Blake Sartini
| Blake L. Sartini | |
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| Chairman, President and CEO of Golden Entertainment, Inc. |
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| Born |
Blake L. Sartini January 16, 1959 , U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse(s) | Delise Sartini |
| Children | Blake Jr. Lorenzo Sandra |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Alma mater |
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Business Administration(BA) |
| Occupation | Gaming and Entertainment Entrepreneur |
Blake L. Sartini (born January 16, 1959) is an entrepreneur in the Nevada gaming and entertainment industry.
He is Chairman, President and CEO of Golden Entertainment, Inc., an owner and operator of distributed gaming, taverns and casinos based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was formed in 2015 by the merger of Golden Gaming (founded in 2001 by Blake Sartini) and Lakes Entertainment. The Golden Entertainment, Inc. owns and operates gaming properties across two divisions – distributed gaming and resort and casino operations. Golden Entertainment, Inc. operates more than 12,000 gaming devices and over 30 table games in Nevada, Maryland and Montana. The company owns four casino properties, over 50 taverns and operates approximately 980 distributed gaming locations in Nevada, Maryland and Montana.
Blake L. Sartini was born in Stockton, in the San Joaquin County of California. He is the son of Arthur Dennis Sartini and Sandra Louise Myers. He attended junior college in Stockton, and in 1964, when Blake was 5 years old, Arthur took a job as the assistant executive director of the Las Vegas Housing Authority.
Sartini attended Ed W. Clark High School, where he played football as a tight end and defensive end. He enrolled in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and in 1982 earned his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Sartini began his career as a craps dealer in a downtown Las Vegas hotel and casino. Following, he worked in various management and executive management positions with several gaming and entertainment companies. His career included working on the Las Vegas strip at the Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino and ultimately joining Station Casinos Inc.,where he held the position’s of Chief Operating Officer and Director. He was one of the four founding members when it became a public entity in May 1993. Under Sartini’s leadership the company grew from one property with 2,000 team members and $150 million in revenue to eight casinos with 12,000 team members and $850 million in revenue.
Throughout the 1990s Sartini served as president of the Station Casinos subsidiary Southwest Gaming Services, a slot route operator that he founded in 1985. In 2001, he acquired the company from Station Casinos and it became Golden Route Operations, a division of Golden Gaming, LLC.
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