{"id":10095,"date":"2012-11-14T17:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:14:12","slug":"smooth-transition-at-bally-trumpalypse-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/smooth-transition-at-bally-trumpalypse-in-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Smooth transition at Bally; Trumpalypse in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8696\" title=\"Haddrill\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Haddrill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Haddrill.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Haddrill-119x150.jpg 119w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Haddrill-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Late-breaking stories usually bode ill but it&#8217;s nothing of the sort at <strong>Bally Technologies<\/strong>, where a transfer of power was announced during the waning hours of the day. CEO <strong>Richard Haddrill<\/strong> (<em>left<\/em>) steps aside and up, moving to chairmanship of the board at year&#8217;s end. President\/COO <strong>Ramesh Srinivasan<\/strong> will become the new CEO. The latter is a seven-year Bally veteran, having previously overseen its systems division. Pre-Bally, he worked with Haddrill at software firm <strong>Manhattan Associates<\/strong>, so it&#8217;s fair to say he&#8217;s been groomed for the top spot at BYI. <strong>J.P. Morgan<\/strong> analyst <strong>Joseph Greff<\/strong> sees nothing at all untoward in this bit of musical chairs, due to &#8220;recent momentum across [Bally&#8217;s] three operating segments,&#8221; adding that the company is &#8220;going smoothly.&#8221; Nor will Haddrill be a back-seat chairman: Greff reports his brief will encompass &#8220;long-term strategic initiatives, international expansion and i-gaming.&#8221;\u00a0By contrast, <strong>Deutsche Bank<\/strong> analyst <strong>Carlo Santarelli<\/strong> found <!--more-->&#8220;the suddenness of this change &#8230; surprising,&#8221; even though &#8220;we did not believe Mr. Haddrill would be around for the long haul.&#8221; He forecast &#8220;investors would scramble to understand&#8221; the timing and rationale behind the move. He also noted glumly that management&#8217;s near-term earnings guidance &#8220;wasn&#8217;t exactly a resounding affirmation.&#8221; We&#8217;ll have to wait until the morning to know how <strong>Wall Street<\/strong> is taking the news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump is falling<\/strong>. Or at least the glass in his <strong>Toronto<\/strong> edifice complex is plummeting. Seems you don&#8217;t have to be a depositor to be victimized by The Donald&#8217;s castles in the sky. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/glass-falls-from-trump-tower-during-construction-work-1.1038445\" target=\"_blank\">Just driving past one can be hazardous to your health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late-breaking stories usually bode ill but it&#8217;s nothing of the sort at Bally Technologies, where a transfer of power was announced during the waning hours of the day. CEO Richard Haddrill (left) steps aside and up, moving to chairmanship of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/smooth-transition-at-bally-trumpalypse-in-toronto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,28,42,22,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}