LAKES ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Headquarters: Minnetonka
Business: Develops, finances and manages Indian-owned casinos. Has management contracts with five Indian tribes in California, Oklahoma and Michigan for eight casino sites. Also is majority owner of WPT Enterprises Inc., which operates the World Poker Tour.
Employees: 50
Chairman and CEO: Lyle Berman, 66
2006 sales: $29.9 million
2006 profit: $19.8 million
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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