gaming industry
Hospitality Software Frontrunner Agilysys Receives Three Awards for Mobile Food & Beverage (F&B) Ordering and Payment Self-Service, Interope
Agilysys | October 11, 2022
-- Top gaming organizations recognize Agilysys for amplifying Return on Experience (ROE) through guest conveniences, technology interconnectivity and gaming industry expertise -- ALPHARETTA, GA — OCT. 11, 2022 — Agilysys, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of hospitality software solutions that deliver High Return Hospitality, has won three awards from the gaming industry for its partnership, its technology leadership, and for the positive business impact of its intuitive mobile F&B order-and-pay solution. The solution – branded IG OnDemand – makes it fast and easy for hospitality and gaming guests to use a pe...
CEO Pay in Gaming: Founders vs Corporate Executives...
Keith Kefgen, New York | November 6, 2017
By Keith Kefgen Besides technology, the gaming industry has one of the largest percentages of entrepreneurs running their respective companies. Larger than life personalities such as Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson actually cast a shadow well beyond gaming. But that is changing as entrepreneurs are slowly being replace by corporate execs such as Keith Smith at Boyd, Jim Murren at MGM, Tim Wilmott at Penn and Mark Frissora at Caesars. It is interesting to see how CEO compensation has changed as this process has unfolded. Generally speaking, the entrepreneurs took more of the compensation in equity, while corporate executive appear to have...
Corporate Governance Takes a Front Seat...
Keith Kefgen | January 19, 2016
By: Keith Kefgen Cybersecurity. Say-on-Pay. Short-term vs Long-Term. Shareholder Activism. All of these issues are at the forefront for board directors these days. Change in corporate governance has reached a dizzying pace. How is the gaming industry reacting and/or setting the standard of change in governance? It appears that a number of gaming companies are creating best practices, while others need to update their standards in a big way. Casino Journal and AETHOS Consulting Group have be examining corporate governing practices for more than a decade. This year's study includes 26 companies that have significant business concerns in t...
