Kirk Sanford's Professional Bio
Kirk Sanford is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Sightline Acquisition Corp, a privately held investment fund that
specializes in acquiring distressed property and other assets. Mr.
Sanford has a diverse business background and has completed a
variety of transactions in M&A, leverage recapitalizations, high
yield financings, private equity, and initial public offerings.
Mr. Sanford is a pioneer and leader in financial and payment
services to the casino industry and prior to the announcement of
retirement in October 2007, he was a founder, Chief Executive
Officer, President, and Director of Global Cash Access Inc. (NYSE:
GCA), a leading provider of cash access products and related
services to casino properties and other clients in the United
States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, the
Caribbean and Asia.
Mr. Sanford’s entrepreneurial leadership took a start-up company to
more than $1.5Billion market capitalization, $650Million in
annualized revenues, and 400 employees around the world.
Concurrently, he was Chief Executive Officer, President and Owner of
Central Credit, the leading provider of gaming patron credit
information services to casinos throughout the world.
From 1994 until 1998 Mr. Sanford was the general manager and
Executive Vice President of a joint venture between Bank of America
(BA) Merchant Services, Inc. and USA Processing, Inc. a start-up
merchant payments company.
Mr. Sanford has been featured by Business Week as one of the Top 100
CEO’s Under 40, American Executive, Macau Business, and numerous
casino and banking trade magazines around the world.