2019 Customer Service Excellence Celebration – Dec. 3, 2019
The Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority hosted the annual Customer Service Excellence Celebration – a culmination of a full year’s worth of amazing recipients and it was their time to shine! The 2019 CSE Person of the Year award recipient is Adriana Perez of Suncoast Casino. Perez received this prestigious award after we received a letter from her supervisor detailing a unique event that took place during Adriana’s shift earlier this year. Click here to learn more!
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Featured President's Club Members
Ken Winans
Winans Investments- Capital Management
President & Founder
Kenneth Grant Winans is a top-ranked investment manager, a renowned author of four award-winning books and a philanthropist for education. Over 35 years, he has conducted landmark investment research and designed innovative investment strategies. He has documented “track records” as a market strategist and a portfolio manager. Winans also writes a column for Forbes.com. He started Winans Investments in 1992 and has received the highest “5 Star” performance rating given by global research firm, Morningstar ® for its three blended strategies for 3, 5, and 10-year timeframes.
Karim Kaissi
Intermountain Healthcare – Nevada Medical Group
Region COO and President
Karim joined Intermountain Healthcare in 2021 as the President of the Nevada Medical Group and is also Desert Region COO for Ambulatory Care. He has over 15 years of executive leadership in the healthcare industry in both the private and public sectors and for-profit and nonprofit entities. Karim has a track record of leading teams in established regional organizations and operating in a start-up environment and launching multiple new markets from the ground up. Karim’s diverse background and leadership are ideal for charting a market-differentiated growth path for the region.
Rob Scalise
Villiv
Owner/CEO
Rob Scalise is the CEO of Villiv. He has an Master’s of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis, specializing in Organizational Behavior Management and Behavior Systems Analysis and is currently finishing his MBA in Human Resources and Marketing at UNLV. He has helped small firms to large publicly traded companies reach their goals. As a licensed behavior analyst, he provides therapy to kids and families around the valley. Scalise’s passion is making positive changes and spreading goodwill through his work. He enjoys hiking with his wife and dogs and working with the people that make Vegas the fantastic city it is.
Bud Schawl
Kindred Healthcare
Market CEO
Bud has been in Healthcare since joining Scottsdale Healthcare in 2002. He has worked in varying levels of leadership within healthcare across the West. He Joined Kindred Healthcare in 2015 as CEO at their Albuquerque Hospital. He then relocated to Las Vegas as Kindred’s Market Chief Executive Officer in January of 2019. Prior to Healthcare, Bud spent 10 years in law enforcement, was an entrepreneur and then worked for the Franchisor overseeing the Rocky Mountain West. Bud was drawn to healthcare as way to fulfill his passion of helping people.
