SHFL chief exec Isaacs leaves following Bally takeover
Just two members of SHFL Entertainment's senior leadership team remain as CEO, CFO and CSO move on
SHFL Entertainment chief executive Gavin Isaacs has left the business along with its strategy and finance chiefs following the $1.3bn takeover by Bally Technologies.
Isaacs (pictured), who has led the US-based gaming supplier for more than two and half years, left last month and is now under a non-compete clause for the next 12 months.
He is followed out of the door by Linster Fox, the company’s executive vice-president and CFO since 2009, and chief strategy officer Louis Castle.
Castle joined SFHL, formerly Shuffle Master, in October 2011 from social games developer Zynga and is now executive director of his own business, Castle Production Services.
Long-serving SHFL chief product officer Roger Snow, known internally as ‘the Wizard’, moves over to Bally’s leadership team with continued responsibility for table games.
Katie Lever, executive vice-president and general counsel at SHFL since May 2011, will continue her duties as a Bally employee.
Bally agreed a deal to acquire SHFL in July this year, when CEO Ramesh Srinivasan described the move as “transformational” and would help the business provide the “most comprehensive product portfolio” in the world.
Australian-born Isaacs served as Bally COO for almost five years earlier on in his career, and has overseen SHFL’s first moves into online during his time there.