Patrick J. Kamm

High energy executive with over 20+ yrs of global gaming experience from the provider side offering a unique background of organizational and delivery leadership across the Lottery, Video Lottery and Casino verticals. Comfortable presenting emerging ideas to internal audiences or leading difficult meetings with customers in times of production incidents.

• Executive leadership of the Product R&D Lifecycle, Customer Delivery and Global Services portfolio.
• Accountable to C-suite Gaming offices for delivering the product R&D roadmap and to our global customer base.
• Managed global P&L for multiple organizations and implemented strategies to achieve strategic long range operating targets.
• Extensive experience leading complex negotiations with vendors to achieve strategic cost objectives.
• Directed software and system engineering organization's complex product development lifecycles.
• Partnered with peer-level and C-suite within Product Management and Sales to develop roadmaps that align to market demand for new products enabling sales funnel.
• Provided portfolio-wide leadership in dynamic technology-driven environment with highly fluid priorities.
• Supported current and emerging programs through interactions with high-level customers, business partners and external vendors.
• Championed cross-business operational and workflow challenges through effective communication to break down political walls and long held cultural norms to improve overall efficiency across company.
• Through the application of automation tools leveraging low cost labor pools increased capacity, improved quality and lowered overall Direct Managed Costs (DMC) by $5M+ year over year.
• Overall accountability for Casino Systems R&D, Global Systems Delivery and Services, and company-wide Managed Services (or outsourcing).
• Lived and operated on all continents (except 1) and comfortable interfacing and representing the company in all conditions and at all levels.

Focused on branch and regional operational efficiency and represented the RI region on Y2K committee.

• Directed product flow and informed management of delays and challenges, as well as suggested resolutions.
• Managed daily operations, developed forward-thinking strategies to accomplish efficiency goals.

Small teams operations throughout former eastern bloc and Africa.
Variable senior leadership of tactical and humanitarian operations within real-world austere environments.

Combat veteran with multiple awards for leadership.