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New Boss at WMS: How About Gavin Isaacs?

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Tue 15 Apr 2014 at 01:28
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The latest from Las Vegas is that Gavin Isaacs is consulting for Ronald Perelman, the billionaire investor who controls WMS Industries parent Scientific Games, in what could be a prelude to his move into the top job at the third-largest slot-maker in the United States.

A new report from the Las Vegas Business Press places the highly respected Mr Isaacs near the center of a management shakeup at lottery giant SciGames, which bought WMS last year for US$1.5 billion. Long-time SciGames Chairman and CEO Lorne Weil was ousted a month after the merger closed in October. His replacement, David Kennedy, a director of the company and its chief administrative officer at one point, is a former CEO of US cosmetics conglomerate Revlon, a mainstay of Mr Perelman’s $14 billion fortune. Mr Kennedy is reported to be a confidante of the tycoon’s.

Mr Perelman is SciGames’ largest shareholder and owns 38% of Chicago-based WMS.

Mr Isaacs’ new role with Mr Perelman—which he confirmed with the Business Press—has observers wondering if Mr Kennedy “is keeping the seat warm for Isaacs,” writes Howard Stutz, who covers gaming for the Business Press and its owner, the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Mr Isaacs, formerly CEO of SHFL Entertainment, engineered SHFL’s $1.3 billion acquisition by Bally Technologies last year and has a non-compete clause that expires in November. He was Bally’s chief operating officer before joining SHFL. Prior to that, he headed US operations for Australia-based Aristocrat Technologies.

In the meantime, a number of WMS executives have shifted into positions at SciGames, among them CFO Scott Schweinfurth, who was named to the same job at the parent company in a move designed to smooth its “oftentimes strained relations” with Wall Street. That’s according to Stifel Nicolaus Capital Markets gaming analyst Steven Wieczynski.

New York-based Scientific Games, which provides systems and game terminals to government-run lotteries, bought WMS to expand into the casino business. WMS is the third-largest manufacturer in the US market behind International Game Technology and Bally. Analysts generally have applauded the acquisition,which is expected to yield $600 million in pre-tax earnings this year. At the same time, however, many in the investment community are “skeptical of the legacy team’s ability to achieve its $100 million deal-related cost-savings target and successfully integrate the two businesses”—this also is according to Mr Wieczynski—the “legacy team” meaning Weil-era SciGames, which has suffered from a history of “ineffectiveness in clearly articulating expectations to the Street and then operating the business against those expectations,” the analyst said.

But that could all be changing, he said. He told the Business Press he is now “more upbeat on the Scientific Games investment case, a feeling we expect to be shared by the investment community in the weeks and months ahead”.

 

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