BUSINESS SERVICES
• Koin, a digital payments solution provider for gaming, lifestyle and entertainment, has announced that Beth Carpenter will join the company as chief revenue officer, where she will lead enterprise growth and strategic partnerships as Koin enters its next phase of expansion.
Carpenter, a banking, casino gaming and fintech industry leader with more than 30 years of experience, will focus on accelerating revenue as the innovative payment solution brand continues its growth while prioritizing integrity and first-class service for Koin’s clients and partners.
She joins Koin from JPMorgan Chase, where she served as executive director and head of global sales for the casino gaming industry. In that role, Carpenter established a new commercial division focused on delivering payment and treasury solutions to the global gaming industry and broadened her perspective on the payments landscape beyond gaming.
Prior to that, she spent nearly two decades in senior leadership roles at Global Payments Gaming Services. In all, her extensive career tenure has given her a unique in-depth knowledge of industry needs and how operators can modernize payments without compromising the integrity and compliance required in regulated gaming.
“Beth is the kind of leader you bring in when you’re ready to scale with focus and speed,” said Koin President Gary Larkin. “As operators modernize how guests fund and spend across the property, Koin is positioned to deliver a better experience with smarter operations behind it. Beth’s deep expertise in gaming payments and enterprise partnerships will help us accelerate that momentum.”
Carpenter will be based in the Koin headquarters office in Las Vegas.
Koin is an advanced entertainment and lifestyle payment solution specifically designed to meet the demands of the highly regulated retail and online gaming markets. Founded in 2021 by Gary Ellis and Gary Larkin, Koin is guided by a talented leadership team with extensive experience in global gaming and payments.
As a long-term partner of Euronet Worldwide, Inc., Koin leverages the resources of one of the world’s leading providers of advanced payment technologies. Koin offers clients a complete, fully integrated payment ecosystem that delivers unprecedented cost efficiencies while providing end users with seamless, fully portable digital solutions to pay, play, or buy anywhere, anytime. For more information, visit koinpayments.com.
• Advanced Consulting Solutions Group, a leading fire protection engineering and life safety consultancy, announced the appointment of James Taylor as CEO. Taylor is a co-founder of the firm, which has grown to six offices across four states while serving clients worldwide, with its headquarters in Nevada.
In 2020, Taylor co-founded ACS Group during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He navigated unprecedented challenges while establishing the firm’s foundation. Under his leadership, ACS has grown into a trusted, multi-market consultancy recognized for deep code knowledge, collaborative problem solving and work within highly technical industries.
Taylor’s career spans high-risk and complex projects nationwide, with a diverse portfolio across casinos, hospitality, health care, government sectors, industrial, manufacturing and electric vehicles. He also brings global experience, having led the commissioning team for MGM Cotai in Macau, China. His technical expertise and leadership have been instrumental in delivering innovative and performance-based design solutions for some of the most demanding environments in the industry.
ACS Group, LLC is a fire protection engineering and life safety consulting firm that provides tailored, code-compliant solutions to help mitigate risk in the built environment. The firm supports projects across a wide range of industries and stages, from early planning through completion. Headquartered in Las Vegas, ACS Group has offices in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, Reno and Salt Lake City and works with owners, architects, engineers and contractors to help deliver safer, more secure projects. For more information about ACS Group visit advancedconsultingsolutions.com.
LAW
• Fennemore, one of the fastest-growing Am Law 200 firms in the country, is strengthening its Nevada presence with the addition of attorney Krisanne Cunningham as a director based in Las Vegas, effective Jan. 31.
Cunningham’s arrival marks a strategic investment in the firm’s continued growth in Nevada, a state increasingly recognized for its business-friendly legal environment that helps attract sophisticated transactional work.
Licensed to practice in Nevada, Virginia, the District of Columbia and Georgia, Cunningham advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, business law, corporate governance, LLCs, and joint ventures, including high-value transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. She serves as chair of the tax section and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the State of Nevada Bar.
