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IAG NOV 2021年11月 亞博匯 92 26-50 PRESIDENT AND MANAGING DIRECTOR Melco International DIRECTOR Studio City International Holdings PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR Melco Resorts and Entertainment 董事 新濠影滙有限公司 董事總經理及主席 新濠國際發展有限公司 總裁及董事 新濠博亞娛樂有限公司 CLAIMS TO FAME 名成事跡 POWER SCORE 權能指數: 933 POSITION LAST YEAR 去年排名: 28 Key adviser to Melco Chairman and CEO Lawrence Ho Former investment banker who joined Melco in 2016 • • • • 新濠主席及行政總裁何猷龍首席顧問 前投資銀行家，2016年加入新濠集團 26 EVAN WINKLER FOR A COMPANY that has shown little tolerance in the past for anyone deemed to be underperforming, Melco Resorts and its charismatic Chairman and CEO Lawrence Ho must believe Evan Winkler is doing something right. Having joined the company in 2016 from global investment bank Moelis & Company, Winkler was appointed Melco’s President in September 2019 as part of an executive overhaul and charged with overseeing the daily operations of the company’s properties, including Macau, Manila and the Mediterranean. That hasn’t been an easy task for the 45-year-old given the challenges presented by COVID-19, which have turned the company’s focus more towards shoring up liquidity than counting their cash. There was also the not so small setback of seeing their Yokohama IR dreams quashed when the Japanese city withdrew from the development race in September of this year. In the meantime, Melco is still working on two non-gaming resorts in Japan, while 2022 will see the launch of City of Dreams Mediterranean – Europe’s first true integrated resort – in Cyprus and ongoing development of Studio City Phase 2 in Macau. Winkler’s personal experience includes almost 20 years in finance at Wall Street investment banks, participating in projects that familiarized him with Melco and vice versa. He worked on mergers and acquisitions at UBS, then joined Moelis & Company, founded in 2007 to specialize in M&A – a skill he put to good use when Melco briefly acquired a stake in Australia’s Crown Resorts in early 2019. 對於 一家過去對任何被認為表現不佳的人幾乎沒有容忍度的公司，新濠博 亞娛樂及其極富魅力的主席兼行政總裁何猷龍，一定是看到了Evan Winkler 的閃亮之處。 Winkler於2016年從全球投資銀行Moelis & Company加入新濠博亞， 作為行政改革的一部分於2019年9月被任命為新濠博亞總裁，負責監督新 濠在包括澳門、馬尼拉和地中海等地物業的日常營運。 新冠疫情所帶來的挑戰對今年45歲的Winkler而言也絕非易事，公司 的重點更多地轉向增強流動資金而非計算現金。還有一個不小的挫折是， 當橫濱在今年9月推出競標賽道時，新濠也眼見著橫濱IR之夢的破滅。 與此同時，新濠博亞仍在日本發展兩個非博彩度假村，並將在 2022年在塞浦路斯推出歐洲第一個真正的綜合度假村City of Dreams Mediterranean，此外還將在澳門持續興建新濠影滙二期項目。 在入職新濠之前，Winkler曾在美國華爾街的投資銀行從事金融工作 近二十年，期間，他曾參與了數個與新濠相關的項目並與新濠彼此之間加 深了解。Winkler曾在瑞士銀行從事併購業務，於2007年加入專門從事併 購業務的Moelis＆Company。2019年初新濠曾短暫的意欲收購其曾經的 合作夥伴澳洲皇冠度假酒店集團，而據悉Winkler本人曾在其中發揮很大作 用。