Inside Asian Gaming

January 2013 | INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 31 Asia, you’d be right. “Absolutely, absolutely,”Ms Cohen says.“We have pulled together as one team globally and identified our strengths and weaknesses, prioritized our product development for the short term and established our key interim goals. The focus and disciplines that Cath has brought to us is definitely helping us as a business, from the product portfolio that we currently have and whatever we develop in the future.” By late spring of 2012, TCS JOHNHUXLEY was revamping the Far East team with the appointment of a new Sales Director, Andrew Hanley, who was Ms Burns’ Sales Manager at Bally, based in Macau, and who’d served prior to that as Vice President of International Sales for Transact. This was followed by the opening of a new design and development facility under the auspices of TCS JOHNHUXLEY’s Europe division and strategically located near York University in England— an IT hub, home of the country’s Science City and its “single largest source of software developers,”according to Ms Cohen.“So we’ve got some of the most talented software developers to choose from,” she says.“We’ve got now a team of seven people that are going to be just purely developing system and games software, which is very exciting for us because, obviously, we own it, we’re in control of it.” In October, after a three-year hiatus, the company returned to G2E in Las Vegas in a burst of creativity aimed at broadening the audience for table games, a mission TCS JOHNHUXLEY has fulfilled Taking the helm—Cath Burns