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The Innovation Group of Companies provides financial, management, investment banking, development, marketing and diversification advisory services to a signature, worldwide client base. The organization is comprised of five affiliates, highlighted below. Three specialty advisory divisions include Innovation Food & Beverage, Innovation Sports & Entertainment and Innovation Interactive.

Together, the companies evaluate operational and development opportunities, make strategic recommendations and offer the tactical tools to help clients implement them.

The organization has been associated with more than $75 billion in investment decisions throughout the past 20 years. Additionally, its areas of specialization have naturally expanded into a number of related discipliones that define the world of leisure and entertainment.

The company’s leadership has helped bring many of the world’s largest entertainment and hospitality developments to fruition, and has been exposed to industry best practices across six continents. Tribes, multibillion-dollar operators, government entities, global financial institutions and others depend on the company’s divisions:  

• The Innovation Group—Premier provider of consulting services for the gaming, entertainment and hospitality industries. Services include feasibility studies, market assessments, economic impact studies, strategic and financial planning, economic diversification, legislative and government advisory, litigation and expert witness support.

• Innovation Capital—Leading boutique investment banking firm offering Gaming & Leisure and Restaurant & Retail practices. Services include mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, financial restructuring and valuations/fairness opinions.

• Innovation Project Development—Experienced project management firm providing oversight of the industry’s most complex developments.

• Innovation Marketing—Translates the unparalleled consultancy, analysis and research of The Innovation Group into industry best practice marketing tactics. 

• Innovation Management Services—Exclusive network of operational experts offers short-term crisis management, operations evaluation, turnaround implementation, management strategy and pre-/post-opening services.

• Innovation Food & Beverage—Specialty advisory team offers research and analysis, operations and management, concepting and implementation, positioning and marketing, development and renovation and financing and asset management specific to F&B considerations.

• Innovation Sports & Entertainment—Practice to further establish the organization’s presence in a broader range of sports, entertainment, performance venue, convention center and related amenity segments.

• Innovation Interactive—Research, analysis and strategic advisory specific to the online gaming segment.