Jeffrey Compton, Publisher

Directly Related Experience:

• Assisted or directly designed Players Clubs and related promotions for small and large casinos, located in Las Vegas, Northern Nevada, California, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, the US Virgin Islands and Canada
• Columnist: Casino Player, Strictly Slots, Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Advisor
• Contributor: Midwest Gaming and Travel, Global Gaming Business
• Guest Lecturer: Community College of Southern Nevada, University of Nevada Las Vegas, University of Nevada Reno
• Author: The Las Vegas Advisor Guide to Slot Clubs

Education:

• Master of Business Degree, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
• Executive Development Program, University of Nevada Reno

Awards:

• Outstanding Young Men of America (1988)
• American Choral Award-Chorus America (1989)

Areas of Expertise:

• Players Club design and evaluation, including cash and comp reward systems, increasing player reward options, expansion of electronic tracking systems among related properties
• Host policy design and evaluation
• Slot and video poker promotion design and evaluation including bonus points, giveaways and bounce-back cash mailings
• Shopping service of both clients’ and competitors’ players club
• High limit slot play - design of salon and players rewards

Organizations:

• Trustee: Chorus America
• Trustee: Cauliflower Alley Club

Ken Adams, Editor of The Adams Daily Report

Education And Training:

• Douglas High School, 1960
• United States Army, Special Forces, 1960-63
• Dale Carnegie, Nevada Leadership Institute, 1986-87
• Situation Leadership, Blanchard Training and Development, 1988
• Hotel/Gaming Professional Development, UNR, 1989-90
• Leadership Reno, Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce, 1991
• Oral History Seminar, 1991
• Paralegal Studies, UNR, 1993-94
• Paralegal Studies, UNR, 1996
• 15 national conferences on gaming

Publications:

• Adams Report (a monthly newsletter), 1997-2011
• Adams Daily Report (a daily electronic newsletter, 2002-2011
• Adams Analysis(a monthly opinion piece) 2002-2011
• Always Bet on the Butcher, (Warren Nelson) 1994
• Luck is the Residue of Design,(Dwayne Kling) 2001
• Nevada Gaming Almanac 1991-2002
• Nevada Gaming Directory 1993-1996
• Playing The Cards That Are Dealt, (Mead Dixon) 1992
• War Stories, 1995

Boards and Committees:

• American Bingo Corp. PLC, Board of Directors 1999
• Dale Carnegie Scholarship Committee: 1989-97
• Downtown Improvement Association, Communication Committee: 1993-97
• Downtown Improvement Association, Executive Committee: 1993-2009
• Festival Reno Committee: 1984-86
• Friends of Washoe County Library Board of Directors 1997-2001
• Full House Resorts Board of Directors 2007-2011
• Gaming Management Advisory Board: 1989-97
• Leadership Reno Alumni Board: 1995-97
• Leadership Reno Youth Advisory Board: 1994-96
• Nevada Gaming Almanac Board of Directors: 1991-2002
• Northern Nevada Regional Track Fund Raising Committee: 1990-92
• Reno Gazette-Journal Business Advisory Board: 2000-02
• Silver State Striders Board of Directors: 1992-93
• Vision Gaming Board of Directors 2001-2006

Awards and Recognition:

• Sterling Who’s Who, 1994/95, Executive Directory
• Marquis Who’s’ Who in the West, 1996-2011
• Marquis Who’s Who in America, 1997-2011
• Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 1997-2011

Jeff Simpson, Editor of The Flash

Professional experience

• Freelance casino business reporter and editor, 2009-present
• Columnist, ratevegas.com, 2010-11
• Las Vegas Sun Business Editor, 2004-09
• Las Vegas Sun Gaming Columnist, 2005-09
• In Business Las Vegas Executive Editor, 2004-09
• Las Vegas Review-Journal casino industry reporter and columnist, 2000-04
• Reporter and researcher, Gulf Coast Business Review 1998-99

Media appearances

• More than 100 appearances as a panelist on "Nevada Week in Review," Vegas PBS
• More than a dozen appearances on KNPR radio "State of Nevada"
• Guest on CNN, C-SPAN, BBC World Service, Las Vegas One, "Nevada Newsmakers," and several other radio and television news programs

Conference panels

• Panelist and/or speaker at several Global Gaming Expos and journalism conferences

Education

• Undergraduate: Wittenberg University, University of Maryland, New College of Florida (History)
Graduate: University of Florida (American History)

Military Education

• Defense Language Institute (Polish)
• Primary Leadership Development Course (U.S. Army)

Professional, military and academic awards/honors

• In Business Las Vegas, edited Nevada Press Association's best business weekly four times
• In Business Las Vegas, NPA awards for gaming column, headline writing
• Las Vegas Sun, four-time NPA best business coverage, largest circulation category
• Army Commendation Medal (2)
• Army Achievement Medal (2)
• Good Conduct Medal (2)
• Overseas Service Medal
• Expert marksman
• Army Honorable Discharge
• Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities semifinalist
• New College Dart Scholarship
• University of Florida full graduate fellowship

Justin Martin, Executive Editor

Justin grew up in East Hampton, New York, a beautiful and absurd place that is both better and worse than you may have heard. His at-times peripatetic existence has seen him call Seattle, Chicago, Columbus, and Tucson home; in the spaces between, he lived in East Hampton, wrote some screenplays, and co-managed BookHampton. He now lives in a small village in Queens, where he writes, cooks, makes music, and does a little programming. He holds degrees in literature and history from Purchase College and is rather fond of birds.

Norma Foote, Editor Emeritus

In 2002, Jeffrey Compton contacted Norma Foote to help teach members of his consulting company staff with their writing skills. For the next five Norma assumed full editing responsibilities for all CDC Reports – including the creation of Playback, a 100% customer input publication. Norma taught English at Brecksville High School (Ohio) for 30 years (one of her student being Jeffrey Compton), serving as English Department chair for 25 of those years. Among her many honors were Presidential Scholars Awards, Commended Teacher from the State of Ohio, and Teacher of the Year from the Brecksville School system.

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