Part of our relationship with nearly all of our partners requires us to look at our gaming database and ask ‘How do we monetize it?’”Īn easy question to ask, a difficult conundrum to answer. “We’re game creators at heart, but we’re also very business-minded. Looking at things through a long-term lens allows Boom to build something of lasting value, Viverito notes. “Nearly every deal we’ve done to date is a multi-year strategic partnership.”
“We don’t do a lot of off-the-shelf products,” says Viverito. To execute on that promise, Boom takes a unique approach to its business. Our partners rely on us to create gaming products and platforms that are sustainably entertaining.” “I think the simplest way to think about Boom,” Viverito says, “is that we’re game creators. Viverito sees the company as an exciting long-term play for success. Puns and money talk aside, Boom Entertainment is carving out a niche for itself in the crowded gambling space.
We’ll also be creating some unique sports betting concepts (which we’ll also license and distribute to partners via RGS) that offer players new, simple, fun ways to bet on sports,” says Greg Viverito (pictured), Boom’s vice president of business development. “The new raise will allow us to invest more resources into developing ultra-premium real-money gaming content for GNOG, RSI, and other strategic operator partners.
Hot on the heels of a $15 million Series A funding round led by Sands Corporation, Boom Entertainment is…well…booming. Cole Rush speaks to vice president of business development Greg Viverito about the rise of the business. If we had the opportunity to do more large scale scenes, I think it would benefit everybody.Following a $15m fundraising round, Boom Entertainment hopes to build something of lasting value through both free-to-play or real-money partnerships. “An advanced post-blast course would be a good step from here because they definitely started from the basics and worked us towards a bigger scene. “I definitely would like to (take another course), maybe even to further (this course),” said Frey. Frey looks forward to taking more courses in the future, whether it be with the ATF or another agency. The benefits of this course cannot be measured, and the comradery built was invaluable.
“It’s nice to come together and see how we all work together, as we potentially could in a large-scale event.” “It was definitely useful for us to be working with our brother agencies, not only working with other EOD flights but also law enforcement and federal law enforcement assets that do the exact same job we do, they have a more investigative role,” said Staff Sgt. The class allowed them to become acquainted with how other EOD units work as well as with the civilians in local and federal law enforcement. Probably the biggest takeaway was how large-scale it became.”įrom base to base, Airmen work diversely and at different rates. It was a whole new aspect of post-blast investigations I definitely like that and I haven’t had much training on it. This was a lot more detailed and in-depth, collecting a lot more evidence. “Most of the time it is you get in and out, or you can only get so many things.
“Overall, it was a good course to teach us how to identify a post-blast scene and how ATF or federal agencies would like (the process done) because (the military process is expeditious),” said Senior Airman Robert Frey, 49th Civil Engineer Squadron EOD technician. “We work through the week between PowerPoints and practical exercises where the students are actually able to work a bona fide post-blast scene at the conclusion of training.”Īirmen enjoyed the opportunity to learn more about explosives and the investigative roles that can be expected in specific scenarios. “It is a crawl-walk-run methodology where we start with rudimentary information about explosives (like the) parts, pieces and components,” said Steve Wiley, ATF post-blast investigation training program manager. Special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Center for Explosives Training and Research provided 40 hours of hands-on training covering the procedures to take after an explosion occurs. Airmen from five Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams across the Air Force and members of Doña Ana County Police Department’s bomb squad gathered here for post-blast training, March 18-22, 2019.