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| Born | (1969-06-19)June 19, 1969 (age 56) St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Occupation | President of Breitling Ventures |
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Thomas Breitling (born June 19, 1969) is an American entrepreneur.
Breitling was born inSt. Paul, Minnesota. His father became a pilot forNorthwest Airlines after serving in theUnited States Air Force. His mother was a nurse. Breitling was educated at St. John the Baptist inSavage, Minnesota through the eighth grade. He then went on to theAcademy of Holy Angels inRichfield, Minnesota, where he attendedhigh school and playedbasketball. He then went on to study at theUniversity of San Diego, California. He was a member of theSigma Pi fraternity and graduated with a degree inCommunications, with a minor inBusiness Administration, in 1991.
Breitling began as aweatherman forKHIZ, then was promoted to sports anchor. In 1993Tim Poster asked him to help him run his startup company, Las Vegas Reservation Systems. Breitling served as its vice president until he co-founded Travelscape.com in March 1998. Travelscape.com grossed $104 million in sales in 1999, from just $800,000 in sales in 1990. Breitling and Poster sold Travelscape toExpedia for over $89,750,000.
From June 2003 to September 2005, Breitling served as vice-chairman of theGolden Nugget Las Vegas properties inLas Vegas andLaughlin, Nevada. Breitling and Poster acquired the Golden Nugget properties in June 2003 for $215 million; their running of the casino was the subject of thereality television showThe Casino. In September 2005, they sold the Golden Nugget for approximately $340 million.
Breitling has published his autobiography,Double or Nothing in 2008.
Tom Breitling and Tim Poster joined Wynn Resorts subsidiary Wynn Las Vegas as Senior Vice Presidents of Strategy and Development in July 2008.[1]
In 2010, Tom Breitling co-founded Ultimate Gaming withLorenzo andFrank Fertitta. The goal of Ultimate Gaming was to bridge the gap between land basedcasinos andonline gaming to bring our players the Ultimate Gaming Experience.[2] In April 2013, Breitling's company launched the first ever, legal and regulatedonline poker site in theUnited States- Ultimate Poker.[3] On April 30, 2013, Ultimate Poker dealt the first ever legal hand ofonline poker in the state ofNevada.[4] Breitling then, successfully launched Ultimate Casino inside the State of New Jersey in November 2013.[5]
Breitling married model/actress Vanessa Tarazona in a lavish ceremony on September 12, 2007, in Lake Como, Italy.[6]
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