Gary M. Green
| Gary M. Green | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 20th century |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Gaming consultant, writer |
| Employer | Ortiz Gaming |
| Known for | The Trump Organization |
| Notable work | Marketing Donald Trump, Gambling Man |
Gary M. Green (born 20th century) is a musician, author, gaming consultant and entrepreneur.[1][2][3]
He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization[3][4] and appeared on the television reality game show The Apprentice.[5] He was also on the 2004 television special New Year's Eve with Carson Daly.[5] Green was executive vice president of Synergy Gaming, and the public face of the company.[4] He is the spokesman for Ortiz Gaming.[6]
Career
Music
Green recorded three folk-music albums from 1977 to 1982 with Folkways Records, which worked with other folk artists including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.[3][7][8] Folkways was later acquired by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the "Smithsonian Folkways" exhibition.[7]
Green also composed music for the crime drama film Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981).[5] The film, starring Paul Newman and Ed Asner, is about life in New York City's South Bronx from the point of view of a police officer.
Media
In the 1970s, Green was a journalist for the The Gaston Gazette, a newspaper in Gastonia, North Carolina, which was later purchased by Halifax Media Group.[3][9] He earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing.[8]
In 2010, he wrote Marketing Donald Trump, a guide explaining how Green marketed Trump which can be applied to other marketing applications. In 2012, he wrote Gambling Man, which details Green's life as a modern-day casino boss through personal anecdotes.[3][4][10]
Other activities
In the early 1990s, Green purchased part of a Russian circus. He established it as a Euro Circus attraction at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[11][12] After he sold the circus, he joined Smith-Gardner, a Florida catalog software company. At Smith-Gardner, Green aided in development of software to take orders online when the company changed their focus from telephone and mail orders.[11]
Casinos
By 1979, Green was working with casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[13][14][15] He patented a casino-management system based on customer relationships.[16]
He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization and the Trump 29 Casino near Palm Springs, California.[2][3][4]
Green was named president of Absentee Shawnee Gaming Enterprises in July 2004.[2][13] He was general manager of the Thunderbird Wild Wild West Casino in Norman, Oklahoma[15] and oversaw construction of another casino in Oklahoma City.[17]
In 2005, Green co-founded Las Vegas-based casino management and development company Southern Dutch Gaming with Frank Haas,[2][18] who he worked with at Trump 29.[17]
Green was general manager of Glacier Peaks Casino in Browning, Montana, in 2006,[14][19][20][21] and was hired by the Ottawa Tribe to oversee their new Four Winds Casino that same year[1] and consulted for an Ottawa casino in Miami, Florida.[15]
Synergy Gaming hired Green in 2009 as its executive vice president and official public face of the company.[4] He purchased the former Gold Mine Casino in 2011.[3] Green serves as spokesman[22][23] and senior consultant to the president for Ortiz Gaming.[6][24]
Discography
- Gary Green, Vol. 1: These Six Strings (1977)
- Gary Green, Vol. 2: Allegory (1977)
- Gary Green, Vol. 3: Still at Large (1982)
Bibliography
- Marketing Donald Trump (2010, Penny Arcades)
- Gambling Man (2012, Penny Arcades)
See also
References
- 1 2 "Oklahoma Tribe Bets on Casino". Casino City Times. January 31, 2006.
- 1 2 3 4 Connor, Matt (September 2005). "Magic Man". Casino Journal. 18 (9).
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Former Trump Hotels Exec Acquires Black Hawk's Gold Mine Casino". Denver Business Journal. February 7, 2011.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Slot Machine Vendor Hires Casino Personality Gary Green". Indian Gaming. February 2009.
- 1 2 3 "Gary Green". Internet Movie Database.
- 1 2 "Entertainment Guaranteed". Bingo Life Magazine. Spring 2015.
- 1 2 "Gary Green". Smithsonian Folkways. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- 1 2 "Robert De Niro Could be the Gambling Man". Bonus Republic. January 4, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ↑ Green, Gary (November 2, 1975). "Two Found Hacked to Death with an Ax". The Gaston Gazette.
- ↑ Green, Gary (September 2012). Gambling Man. Penny Arcades. ISBN 978-0-615-26697-8.
- 1 2 Ogden, Karen (January 8, 2007). "Casino Manager Followed Colorful Path to Browning". Great Falls Tribute.
- ↑ "Circus of Russians Will Return in 1996". The Sun News. September 16, 1995.
- 1 2 Conner, Matt (March 2005). "The Showman". Indian Gaming Business.
- 1 2 McNee, Jack (November 3, 2006). "Glacier Peaks Casino Is a Success in Rural Montana". Indian Country Today.
- 1 2 3 Love, Chad (May 2006). "Games of Chance". Oklahoma Today.
- ↑ "Technology Guru Patents Casino Management System". Yahoo! Finance.
- 1 2 "Casino Entrepreneur Rises in Ranks". Casino City Times. September 27, 2004.
- ↑ Hodl, James J. (Winter 2006). "Change at the Table". Indian Gaming Business.
- ↑ Snyder, Christine (December 2006). "Montana's First Vegas-Style Casino". Native American Casino.
- ↑ Alberson, Kristi. "Taking a Gamble on Browning". Daily Inter Lake.
- ↑ Taucer, Vic (November 2006). "Montana Casino Operations: A New Growth Area for Table Games". North American Casino.
- ↑ Press release (October 20, 2014). "Ortiz Gaming Introduced Cabinet Innovations at G2E". Innovate Gaming. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Amazing 'O'". Global Gaming Business Magazine. October 24, 2014. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
- ↑ Press release (March 25, 2015). "Ortiz Gaming to Raise Expectation at the National Indian Gaming Association Tradeshow and Conference in San Diego". Soloazar International. Retrieved June 5, 2015.