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The Index Committee maintains oversight
over the ion process of companies to be included in the S-Network Global
Gaming IndexSM.
The Index Committee convenes quarterly to nominate companies from around the
world for inclusion in WAGR and to review and approve additions, deletions and
changes. The Members of the Index Committee are:
Richard Wells, President, Wells Gaming Research. Richard Wells is founder and President of Wells Gaming Research, a
Nevada Corporation that provides Casino Player Count Service™, a market share
tracking service, to over 160 casinos in Nevada,
Mississippi, Louisiana,
New Mexico, and California.
Wells Gaming Research
also performs a wide range of consulting and gaming research assignments
including casino market studies, financial feasibility studies, financial
projections, due diligence, litigation support, legislative issue support and
expert witness service for the gaming industry.
Richard Wells has
fifteen years experience as a senior executive in the casino-hotel industry
with Holiday Inns, Harrah's, and Bally's.
He has also held positions in senior management, strategic and
operational planning, and financial analysis for a large regional bank and a
major international oil company.
Mike Keenan,
Managing Member, Stowe Partners, LLC. Mike Keenan is a securities consultant in
private practice with 17 years experience in the financial field. His
expertise lies in the fundamental and technical analysis of market securities,
along with portfolio construction and risk management. In addition to
private practice, he has served as a regulator at the State and local levels in
California. Mr. Keenan founded Stowe Partners, LLC in
2006 to provide investment consulting to the money management
industry. He earned a B.Sc. in Geology and an MPA from the
California State University System.
Joseph LaCorte, CFA, Managing Member, S-Network Global Indexes,
LLC. Mr. LaCorte is presently a Managing Member of S-Network, a New York based
consulting firm specializing in the development of indexes, quantitative asset
management products and structured products, including exchange traded funds
and over-the-counter derivatives. In the past five years, he served as a
Managing Director of UBS, with responsibility for that firm’s global exchange
traded fund (ETF) initiative. Prior to that, Mr. LaCorte served as managing
member of S-Network LLC, where he maintained responsibility for key clients,
including the American Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse and State Street Bank
& Trust. Mr. LaCorte was also a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank,
responsible for that bank’s US
index arbitrage and portfolio trading businesses. He worked as part of the
management teams at both Nomura and Kidder Peabody in the similar capacities.
While at each of these firms, their index arbitrage businesses were the largest
in the United States.
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