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From his executive office on the second floor of Scientific
Games’ global lottery headquarters just north of Atlanta, Sam
Wakasugi seems like a guy you’ve known all your life. He’s
polished and uber professional, yet so approachable you get
the impression that you can ask him just about anything.
Sam’s answers are thoughtful and his stories slowly unwind,
spanning across a lottery career that began in the early 1980s
and touching nearly every aspect of the business.
He has traveled and lived around the globe serving
some of the biggest
lotteries in the industry, including many start-ups. Today,
Sam leads Scientific Games’
Cooperative Services Program
—
or “
CSP
”—as many call the company’s highly successful
approach to instant game management. Integrating game
planning, analytics, marketing, inside sales, packaging,
warehousing and retail distribution,
CSP
is used by more than
20 lotteries, including nine of the Top 15 lotteries in the world
based on instant game per capita sales.
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SamWakasugi
INTERVIEW
VP, Global
CSP
Services
Scientific Games