Kentucky Lottery president and CEO set to retire

Comment #6

Stack47 — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:51:32 GMT

Learned total sales from July through December were $540.8M, which is $3.5M less than last year and $32.2 behind budget. A lack of large jackpots in the Powerball and Mega Millions games account for the decline from last year.

Bet almost every state lottery (if not all) had the same problem. Just goes to show how valuable monster jackpots are, regardless where they are won.

Comment #5

Hit2nite — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 19:12:11 GMT

Interesting

Comment #4

Bleudog101 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 09:32:16 GMT

I didn't. Said he loves to ride a motorcycle through the countryside.

Comment #3

Todd — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:58:19 GMT

Awesome! Hopefully you got a chance to discuss Corvettes with him.

Comment #2

Bleudog101 — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:20:49 GMT

Was so glad to have met him this past summer, a very nice gentleman.

BTW Todd, I mentioned your name to Chip Polston and gave you kudos the same day.

Hopefully his replacement has forward thinking like Tom has.

Comment #1

music* — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:45:57 GMT

With no large jackpots in MM PB, the State Lotteries do suffer. They just wish for a billion-dollar jackpot.

Kentucky Lottery President and CEO Tom Delacenserie knew when to retire at age 72. I hope he enjoys life as a retiree. Family comes first.

Kentucky Lottery president and CEO set to retire

Lottery Post — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:30:09 GMT

In today's meeting of the Kentucky Lottery Corporation's board of directors, Lottery President and CEO Tom Delacenserie announced his retirement effective March 6.

Delacenserie, who turns 72 years old this year, assumed the top job in May 2017. Sales from FY17 through FY19 rose from $1,000,501,000 to $1,129,655,000, a $129.1 million (12.9%) increase during his tenure.

We've accomplished a tremendous amount in the last two and a half years, Delacenserie said. We strengthened our brand by c... [ More ]