Executive Biographies

Lefkowitz has led the initiative to build deep and wide relationships throughout the Las Vegas tourism community. To date, VEGAS.com maintains relationships with nearly 77 hotels, more than 161 shows, 31 clubs and 24 tour companies.

VEGAS.com's websites now have 2.7 million visitors each month, up more than 9 times in just a few short years. The company itself has grown in that time from 26 employees to more than 400 today, who represent the company's growing footprint both online and throughout the city.

Along the way, Lefkowitz and his team have been instrumental in guiding VEGAS.com down a customer-centric path to success. Steps have included: creating a website with technology tools, infrastructure, staffing, and extensive marketing programs specifically geared toward the Vegas market, while implementing a rigorous expert-training program for the company and creating programs to monitor and continually improve customer satisfaction.

Lefkowitz also led the acquisition of Casino Travel & Tours in 2005, expanding VEGAS.com's retail and concierge locations to more than 30. VEGAS.com's box office ticketing solution and staff power everything from showrooms on the Strip to General Motors' The Drive attraction and the Hoover Dam.

Lefkowitz brought 25 years of visionary business leadership to the company, including executive roles at Home Shopping Network and EarthLink, where he was responsible for the relationships with eBay, Amazon, Disney, Sprint and scores of other internet stalwarts. Lefkowitz spent many years in the entertainment business working with NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, Universal, Paramount, Turner and many others.

Keast oversees and evaluates department budgets, creates and maintains corporate organization plans and works closely with executives to promote information flow within the organization.

When Keast joined the company in May 2006, he brought extensive experience in information technology, sales, marketing and operations with him. Keast was the President and Founder of VentureAxis, an international I.T. consulting firm with operations in Asia, Europe and North America. Prior to VentureAxis, Keast held C-level executive positions with PG&E Corporation, Asera, DHL Worldwide Express and Claris Corporation.

His department is responsible for providing extensive metrics and market research to the organization, and manages customer experience and merchandising. He also oversees the team responsible for producing VEGAS.com's extensive and award-winning content.

Allison was not only a member of VEGAS.com's original management staff, but he was the original member -- VEGAS.com employee No. 1. He previously worked as graphics editor and assistant managing editor of the Las Vegas Sun. He also worked as managing editor of the Sparks (Nev.) Tribune and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho.

His internet marketing team handles all of VEGAS.com’s extensive online marketing campaigns, including e-mail, online advertising, organic and paid search. Brown is also responsible for developing strategic relationships with major Internet destination sites including Google, AOL and many others.

Before joining VEGAS.com in 2003, Brown held roles as the Director of Business Development and the Director of Consumer Communications at EarthLink.

Bingham’s business development team is responsible for developing and strengthening those business relationships with all Vegas travel partners, including hotels, shows, nightclubs, tours and golf courses.

Bingham also oversees Casino Travel & Tours - which has retail locations throughout the city, a tour company and a transportation company -- and VEGAS.com's box office operations.

Bingham got her first taste of the business arena at the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper, advancing to the position of supervisor of classified advertising. Following a stint at kentucky.com she moved to Advance Internet, a start-up Internet media site for the three largest newspapers in Alabama, as advertising sales director. She joined VEGAS.com in January 2002.

When Painter joined VEGAS.com in 2004, he brought a bevy of project management leadership with him. He was a business development manager at a dot-com and held executive positions overseeing business systems and project management for several large government contractors. The core of his experience included nine years with the Mason Chamberlain Corp, working on the first automated ammunition complex built by the US Army, as well as seven years providing direct support to NASA. Immediately prior to joining VEGAS.com, he served as Director of the Project Management Office at the Bechtel Corporation, providing support to the National Nuclear Security Administration.

Coad brings to VEGAS.com a broad technology background of over 25 years of technology-related career experience. He was co-founder at several high-tech software and application service provider startups. He has extensive hands-on experience and has held senior executive-level positions within software development, service delivery and IT operations. He has provided IT services to some notable organizations such as Visa, BP, AMAT and AutoDesk.

Before joining VEGAS.com, Huang headed the HR department for Alert Communications, a multi-national business process outsourcing company. Prior to Alert Communications, Huang was at eHobbies, an online retailer, where he directed human resources and administration. During his tenure, eHobbies was named one of the "Top 10 Places to Work" by Interactive Week.  

Rapid growth is familiar territory for Huang, who also served in senior HR management roles at EarthLink, where he was involved in the creation of the HR department and supported the explosive growth of EarthLink from 100 employees to more than 7,000.

Joining the organization in 2001, DeRose's work on the business plan formed the outline for the technology and product plans for the current business. His other roles at VEGAS.com have included: the strengthening of the contact center; the acquisition and contract negotiation of dozens of technology-oriented contracts; the creation of the box office ticketing technology team; the management of maintenance and new construction of VEGAS.com's physical facilities; the oversight of risk management, fraud and credit card processing; as well as additional areas of responsibility overseeing software development, IT and the corporate training team.

DeRose brought a broad range of e-commerce expertise to VEGAS.com, including a role as Senior Manager of Business Development with EarthLink where he managed contracts and integration for dozens of content and commerce partnerships revolving around the EarthLink Personal Start Page product and its million-plus subscriber base. He originally entered web development in 1995 as a website designer, specializing in sites for companies such as Clear Channel, Schwinn Bicycles and various musical groups.