Pinnacle party names vincent zahn clamp boss of financial as well as …

LAS VEGAS, Oct. twenty, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.( NYSE: PNK) voiced now the appointment of Vincent Zahn, as Vice President of Monetary as well as Financier Family, in effect immediately. Mr. Zahn will inform without delay to Carlos Ruisanchez, Chief Monetary Officer of Pinnacle Entertainment.

As Vice President of Monetary as well as Financier Family, Mr. Zahn will support in corporate monetary counts, together with financier family, book, collateral marketplace exchange as well as vital development. He will additionally be obliged for the slip as well as government of the Company’s shareholder communications efforts, together with the ongoing overdo to institutional investors, analysts, as well as the monetary media to offer enhance recognition of Pinnacle Entertainment inside of the investment community. Mr. Zahn brings to Pinnacle over 7 years of monetary believe in the open collateral markets with the concentration over the final 5 years upon the gaming, camp as well as liberality industries as partial of the investigate group which was ranked third in Institutional Financier magazine’s All-America Investigate Group check in both 2010 as well as 2011.

Commenting upon the appointment, Carlos Ruisanchez pronounced, “Vince is the preferred claimant to offer as Pinnacle’s indicate of hit with the investment village as he brings the clever bargain of the Company’s stream operations as well as enlargement opportunities, in-depth believe of the made during home as well as general gaming attention as well as the operation of attention as well as Wall Street family grown during his reign as the part of of the single of the tip ranked investigate teams covering the gaming sector. We have been assured which Vince’s sensitive viewpoint of Pinnacle as well as the gaming attention, as well as his laxity with the needs of attention analysts as well as institutional investors will be profitable to the monetary as well as financier family teams.”

Vince Zahn combined, “Having analyzed Pinnacle’s existent operations as well as enlargement as well as enlargement opportunities, we have been tender with the gait of the Company’s execution opposite the organization. we am really gratified to stick upon Anthony Sanfilippo, Carlos Ruisanchez as well as the complete Pinnacle group to enhance upon their swell in formulating latest, tolerable worth for shareholders as well as assisting expostulate the subsequent leg of enlargement for the company.”

Prior to fasten Pinnacle Entertainment, Mr. Zahn served as an equity researcher during Bank of America/Merrill Lynch given 2006 not long ago covering the gaming attention with lead responsibilities upon the company’s coverage of the gaming record space as well as join forces with researcher responsibilities upon the core gaming user space. From 2004-2006, Mr. Zahn was an join forces with researcher during Prudential Equity Group covering the mechanism use as well as IT consulting industry. Prior to his career as an equity researcher, Mr. Zahn hold positions as the monetary researcher in American General Group’s Global Energy multiplication as well as as the Senior Business Researcher during CrossBorder Solutions, the Latest York formed general corporate taxation consulting firm.  He binds the grade in Monetary as well as Economics from Fordham University as well as is the CFA Charterholder.

About Pinnacle Entertainment

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. owns as well as operates 7 casinos, located in Louisiana, Missouri, Indiana as well as Nevada, as well as the racetrack in Ohio. Pinnacle is additionally building L’Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge. In Aug 2011, Pinnacle acquired the 26% tenure interest in Asian Coast Growth( Canada) Ltd.( ACDL), an general growth as well as genuine estate association now building Vietnam’s initial large-scale integrated resort.

SOURCE Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc.