Gary M. Green

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| name = Gary M. Green

| image =File:Gary Green newspaper.jpg

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| birth_date = 20th century

| birth_place = Hamlet, North Carolina, USA

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| occupation = {{flatlist|

Television host
gaming consultant
writer

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| notable_works = "Osceola's Revenge", Marketing Donald Trump, Gambling Man

| known_for = The Trump Organization, Casino Rescue TV show

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Gary M. Green (born 20th century) is a musician, author, television host, gaming consultant and entrepreneur.{{cite journal| journal= Casino City Times | title=Oklahoma Tribe Bets on Casino| date=January 31, 2006}}{{cite journal| journal= Casino Journal | date=September 2005| volume=18| issue=9| title=Magic Man| author= Connor, Matt}}{{cite journal| journal= Denver Business Journal | title=Former Trump Hotels Exec Acquires Black Hawk's Gold Mine Casino| date=February 7, 2011}}

He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization{{cite journal| journal= Indian Gaming | date=February 2009| title=Slot Machine Vendor Hires Casino Personality Gary Green}} and appeared on the television reality game show The Apprentice.{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2656421/?ref_=fn_al_nm_3| title=Gary Green| website= Internet Movie Database}} He was also on the 2004 television special New Year's Eve with Carson Daly. Green was executive vice president of Synergy Gaming, and the public face of the company. He was the spokesman for four years, until 2017 for Ortiz Gaming.{{cite journal| journal= Bingo Life Magazine| title=Entertainment Guaranteed| date=Spring 2015}}

In 2016 it was announced that he would host a television series called "Casino Rescue".

{{Cite web|url=https://news.worldcasinodirectory.com/new-casino-makeover-show-to-be-hosted-by-industry-phenom-gary-green-34800|title=New casino makeover show to be hosted by industry veteran Gary Green|date=September 22, 2016}}

Career

=Music=

File:Gary Green Charlotte NC.jpg

Green recorded three folk-music albums from 1977 to 1982 with Folkways Records, which worked with other folk artists including Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.{{cite web| url=http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/?query=gary+green| title=Gary Green| publisher= Smithsonian Folkways | access-date=June 5, 2015}}{{cite web| url=http://bonusrepublic.com/tag/pulitzer-prize/| title=Robert De Niro Could be the Gambling Man| date=January 4, 2014| publisher=Bonus Republic| access-date=June 5, 2015}}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Folkways was later acquired by the Smithsonian Institution as part of the "Smithsonian Folkways" exhibition.

Green also composed music for the crime drama film Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981). The film, starring Paul Newman and Ed Asner, is about life in New York City's South Bronx from the point of view of a police officer.

=Media=

In the 1970s, Green was a journalist for The Gaston Gazette, a newspaper in Gastonia, North Carolina, which was later purchased by Halifax Media Group.{{cite journal| journal= The Gaston Gazette | date=November 2, 1975| title=Two Found Hacked to Death with an Ax| author= Green, Gary}} He earned two Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing.

In 2010, he wrote Marketing Donald Trump, a guide explaining how Green marketed Trump which can be applied to other marketing applications. In 2012, he wrote Gambling Man, which details Green's life as a modern-day casino boss through personal anecdotes.{{cite book| publisher= Penny Arcades | title=Gambling Man| author= Green, Gary| date=September 2012| isbn=978-0-615-26697-8}}

=Other activities=

In the early 1990s, Green purchased part of a Russian circus. He established it as a Euro Circus attraction at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.{{cite journal| journal= Great Falls Tribune | date=January 8, 2007| author= Ogden, Karen | title=Casino Manager Followed Colorful Path to Browning}}{{cite journal| journal= The Sun News| date=September 16, 1995| title=Circus of Russians Will Return in 1996}} After he sold the circus, he joined Smith-Gardner, a Florida catalog software company. At Smith-Gardner, Green aided in development of software to take orders online when the company changed their focus from telephone and mail orders.

=Casinos=

File:Gary Green and Donald Trump.jpg

By 1979, Green was working with casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey.{{cite journal| journal= Indian Gaming Business | date=March 2005| title= The Showman | author=Conner, Matt}}{{cite journal| journal= Indian Country Today | title=Glacier Peaks Casino Is a Success in Rural Montana| date=November 3, 2006| author= McNee, Jack}}{{cite journal| journal= Oklahoma Today | date=May 2006| title=Games of Chance| author= Love, Chad}} He patented a casino-management system based on customer relationships.{{cite news| work = Yahoo! Finance | title=Technology Guru Patents Casino Management System}}

He was vice president of marketing for The Trump Organization and the Trump 29 Casino near Palm Springs, California.

Green was named president of Absentee Shawnee Gaming Enterprises in July 2004. He was general manager of the Thunderbird Wild Wild West Casino in Norman, Oklahoma and oversaw construction of another casino in Oklahoma City.{{cite journal| journal= Casino City Times | date=September 27, 2004| title=Casino Entrepreneur Rises in Ranks}}

In 2005, Green co-founded Las Vegas-based casino management and development company Southern Dutch Gaming with Frank Haas,{{cite journal| journal= Indian Gaming Business | title=Change at the Table| author= Hodl, James J. | date=Winter 2006}} who he worked with at Trump 29.

Green was general manager of Glacier Peaks Casino in Browning, Montana, in 2006,{{cite journal| journal= Native American Casino | title=Montana's First Vegas-Style Casino| author= Snyder, Christine | date=December 2006}}{{cite journal| journal= Daily Inter Lake | title=Taking a Gamble on Browning| author= Alberson, Kristi}}{{cite journal| journal= North American Casino | date=November 2006| title=Montana Casino Operations: A New Growth Area for Table Games| author= Taucer, Vic}} and was hired by the Ottawa Tribe to oversee their new Four Winds Casino that same year and consulted for an Ottawa casino in Miami, Florida.

Synergy Gaming hired Green in 2009 as its executive vice president and official public face of the company. He purchased the former Gold Mine Casino in 2011. Green served for four years as spokesman{{cite web| author = Press release | url=http://www.innovategaming.com/c47324| title=Ortiz Gaming Introduced Cabinet Innovations at G2E| date=October 20, 2014| publisher= Innovate Gaming | access-date=June 5, 2015}}{{cite web| url=http://ggbmagazine.com/issue/vol-13-no-11-november-2014/article/amazing-o| title=Amazing 'O'| date=October 24, 2014| work=Global Gaming Business Magazine| access-date=June 5, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and senior consultant to the president for Ortiz Gaming.{{cite web| author = Press release | url=http://www.soloazar.com/international/noticia/12431-Ortiz-Gaming-to-Raise-Expectation-at-the-National-Indian-Gaming-Association-Tradeshow-and-Conference-in-San-Diego| title=Ortiz Gaming to Raise Expectation at the National Indian Gaming Association Tradeshow and Conference in San Diego| date=March 25, 2015| publisher= Soloazar International | access-date=June 5, 2015}}