Mike Skelton is President of The Casino Chip and Gaming Token Collectors Club, Inc., a not for profit organization that produces the world’s largest casino collectibles show. He is a Club Hall of Fame member, a recipient of the Honorary Life Membership Award, a guest lecturer and has been collecting casino memorabilia for more than 20 years.

For years, Gerry McCambridge was known as “The Mentalist to the Stars,” performing at private A-list Hollywood celebrity parties. He has appeared on many television shows including “The Today Show,” “Late Night with David Letterman,” “The Best Damn Sports Show…Period,” and “The Vegas Show.” Today, he is performing on the Las Vegas Strip with a mixture of comedy, mind reading, intuition and strange predictions.

Joe Asher is a managing director of Cantor Gaming, and has been the point man in Nevada’s legalization of “mobile” or wireless gaming. He led Cantor’s campaign to obtain the 2005 Nevada legislature’s approval of mobile gaming.

Omar Sofradzija is an award-winning writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and has written the “Road Warrior” column on commuting and getting from here to there in Las Vegas since 2003. Before coming to Las Vegas, Omar spend five years covering transportation issues in Peoria, Illinois.

Richard N. “Rick” Velotta is in his 15th year with the Las Vegas Sun. In his time with The Sun, he has served as business editor, and currently is a business writer, focusing on the tourism and aviation industries. In addition to writing for The Sun, he writes a weekly tourism column for In Business Las Vegas and appears regularly on the “In Business Las Vegas” cable television show as well as “Nevada Week in Review.”

Jackie Brett has written about Las Vegas for more than 29 years. Her Las Vegas and Laughlin syndicated columns appear in the San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, Ventura Star, Bakersfield Californian, Arizona Republic and the Las Vegas Leisure Guide, as well as on her website, www.jackiebrett.com.

Larry Hanna has been working as an advertising photographer in Las Vegas since 1976. He is a four-time recipient of the prestigious Nevada Professional Photographer of the Year award.

Derek David, backed by a 17-piece band, serves up the music of the 1940’s. and this is the place to do it.” Throughout his career, David has sung virtually every kind of music. He began performing professionally in when he was 15 years old when he started a band called The Young Senators in his hometown of Washington, D.C. That band eventually became the backup band for Eddie Kendricks and The Temptations.

Quan is a Ferengi Commerce Authority Liquidator; authorized to close retail and restaurant facilities with a single command. Credibility is questionable due to bad business decisions. Held in low regard by employees and fellow Ferengi. Eighty years old, still paying off student loans.

Steven Lee began playing guitar and French horn at 13. While being groomed for a career in classical music at Wayne State in Detroit, he became an in demand guitarist, performing in some of that city’s hottest jazz clubs and recording sessions at Motown and United Artists studios. Steven moved to Las Vegas and is now the musical director for Sunset Strip, performing in the Las Vegas Hilton’s Shimmer Cabaret.

Lorena Peril, a native of San Francisco, sang in her father’s church as a small child. Soon, she began playing in local Bay Area clubs and performed annually at the Cinco De Mayo Festival. Next up was a five-year contract with Carnival Cruise Lines. Now in Las Vegas, Lorena has joined Sunset Strip at the Las Vegas Hilton.

John Katsilometes, who has lived in Las Vegas for ten years, writes the “Fabulous Las Vegas” column for the Las Vegas Sun, covering the unique city that never runs out of interesting people and events. His column runs five days a week. Prior to his current position, John was feature editor for the Sun for five years.

The Wine Guy has spent 20 years in the wine business as both an importer and distributor in New York. He grew up in a wine environment and toured every winery in Chile and Argentina. He now offers wine tastings at Fortuna, the coffee and wine experience at the Las Vegas Hilton.

Sean Daly has covered celebrities and popular culture more than 10 years. He has interviewed more than 1,500 of the biggest names in Hollywood and is a regular West Coast contributor to The New York Daily News, The Toronto Star and numerous major daily newspapers. Sean also worked for Us Weekly, In Touch and People magazine, and founded Celebrity Week a year ago.

From “Can’t Even Get the Blues” in 1982 to “Somebody” in 2004, Reba has been delivering number one songs for more than 20 years, winning, among other honors, 15 American Music Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music Awards, 7 Country Music Association Awards and 2 Grammys. Her self-titled TV show, “REBA” reigns as the WB’s top rated sitcom in its fifth season, and has landed Reba a Golden Globe nomination and a People’s Choice Award.

Trevor Groth is director of programming for CineVegas. Under his guidance, CineVegas has emerged as one of the hottest film festivals in the United States. He is also senior programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, where he has worked since 1993 He has been a guest curator, panelist and juror for numerous international festivals, as well as a consultant on a number of film productions and for IFILM.com.

Steve Friess is a Vegas-based freelance writer whose work appears regularly in USA Today, Newsweek, Wired and Conde Nast Traveler. Friess is also co-host of the celebrity interview podcast “The Strip” and a former staff writer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

For more than 30 years the stage has been home to Marcel Forestieri. From his groundbreaking Elvis impersonation in 1971, which took him to Wolfman Jack’s “I Saw Radio” tour and “Shock & Rock” revue, Marcel Forestieri was destined to be an entertaining force early in his career.

Valerie Thrower will be a busy instructor starting this Monday (June 5). She’ll be teaching the basics of table games in the main casino of the Las Vegas Hilton including. Craps (10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.); 3 Card Poker, Let it Ride, Texas Hold ‘Em, and Pai Gow Poker (3:15 p.m.), and Texas Hold’Em (5 p.m.).