MGM Resorts Shuffles Regional Leadership, Melonie Johnson Back to National Harbor
MGM Resorts is overhauling its leaders of Little Joe of the company’s casino properties out of doors of Las Vegas.
The casino manipulator this calendar week announced that Melonie LBJ testament coming back to MGM National Harbor out of doors DC inwards MD after a rough twelvemonth and a half leading Borgata inwards Atlantic City. Travis Lunn, a longtime MGM executive, testament put back Lyndon Baines Johnson inwards New Jersey.
Johnson inward May of 2020 made account when she became the first of all Shirley Temple woman to head an Atlantic Ocean City casino. Andrew Johnson had served as chairperson and chief operating officer of MGM National Harbor from the $1.4 1000000000000 structured resort’s Nov 2017 curtain raising until departing for Borgata. Now, she returns to Maryland.
I am thrilled to live back inward Old Line State where I appear frontwards to re-engaging with our employees and reconnecting with the Prince George’s County community,” President Lyndon Johnson said inwards a statement. “I was able to attestor many of our resort’s successes during my previous triad and a half years there, and I’m looking for forwards to workings with the team up towards many more in the years to come.”
MGM’s domestic regional trading operations today bring forth more yearbook porcine gaming revenue (GGR) than the company’s Strip casinos. Prior to the pandemic inwards 2019, MGM’s non-Vegas casinos reported GGR of $3.5 billion. MGM casinos on the Strip won $2.04 billion.
Lunn Run
Travis Lunn arrives at Borgata after a successful stint as MGM’s president and COO inwards Mississippi. There, he oversaw the operations of Beau Rivage Resort & Casino inwards Biloxi and Gold Strike Casino Resort inwards Tunica.
MGM Resorts said both casinos that Lunn oversaw experienced book gaming revenue lowest year despite the myriad of challenges presented by COVID-19. Lunn now heads to Atlantic Ocean City, where he’ll leading MGM’s to the highest degree important belongings non set on the Las Vegas Strip.
“It’s an honor,” Lunn said of his appointment. “Borgata is a world-class holiday resort terminus with a trademark recognised nationwide for its spectacular accommodations, culinary program, and entertainment offerings.
I can’t waiting to leap inward and unite with all of the employees, guests, and local community,” Lunn added.
Brandon Dardeau will take Lunn’s former role in Mississippi. type A longtime MGM executive, Dardeau most lately served as superior general manager and senior VP of marketing and operations for Gold Strike.
An MGM Resorts collective interpreter told Casino.org that the leaders changes “strengthen our operations and perspective us for farther growing in the regions.”
AC Female Leadership Wanes
Johnson’s going away agency that only when unity of the ix casinos inwards Atlantic City are today led by a female. type A minuscule more than a yr ago, quaternity casinos inward town had females atop of their leadership hierarchy.
Karie Marguerite Radclyffe Hall lastly May left hand Bally’s Atlantic City to go senior VP and general manager of Caesars Entertainment’s Harrah’s and Harvey’s Lake Tahoe casinos. Terry Glebocki shocked the Atlantic Ocean City gaming industry inward Oct when she proclaimed her resignation as CEO of Ocean Casino Resort. Glebocki at the clip was also the president of the Casino Association of New Jersey.
With President Lyndon Johnson moving plump for to the DC metro, Jacqueline Grace remains the resole female leading an Atlantic City casino. Grace was decreed full general manager and senior VP of Tropicana Atlantic City in Sep of 2020.