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Gaming & Hospitality Newsletter: Volume 12, Number 4
Changes to Nevada Gaming Law by the 2019 State Legislature by Jennifer Gaynor, Greg Gemignani, Jeff Silver, and Kate Lowenhar-Fisher Now that the 2019 Nevada legislative session has come and gone we get a chance to reflect on the changes made to gaming law in Nevada. This article updates the mid-session review we posted in March 2019.
Gaming & Hospitality Legal News: Volume 12, Number 3
Gaming Advertising Fines and Bans: How might recent increases in restrictions on gaming advertisements across the globe impact gaming advertising in North America? by Jennifer Gaynor, Jeff Silver, Kevin Weber, Greg Gemignani and Kate Lowenhar-Fisher Recent months have seen a noticeable uptick in news about gaming advertising bans and restrictions across the globe.
Gaming & Hospitality Legal News: Volume 12, Number 3
Gaming Advertising Fines and Bans: How might recent increases in restrictions on gaming advertisements across the globe impact gaming advertising in North America? by Jennifer Gaynor, Jeff Silver, Kevin Weber, Greg Gemignani and Kate Lowenhar-Fisher Recent months have seen a noticeable uptick in news about gaming advertising bans and restrictions across the globe.
Paul Tufano Is in the Dignity Business at AmeriHealth Caritas
Paul Tufano brings a unique perspective to the complexity of healthcare. It comes from his incredibly varied career, which has included leadership roles in law, government, and now healthcare.
Why Natasha Milatovich Is Doing Away With Work/Life Balance
Faith, focus, and fuel. These are the three elements that help make any plan come together, according to Natasha Milatovich. The regional vice president of human performance for the Southern California Region of Adventist Health West is quick to say that a commitment to performance excellence is also crucial for success. “Together, these are the elements that leaders of change initiatives thirst for and that are the most effective at achieving organizational renewal,” she says.
To Implement D&I Strategy Is to Advocate for Change
Hispanic Executive: How did you make diversity and inclusion a priority at Accenture? Nellie Borrero: It was my personal goal when I started as a recruiter. To make it my full-time focus, I developed a business case based on the need for hiring, retaining, and developing the very best talent. Senior leadership understood and supported that strategy from the very beginning. Even so, my biggest challenge was learning patience. I wanted things to move faster.
Christine Bastian on Transforming HR at Cisco
Christine Bastian, SVP of Human Resources for Engineering, Cisco (Photo by Varsha Kanwar) When Christine Bastian reflects on her career journey, she recognizes that one of her most important and most satisfying roles is being an advocate for employees. At an early age, Bastian learned the value of helping others have a voice and impact, and she has carried that experience and passion throughout her career.
Sprinklr Puts an Emphasis on People and Culture
Since it was founded in 2009 by CEO Ragy Thomas, Sprinklr has become a leading social suite for the enterprise. In addition to enabling client companies to engage with their customers across all social media channels and to optimize customers’ experiences, Sprinklr grew to have a presence in ten countries and to work with some of the world’s most iconic brands. Today Sprinklr’s social media management platform reaches 3 billion consumers across 350 million sources and 26 social channels.
At Gwinnett Medical Center, Nancy Stockslager Can Spot a Top Performer
When it came time to complete the sunsetting of Gwinnett Medical Center (GMC)’s existing EMR systems and to prepare for implementing its replacement, the hospital’s information technology and services department had only weeks to put together a team of more than fifty experts. That meant identifying specialists that could act as liaisons between the technology and the clinical practices that would need to be translated into the new enterprise-wide system.
Luis Patiño on Informing and Empowering
Luis Patiño, President and General Manager, Univision Los Angeles Photo by Alex Delgado Photography Univision was founded in 1955 in San Antonio, Texas, by Emilio Nicolas and his father-in-law.
Roel Campos Has a Very Personal American Dream
In a recent interview, Roel Campos was not happy. The latest news cycle contained another round of political rhetoric describing Latino immigrants as criminals “infesting” the country. Campos pointed out that there are about 47 million American Latino citizens today. The vast majority work hard and are law abiding. Importantly, Latinos spend about $2 trillion a year and greatly boost the economy. “This rhetoric demonizes all Latinos and confuses the public,” he says.
How Robert Brooks Helps Erlanger Health System Remain Indispensable
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Erlanger Health System (EHS) to the communities it serves in Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Serving about fifty counties across 50,000 square miles, it provides the only Level I Trauma Center, comprehensive stroke center, high-risk birthing unit, and Level IV neonatal intensive care unit in the region.
