George Togliatti is currently serving his second tenure as the Director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. He is the former Vice President of Security, Surveillance, & Safety at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is also a licensed Private Investigator and, in this capacity, acts as a security consultant for the National Hockey League (NHL). Mr. Togliatti is also engaged as an Associate Graduate Faculty member for the Graduate College at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Greenspun College of Urban Affairs; Master of Science Studies in Emergency & Crisis Management. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice; William F. Harrah’s College of Hospitality and International Gaming Institute; and the Center for Professional & Leadership Studies (PLuS Center). He also moderates a monthly public service radio program simulcast on four Las Vegas AM/FM radio stations.

In 2004, Toglittli also previously was appointed by Governor Kenny Guinn to Director of the Nevada Department of Public Safety with responsibility for the Nevada Highway Patrol, Nevada Division of Parole & Probation, Nevada Division of Investigation, Homeland Security, Division of Emergency Management, Criminal History Repository, Technology Division, and Fire Marshal. Mr. Togliatti also served as a member of the Board of the Nevada Police Officer Standards & Training Commission (POST). Prior to his appointment, George Togliatti served as the Regional Vice President of Government, Community Relations, and Regulatory Compliance for Harrah's Entertainment Inc. He also served as Treasurer of the Harrah's Employee Political Action Committee (PAC). In addition, he established and served as Treasurer of The Harrah's Foundation, a not-for-profit private foundation. During this time, he also served as a security consultant to MLB (Major League Baseball) and the (AFL) Arena Football League. Prior to the relationship with Harrah's, Mr. Togliatti served as Vice President of Corporate Security, Government and Community Relations for Caesars World Inc., based in Las Vegas.

Mr. Togliatti is a former Supervisory Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his FBI service, he managed the organized crime and drug units in Las Vegas, and also served as the white-collar crime supervisor. He served the Bureau as a Special Agent in Detroit, Michigan and Boise, Idaho assigned primarily to criminal matters, electronic surveillance, and undercover operations. While assigned to the Detroit Division, he was the undercover agent in a racketeering case that resulted in the conviction of the then Genesee County (Flint, MI) District Attorney. While working in the Las Vegas Division of the FBI, he was the undercover agent assigned to infiltrate the Gambino and Detroit organized crime families' operations in Nevada. In the latter case, he testified in 2002 in the trial of alleged mob underboss, Anthony Zerilli, and in 2001, in the trial of mob boss Jack Tocco and two of his capos.

Mr. Togliatti is a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, a former member of the Mt. Charleston Town Advisory Board for Clark County, the Board of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, and the FBI Citizens Academy Foundation. He is also a former board member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Civilian Review Board, the Greater Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees, the Nevada Resort Association (NRA) Government Relations, Budget, and Regulatory Affairs Committees, the Women’s Development Center, as well as other community organizations in Nevada. In 2010 he was appointed a member of the Clark County Committee on Community Priorities, a citizen’s panel tasked with reviewing the county budget for 2010 & 2011. He was also a member of “Las Vegas 2000”, a visionary project designed to predict and address the city’s needs entering the new millennium.

Mr. Togliatti is a former Naval Aviator. He achieved a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, performed graduate study in Accounting at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and is in possession of a master of arts degree in Criminal Justice Administration from the University of Detroit (Detroit-Mercy), Detroit, Michigan.