Transact announced strategic alliance with Leap Forward Gaming

“Our groundbreaking, patented, highly-secure wireless technology provides TransAct with the ability to seamlessly offer new levels of connectivity throughout casino floors in an economical way,” said Ali Saffari, CEO of Leap Forward Gaming. “This partnership enables us to combine our creative teams to develop wireless solutions and applications that compliment and seamlessly integrate TransAct’s cutting-edge, innovative technology.”

“We are pleased to be partnering with Leap Forward Gaming, a leading technology firm focused on providing a wide variety of innovative products and solutions to the gaming industry,” said Bart C. Shuldman, Chairman and CEO of TransAct Technologies. “With our new Epicentral Print System, the TransAct and Leap Forward Gaming teams will be able to provide innovative, top-of-the-line wireless technology for the industry that will help drive innovation to the casino floor.”

The first innovative product of a multi-phase effort from the partnership is expected to be available to the gaming industry in spring 2011.

Leap Forward Gaming was founded by highly-respected gaming technology leader Ali Saffari, who is the driving force behind the company. Saffari is credited with leading the development of revolutionary products and some of the most widely accepted and profitable technologies in the industry to date, including multiple systems, ticket-in/ticket-out (TITO) and the integration of bill validators into gaming machines.