Operation Excellence: Jeffrey Medeiros Optimizes Client Service at USAA Bank
Customer service and experience make or break organizations in the business world today. When Jeffrey Medeiros arrived at USAA Bank in 2016, he quickly realized it was a company that went above and beyond to deliver service excellence. That’s when he accepted the financial services innovator’s unique mission: to facilitate the financial security of its members, associates, and their families through highly competitive financial products and services.
Rebecca Roby Moves from the Whiteboard to the Real World
Rebecca Roby joined Hard Rock International with the goal to expand her horizons as a lawyer. She brought extensive intellectual property expertise from her previous position at Red Bull, but she expected Hard Rock’s lean structure to help her develop a broader range of experience by allowing her to engage in all aspects of the business.
Stephanie Driggers’s Many Acts of Support In and Out of UPS
UPS has had a strong commitment to volunteer service and charitable giving for decades. That dedication is evident in the 111-year-old company’s culture and its foundation (see the sidebar). It also extends to UPS’s more than 454,000 employees worldwide. In 2017, in total, they volunteered 2.9 million hours, and they’re nearly 80 percent of the way toward fulfilling the company’s pledge to contribute 20 million service hours by 2020. The members of the company’s legal department are no exception.
How Tim Hocking Shrank Symcor's Footprint for Bigger Benefits
Business and production environments are always evolving. The most successful companies stay closely attuned to the ongoing changes and develop creative strategies to respond accordingly. Such was recently the case for Symcor, one of Canada’s leading providers of business-processing and communications-management services for major financial, insurance, retail, and telecommunications companies.
Why Angela Oakley Stresses the Importance of Financial Education
Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD) is one of seventeen community mental health centers in Colorado, but it stands out as a leader in offering innovative, holistic programs for mental health and overall well-being. Its Dahlia Campus for Health & Well-Being offers therapy and mental well-being programs, including a four-acre garden and farm space, that’s open to the community.
Lisa Odom's Emphasis on Local Relationships Pays off For Cox HealthPlans
Lisa Odom began working in the healthcare industry shortly after she graduated from college. Looking back, she says she had very little awareness of the complexities of healthcare or the requirements and challenges it presents. She learned quickly, though, as one of two accountants handling compensation of the clinical staff at the hospital where she was hired.
How Matt Gibbs and EnvisionRx Align Benefits for Health Plans
As much as professionals and consumers alike complain about the state of modern health insurance, they probably don’t remember how it operated during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was a time when most health plans offered minimal, if any, coverage for prescription medications. Consumers and providers also take for granted that they can have prescriptions filled at a local pharmacy almost immediately.
Dennis Calderon and the Proactive Path
Once most people find a comfortable job, they tend to follow its path in a fairly passive and reactive fashion. Without much long-term planning, they work their way up the ranks or find a position with another company in the same industry. Dennis Calderon, on the other hand, approaches his career with a different strategy. He believes you should handle your career like a business, constantly refining and reinforcing your brand along the way.
How Kate Willmunder Drives Positive Change at Apria Healthcare
Apria Healthcare’s home delivery of medical and respiratory equipment fills an important role in enabling its patients to improve their quality of life. As with most areas of healthcare, however, ongoing industry changes were impacting company operations. Business volume increased at the same time that health insurance providers were demanding shorter time frames for deliveries.
How Sylvia Tsengouras Helps Fisher Clinical Services' Clients Thrive
The complexity of clinical studies is mind-boggling. In addition to the scientific foundation of any particular hypothesis and the technical planning that underpins each inquiry, there are countless external factors that can impact their success. Uncertainty surrounding geopolitical issues such as Brexit, for example, can impact factors like the accessibility and distribution methods of study medicines. Changes in associated import/export taxes can render established budgets obsolete.
How Brenton McKinney Took Charge of Security at Medecision
As a leading provider of population health management technology and services, Medecision maintains and manages data for roughly fifty million lives. Protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of those healthcare records falls to Brenton McKinney, the organization’s vice president of security. McKinney joined the company to help take Medecision’s security to the next level by pursuing a HITRUST certification.
How Frank Venuto Nurtures Nebraska Medicine's Network of Care Providers
A successful human resources practice in healthcare requires a delicate balance within several different important areas of any organization’s operations. That has certainly been the case for Frank Venuto, chief human capital officer at Nebraska Medicine (NM). The first is recruitment—a challenging priority for healthcare across the country. In addition to identifying qualified talent, Venuto also has to be careful to accommodate the priorities of other partners and constituencies.
