Pat McHugh: Scientific Games is a rapidly growing company in a continuously evolving industry. Over the last two years, we’ve hired hundreds of new employees to keep pace with our growth, including some executive-level positions to support our customers as we scale the business. Our people are what makes us unique, and I am grateful every day for the support our team gives our customers. We have a lot of employees with 20 and 30 years of experience, and several have been planning their retirements. This allowed us to make minor realignments to improve service by giving new opportunities to other experienced leaders within our organization, and a few newly hired executives joined our team. We’ve been deliberate in promoting strong leaders from within and bringing in new talent to increase bench strength and transfer knowledge. I’m incredibly grateful for several of our leaders who agreed to extend retirements to see us through our transition seamlessly. As a result, we’re stronger than ever to support our customers into the future. Mike Cardell’s appointment to Senior VPof Americas Systems is anexample of our continued investments in people and products to strengthen our systems and software delivery. Mike is an accomplished business technology leader with more than 17 years of experience. Coming to us from global fintech and payments company, Fiserv, where he most recently served as VP and General Manager of Next Gen Solutions: Signature and Cloud Solutions. As the industry’s fastest-growing systems provider, Mike is a perfect fit as we evolve our systems business beyond transaction processing into strategic technology-based products and services. Mike has a proven track record in innovating technology-based products and services, including enterprise and consumer-facing applications, transaction processing platforms, large-scale IT conversions, strategic growth and impactful results. We have also made some realignments to increase our focus around the two different aspects of marketing: marketing Scientific Games’ products to the industry and supporting our customers in how they market their products to consumers. This included aligning our analytics and lottery portfolio marketing support directing into our customer-facing teams. An exciting part of this was Beth Bresnahan’s promotion to Chief Communications and Brand Officer and member of our Executive Leadership Team. Beth has served as our VP of Strategic Communications since March 2022. This promotion came as no surprise to those who know and have worked with Beth. Her strategic vision, extensive experience in brand communications and deep knowledge of the lottery industry have earned her the respect and support of her colleagues. Before joining Scientific Games, she spent nearly 10 years in leadership roles at the Massachusetts Lottery, including serving as its executive director, as well as heading the District of Columbia’s Office of Lottery & Gaming. Beth has integrated our internal and external communications, advertising, media, customer proposals and industry trade support, creating a clear focus on Scientific Games’ message to the industry about our products and who we are today. We also just announced that Amy Steinman has been named Chief Human Resources Officer and a new member of our Executive Leadership Team. Before joining us, Amy had a 25-year career with Koch Industries serving as the organization's executive responsible for integrating enterprise software, overseeing organizational design, developing talent and building a values-based, collaborative global culture. She brings substantial knowledge spanning cultural development, change management, compliance, operations, HRIS systems, manufacturing, compensation, benefits and recruiting. The breadth of her knowledge will be instrumental in the ongoing success of our people, culture and business worldwide. And as I shared, a number of our business leaders were promoted within their groups and their teams were realigned to better serve our customers. So, we are very excited about what’s happening across the organization. Q: Scientific Games recently announced several executive promotions and new leaders joining the company. What do these changes mean for the company’s future?
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