2011 GREAT WOMEN OF GAMING
Judge

Valerie Red-Horse

Owner and Founder
Red-Horse Financial Group Inc.

 

Valerie Red-Horse is owner/founder of Red-Horse Financial Group Inc., and a registered securities professional who has more than 30 years in-depth experience in the financial services/investment banking industry. Red-Horse has a unique expertise in tribal and gaming finance including debt restructuring, taxable issuance, private placements, municipal issuance, high yield bond transactions, leveraged finance and management turnaround.

Red-Horse has led more than 50 financial mandates totaling in excess of $2 billion dollars in transactions for American Indian Tribal Nations. Recognized as an Indian country expert, Red-Horse writes several gaming and tribal finance-focused columns for various industry publications and is the host for Casino Enterprise Management’s “Native American Gaming” live webcast talk show. Red-Horse was inducted into the NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) Hall of Fame in 2008. Red-Horse is also the founder of two non-profit organizations and heads a ministry serving the elders and children of the White Earth Ojibwe Community in Cass Lake, as well as a ministry serving women in rehabilitation in downtown Los Angeles.