McGraw-Hill Education's David Stafford Believes Comfort is Overrated
Late on New Year’s Eve in 1987, David Stafford toiled away in a conference room as part of a team that was working on a multibillion dollar corporate acquisition. He was busy tackling the never-ending due-diligence and transactional chores faced by every first-year law firm associate. It was a far cry from the career he had envisioned that would allow him to leverage his critical-thinking skills to develop creative and strategic analysis and provide counsel in a commercial setting.
Mark Mosby Is on the Inside Looking Out as Fallon Health’s Legal Advisor
Fallon Health has a long history of distinguishing itself in the healthcare marketplace. The nonprofit was founded as a provider-payer partnership in 1977—decades before risk-sharing between providers and health plans became a mainstream practice. Fallon went on to become the first HMO in the country to offer a Medicare plan and the first in Massachusetts to offer a limited network.
Drilling into Automation
When most people picture drilling for oil, they typically conjure images of roughnecks risking life and limb, wrestling heavy chains and enormous pieces of equipment. Even though scenes like those are often scripted dramatically into movies and television shows, Chris Magnuson, vice president of research and development at Nabors—one of the world’s largest oil and gas drilling contractors—says that the industry has moved well beyond those manual operations that originated more than 150 years ago.
Bob Bolton Embraces Design-Build at San Diego International Airport
The San Diego County Regional Airport Authority entered a new era in 2005 when it began planning San Diego International Airport’s (SAN) Green Build expansion of Terminal 2—its first design-build construction project. The Airport Authority Board approved the transition from a traditional bid-design-build approach in an effort to avoid that approach’s common pitfalls: cost and schedule overruns, delay claims, and litigation.
Bernadette Melnyk's Mission to Create the Healthiest University in the World
In 2017, the National Academy of Medicine launched the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being—a national initiative to raise awareness about the importance of clinicians’ well-being and the prevalence of increasing depression, compassion fatigue, and suicide among healthcare providers. At that point, The Ohio State University (OSU) was already well ahead of the wellness curve.
Lori Custer Goes Beyond Compliance and Privacy at Harbin Clinic
Lori Custer has years of experience supervising coding and billing, managing regulatory and compliance issues, and handling risk management for medical practices of all sizes. However, as chief compliance and privacy officer at Harbin Clinic, her dedication and loyalty go well beyond simple professionalism and commitment. That’s because two months after joining the Harbin team, she was diagnosed with breast cancer after undergoing a routine mammogram as part of the company’s wellness program.
Marnie Wilking's Rock-Solid Approach to Security at Orion Health
Industries evolve and mature in waves that are often driven by the threats they face. Soon after establishing an online presence, financial services companies were hit with security breaches and accompanying lawsuits, so the industry quickly learned how to protect clients’ money as well as their personal information. Healthcare has begun to learn those same lessons only relatively recently.
Why Jonathan Wright Has Branded Himself as “Mr. Ethics” for QPharma
Jonathan Wright always planned on becoming a healthcare professional—just like his parents and fourteen physicians on his father’s side over several generations, including Buffalo, New York’s first black pediatrician. His plans changed, however, when he discovered a greater affinity for the law. But that didn’t stop Wright from pursuing a career in the healthcare industry in a different capacity.
How Cathlynn Nigh Found Her Niche in Information Security
When Cathlynn Nigh worked in compliance and internal audit at TransUnion, she probably didn’t realize she was on a path that would lead directly to founding BEYOND LLC, a HITRUST CSF assessor organization that also provides readiness, validation, and remediation services. While on that path, she worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield, where she was on the internal control and evaluation team that handled HITRUST prep as well as testing work for the organization to obtain HITRUST certification.
Charles Wilkinson Prepares More and Risks Less for Ashland
When Charles Wilkinson joined Ashland Global Holdings in 2007 (when it was known as Ashland Inc.), 55 percent of the company’s revenues were from North America, and it was in the process of transforming from an oil-and-chemicals company into a specialty-chemicals company.
Lessons from M&A Expert Javier Enrile
When Javier Enrile first came to the United States from Spain, it was supposed to be a six-month stay to study English. But when he took an opportunity to audit business classes, which he says blew his mind, he convinced his parents to let him enroll at the University of Texas–Austin as a full-time math and economics major. It wasn’t until his junior year in an mergers and acquisitions class, however, that Enrile truly found his place.
