Everi Appoints Harper Ko, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer – General Counsel
January 16 2018 - 11:30AM
Everi Holdings Inc. (NYSE:EVRI) (“Everi” or the “Company”), the
casino gaming industry’s single source provider of gaming products
and payments solutions announced today the appointment of Harper Ko
as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer – General Counsel,
effective immediately.
Ms. Ko, who has direct responsibility for all of
Everi’s legal and regulatory compliance affairs, brings to the
Company extensive expertise in the casino gaming industry with over
17 years of corporate legal and regulatory compliance experience on
behalf of gaming equipment suppliers and casino operators.
She most recently served as Deputy General Counsel, Gaming for
Scientific Games Corporation, a $2.9 billion gaming and lottery
equipment and services supplier. During her time in this
position from November 2014 – December 2017, Ms. Ko led a team of
attorneys and related administrative staff with a wide
responsibility for all commercial revenue matters within its global
Gaming and Interactive business units. In her role as Deputy
General Counsel, Gaming, Ms. Ko served as a strategic advisor to
their Gaming unit executive management team for all commercial
matters including material commercial transactions, customer and
third-party matters, and regulatory compliance and litigation
matters. She joined Scientific Games following its
acquisition of Bally Gaming, Inc. in November 2014 where she served
as Assistant General Counsel beginning in November 2007.
Prior to that Ms. Ko was a Contract Attorney with Harrah’s
Operating Company and Associate Corporate Counsel for Aristocrat
Technologies, Inc. Ms. Ko began her career in the gaming
industry as Staff Counsel for WMS Gaming Inc. from May 2000 to
August 2004.
Michael Rumbolz, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Everi, commented, “Harper brings to our executive team a
deep knowledge and expertise of the gaming industry’s unique
regulatory and compliance issues as well as a significant track
record of success in helping to foster commercial relationships
with customers and vendors. Harper possesses the ideal skill
set to help Everi shape strategies to address the industry’s
complex legal and regulatory environment. We are pleased to
have attracted a general counsel with Harper’s level of expertise,
experience and accomplishments and we look forward to the benefit
of her counsel and contributions.”
Harper Ko commented on her appointment, “I was
attracted to Everi and the opportunities for continued growth in
its Games and Payments segments as well as its commitment to
integrity in its business practices. I look forward to
working with Mike and the entire Everi team as we continue to
execute on our strategic priorities.”
Ms. Ko holds a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of
Law, and a B.S. in Psychology as a Natural Science from the
University of Michigan. She is a Board Member at Project 150,
a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization committed to helping
over 2,500 students in 45 high schools across Las Vegas and a
member of the Executive Leadership Committee for the Go Red for
Women, American Heart Association. Ms. Ko previously served
as an Officer (co-General Counsel, Vice President) of the
Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers, and was honored with
the Rising Star Award by Great Women in Gaming.
About Everi
Everi is dedicated to providing video and mechanical reel gaming
content and technology solutions, integrated gaming payments
solutions and compliance and efficiency software to casino
operators. Everi Games provides: (a) comprehensive content,
electronic gaming units and systems for Native American and
commercial casinos, including both Wide-Area Progressive systems
and the award winning TournEvent® slot tournament solution; and (b)
the central determinant system for the video lottery terminals
installed in the State of New York. Everi Payments provides: (a)
access to cash at gaming facilities via Automated Teller Machine
cash withdrawals, credit card cash access transactions, point of
sale debit card transactions, and check verification and warranty
services; (b) fully integrated gaming industry kiosks that provide
cash access and related services; (c) products and services that
improve credit decision making, automate cashier operations and
enhance patron marketing activities for gaming establishments; (d)
compliance, audit and data solutions; and (e) online payment
processing solutions for gaming operators in states that offer
intrastate, Internet-based gaming and lottery activities.
Contacts
Investor Relations Richard Land, James Leahy JCIR 212-835-8500 or
evri@jcir.com
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