor's Office of Legal Affairs (Ca.).
Rohin Malhotra
Managing Director
Rohin Malhotra has been Managing Director since July 2008 and was Managing Director, Sales and Marketing (International) from October 2007 to July 2008. Mr. Malhotra worked for Fox Sports Enterprises as Managing Director of Boofel Productions from 2006 to October 2007 and as Party Gaming's Global Head of Programming/Marketing, as MTV Networks' Asia-Pacific Senior Director and as Optimedia/Publicis Media's Director of Research and Strategy prior to joining Fox Sports Enterprises. Mr. Malhotra worked for Fox Kids Europe from 2000 to 2004 and the Leo Burnett, Zenith Media and Carat media agencies prior to joining Fox Kids Europe.
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$1.10- 0.03
Nov 6, 2009
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