“Krisanne brings a level of transactional insight that directly benefits clients navigating high-stakes deals,” said James Goodnow, CEO of Fennemore. “As Nevada continues to attract sophisticated corporate activity, her experience and leadership strengthen our ability to deliver practical, forward-looking solutions at a critical moment for our clients.”
For more than 140 years, Am Law 200 law firm Fennemore has been blazing a trail of legal entrepreneurship. For more information, visit FennemoreLaw.com.
• Eglet Law announced that Robert T. Eglet, founding partner and one of the nation’s foremost civil trial attorneys, has been honored, for the second time, as Trial Lawyer of the Year by The National Trial Lawyers at the organization’s prestigious Trial Lawyers Summit.
This achievement distinguishes Eglet as one of only two lawyers in the history of the award to ever receive it twice.
“Being recognized again as Trial Lawyer of the Year is both humbling and deeply meaningful,” Eglet said. “This honor reflects not only personal commitment, but the collective dedication of every attorney and staff member at Eglet Law, who strives to achieve justice for our clients every day.”
The National Trial Lawyers is an invitation-only professional organization representing the top trial attorneys in the United States. Membership and recognition are extended only to lawyers who have demonstrated superior qualifications, courtroom success, leadership and peer reputation — judged through a rigorous multi-phase selection process.
The Trial Lawyer of the Year award is one of the nation’s most coveted honors for plaintiff trial lawyers, reserved for those who have achieved extraordinary results and made a significant impact on the practice of civil litigation.
The Trial Lawyers Summit brings together elite trial advocates from across the country for advanced education, critical discussions on trial strategy and networking opportunities. The Summit is widely recognized as a leading forum for mastering litigation skills, ethical advocacy and legal innovation. Eglet has been honored with numerous other national recognitions and memberships.
Eglet Law is a nationally recognized trial law firm based in Las Vegas, committed to representing individuals and families affected by catastrophic injury, wrongful death, product liability, insurance bad faith and other serious civil injustices. The firm’s trial-first ethos and deep courtroom experience have resulted in historic recoveries and justice for clients across the country.
NONPROFIT
• SafeNest, Nevada’s largest and most comprehensive nonprofit dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence, named Caylye Nordling and Michael Holden to its board of directors.
— Nordling serves as an attorney in Snell & Wilmer’s corporate and securities group and has bar admissions in Nevada and New York. The native Las Vegan focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance advice.
Nordling, whose juris doctor is from the University of Texas, Austin, and whose bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, has long advocated for safe communities. She often works pro bono through the children’s advocacy centers; community-based, multidisciplinary, nonprofit organizations improving civic response to child abuse; and the Innocence Project, a nonprofit group fighting wrongful convictions.
Through Snell & Wilmer’s Attorney Development Committee, Nordling mentors junior associates. Through the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Get Outdoors Nevada and the Senior Law Program, she serves her Las Vegas Valley community.
— Holden, meanwhile, is a financial adviser Edward Jones|Krenos Wealth Management in Las Vegas. He manages stock portfolios and consulting on pensions for individuals and small businesses.
Holden is also a Summerlin’s Rotary Club of Summerlin member and will become the group’s president in July. With Rotary, Holden, who has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has worked to improve Las Vegas youth literacy (pushing for book vending machines at schools serving low-income children) and fight local hunger.
Tracing roots back to 1977, SafeNest is focused on ending domestic and sexual violence through collaboration, innovative strategy, and client centered program delivery. What sets SafeNest apart is the commitment to treating the entire continuum of violence from prevention to protection to empowerment. Our core, confidential services include emergency shelter, 24/7 crisis hotline, counseling, advocacy and prevention education. SafeNest is the only nonprofit in the valley to provide resources for perpetrators to address the cycle of abuse at its root. For more information, visit safenest.org. For immediate help and support, call, or text the 24/7 domestic violence hotline at 702-646-4981.
