Gambling/General : The gambling industry's personalities (part 3)

Donald Trump
From the gallery of successful businessmen in gambling industry he is one of the most popular. It’s no wonder why. He appears almost everywhere due to his exposure in the media.

He was born in 1946, in Queens, New York, United States. At the beginning of his career he worked at his father's company, the Trump Organization, on the field of middle class rental housing. In time, Donald expanded his domain to mass media, casinos, restaurants, but his main activity was always in the real estate field.

In present he is the CEO of Trump Organization and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which develops activities in gambling industry. As you can see gambling casino serves for most of the businessmen as a real support for them to imply in other domains.

Having a good sense of business he understands what his opportunities in the gambling industry are and along the way, he founded three casinos in Atlantic City: Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza and Trump Marina.

He knew that building another casino in Las Vegas was risky because there is the world capital of gambling, so he concentrated his attention and efforts on Atlantic City. With a fortune of 2.6 billion dollars, Donald Trump is classified very very high in the Forbes world rating.


Calvin Ayre
The gambling business, as all human activities, is affected by the innovations of IT technologies. Calvin Ayre, born in 1961 in Canada, found his niche there in online gambling.

Helped by his influence, gambling is moving on the internet in a big way. So now you can play club poker or make bets on the results of sporting events, all without leaving home.

Maybe you imagine that Calvin came from the IT industry and that’s why he came up with the concept of online gambling. You‘ll be surprised to find that his first job was selling fruit. Ambitious and motivated by his achievements in the fruit business, earning around 10 thousand dollars, he organized a company that specializes in IT technologies because he believe in the potential of the internet.

Over the years he became involved in a number of business ventures, mostly in the technology sector. He started his online gambling business after he reads an article about the opportunity of betting via telephone. As a consequence,in 1994 he creates Bodog Entertainment Group and with the help of web portal bodog.com his business has flourished.

Calvin appears in Forbes world rating occupying the 746th place.