Tara Bustamante

Tara Bustamante is Chief Transformation Officer at IGT. She joined the newly combined enterprise and sits on its management and leadership team. In the role she leads organisational change initiatives, aligns strategy with business goals and encourages innovation across the divisions. Her remit includes value creation, greater efficiency and long-term growth.

Before IGT she was Group SVP for Global Business Transformation and Integration at Warner Bros. Discovery. There she built and led transformation teams, and she worked on some of the largest and most complex integrations in the media industry. These included transformation leadership for the $43 billion merger of Discovery and Warner Media.

Her earlier career included senior roles at Marriott International, the American Red Cross and MCI/WorldCom. In those positions she led work in ecommerce, digital asset management and supply chain logistics.

Her experience covers global reorganisations and programmes across finance, HR, technology and ad sales. She has worked on every phase of the M&A lifecycle, including day-one readiness and post-merger integration. She holds an MS from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Syracuse University.