New York Life’s Ariel Rodriguez Mercado is Inspired by Challenges
Ariel Rodriguez Mercado, a partner at New York Life Insurance Company (NYL), has always been motivated by challenges. Whether on the court during his sixteen years as a professional volleyball player in Puerto Rico or working as a mediator for the Puerto Rico Department of Education, he was helping develop successful strategies and solutions. It wasn’t until eight years ago, though, that he discovered his calling.
Jose Nicot on Thinking Globally and Acting Locally
As one of Israel’s oldest and largest companies, Teva Pharmaceuticals maintains a tremendous sense of corporate responsibility to provide high quality, affordable medicines that help patients live better lives. It is also committed to balancing business strategies with its global partners and the communities in which it operates. Following through on those promises is a key part of Jose Nicot’s duties as global category lead for the company’s legal and real estate procurement organization.
Luis Arjona on Principles to Succeed By
Luis Arjona, EVP, Nielsen(Photo by Eric Schmidt) As an executive vice president at Nielsen, with extensive market and commercial knowledge both in Latin America and North America, Luis Arjona brings more than twenty years of experience growing high-performing businesses. Prior to Nielsen, he led eBay Brazil, having led its growth from the ground up. Arjona also brings consulting experience from Bain & Company Brazil, McKinsey, and Booz Allen & Hamilton.
Volvo Trucks' Dave Wall on the Benefits of Being Embedded
Dave Wall, Global Legal Counsel, Volvo When Volvo Trucks senior management first directed its legal department to begin participating in management meetings, Dave Wall, global legal counsel, was skeptical.
Accounting for the Cruise Life: Gisella Mazzilli
Ever since she started saving her money in high school to visit Paris and learn French, Gisella Mazzilli has been passionate about traveling and seeing the world. So, it was a dream come true when she was able to join the world’s largest leisure travel company, Carnival Corporation & plc.
Christiane De Carvalho on Targeting the World
Christiane De Carvalho has learned a tremendous amount over the course of her career. She has also leveraged that knowledge to continue developing as a global business professional and to create a series of successful endeavors, each one building on the accomplishments of the last.
Dwight McBee Focuses on the Details at Temple University Health System
Dwight McBee began his career as an ICU nurse at Paul Kimball Medical Center (now Monmouth Medical Center South) before moving to AtlantiCare, where he worked his way up to leading the office of customer experience. Now, as chief experience officer at Temple University Health System, he has extensive expertise to draw from in his professional life. However, it is a deeply personal experience that has had the greatest impact on his approach to helping manage patients’ healthcare journeys.
Gaming & Hospitality Legal News: Volume 11, Number 6
Integrity, integrity, integrity. The integrity of the game is a top concern of regulators and the college and professional sports leagues as legalized sports wagering expands across the United States. But what steps can regulators take to ensure that the "fix" is not in on games being wagered upon? In theory and in practice, legalization of sports wagering provides a better framework to track and trace aberrations in betting patterns that may indicate game fixing.
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How Venturing Outside His Comfort Zone Paid Off for Jonathon Schwebach
After nearly two years with Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (REG)—a leading provider of clean, lower carbon intensity products and services—Jonathon Schwebach unexpectedly found himself with a major decision to make: accept a promotion to become the company’s treasurer, or continue on the more familiar path as head of the tax department.
Jennifer Salinas on Building a New Career Path
Jennifer Salinas has had many milestones she wanted to achieve in her legal career—among them, developing a certain amount of business and becoming a go-to first chair IP litigation partner. Over the course of a twenty-year career in private practice, she reached all the goals on her list. However, she always had the sense that she would end up transitioning to an in-house counsel position.
Mark Holden and Jenny Kim Fight for Criminal Justice Reform for Koch
Mark Holden, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Koch Industries In 1995, Koch Industries’ Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery discovered that an inaccurate quarterly report had been submitted to the Texas state environmental regulator. Employees disclosed the error, demonstrated efforts to bring the refinery back into compliance, and agreed to publicly report the details of an investigation into the incident.
How Trisha Gillum Strikes the Perfect Balance at Kettering Health Network
As director of supply chain management and purchasing for Kettering Health Network, Trisha Gillum is responsible for sourcing everything from toilet paper to orthopedic implants across 8 hospitals and 175 physician practices. In every case, she and her team act as consultants that address the network’s many different challenges.
Michael Camuñez's Private Diplomacy
Michael C. Camuñez grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, about thirty miles north of the US-Mexico border crossing in El Paso, Texas. He remembers a time and place where most everyone was bilingual, there was minimal border security, and shopping trips to and meals in Juárez, Mexico, were common. He saw Hispanics in positions of prominence: his great-grandfather was sheriff of Doña Ana County, and his grandfather was a successful farmer.
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