Gary M. Green

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Gary M. Green
Gary Green newspaper.jpg
Born20th century
Hamlet, North Carolina, USA
Occupations
  • Television host
  • gaming consultant
  • writer
Known for The Trump Organization, Casino Rescue TV show
Notable work"Osceola's Revenge", Marketing Donald Trump, Gambling Man

Gary M. Green (born 20th century) is a musician, author, television host, gaming consultant and entrepreneur. [1] [2] [3]

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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 was the spokesman for four years, until 2017 for Ortiz Gaming. [6]

In 2016 it was announced that he would host a television series called "Casino Rescue". [7]

Career

Music

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Gary Green Charlotte NC

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] [8] [9] Folkways was later acquired by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the "Smithsonian Folkways" exhibition. [8]

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 Gaston Gazette , a newspaper in Gastonia, North Carolina, which was later purchased by Halifax Media Group. [3] [10] He earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing. [9]

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] [11]

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. [12] [13] 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. [12]

Casinos

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Gary Green and Donald Trump

By 1979, Green was working with casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. [14] [15] [16] He patented a casino-management system based on customer relationships. [17]

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] [14] He was general manager of the Thunderbird Wild Wild West Casino in Norman, Oklahoma [16] and oversaw construction of another casino in Oklahoma City. [18]

In 2005, Green co-founded Las Vegas-based casino management and development company Southern Dutch Gaming with Frank Haas, [2] [19] who he worked with at Trump 29. [18]

Green was general manager of Glacier Peaks Casino in Browning, Montana, in 2006, [15] [20] [21] [22] 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. [16]

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 served for four years as spokesman [23] [24] and senior consultant to the president for Ortiz Gaming. [6] [25]

Discography

Bibliography

See also

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