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Kathleen M. Nylen heads up PBTK’s affiliated gaming and real estate consulting and valuation company. Ms. Nylen's clients have ranged from local to international hotel and casino owners and operators, major financial institutions, real estate developers and property managers, and governmental agencies. Ms. Nylen has extensive and significant experience in various aspects of the real estate and hospitality industries. She has conducted and/or managed a large number of consulting engagements in these industries, ranging from site selection studies to market and feasibility analysis and market value appraisals, as well as valuations of other businesses. Ms. Nylen has provided market analysis and/or valuation services for various types of real estate projects, including standing and proposed gaming and hotel and motel properties in many western and Midwestern states and gaming jurisdictions (including Native American projects) elsewhere across the country. She has provided similar services for retail centers, master-planned communities, residential subdivisions, apartment complexes and office buildings and has been the project director or a key member of several urban redevelopment study teams in Las Vegas and Reno. Her varied valuation and other consulting services have included, among other things, trend analyses and modeling, land use inventories, occupancy survey reports, and opportunity assessments. Ms. Nylen was formerly vice president of Burke Hansen, Inc., in charge of their Las Vegas office. She was also a principal, and was responsible for its Nevada consulting practice, with PBTK’s predecessor national accounting firm. Ms. Nylen is a certified general real estate appraiser in Nevada, an associate member of the Appraisal Institute and a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants (a highly coveted membership available only upon invitation). Ms. Nylen also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Community College of Southern Nevada Foundation, and was a charter member of CREW Southern Nevada. She is also an appointed member of the Clark County Board of Equalization. She served as Vice Chair of Finance and member of the Board of Trustees of the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce from 1994 through 2000. She has been a frequent guest lecturer at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (both for the College of Business and Economics and the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration) and has been a guest speaker at regional and national real estate and hospitality conferences. Ms. Nylen received the 1998 Sam Walton Business Leader Award sponsored by the Wal-Mart Foundation and was named one of the most influential women in Southern Nevada business 2003. She was the co-author of Cap Ex 2000, a study of capitol expenditures in the lodging industry, published by the ISHC. | 