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Salat becomes President

Published: 03 March, 2008

Sebastian Salat has been promoted to the newly created position of President, WMS International. With more than 25 years of experience in the global gaming industry, Salat has established the presence of WMS in over 70 countries, built a strong and well-respected worldwide sales and service organization that is focused on taking care of WMS international customers’ needs, and significantly grown sales and profitability.

Today, WMS' International unit sales represent more than 30% of the total new unit shipments, and WMS is respected as one of the foremost slot machine companies in the world. In his new role, Salat will oversee WMS’ international business strategy, market development, operational execution, as well as sales and distribution. While maintaining his focus on enhancing WMS’ global presence in existing markets by growing and supporting customers’ needs, and continuing to increase global presence through the opening of appropriate new international markets, he will also direct the growth enabled by the additional strengths and capabilities provided by Orion Gaming and Systems in Progress (SiP) companies, WMS' two recent acquisitions. Barry Greenberg and the Orion Gaming organization and Helmut Steffenini and the SiP organization, will report to him, as well as the present international sales and service organization. In addition, Salat will pursue new international business opportunities to leverage the group’s innovative product development and state-of-the-art gaming technology.

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