Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2022年11月 亞博匯 38 2022 POWER 50 HOW DOES THE JUDGING PANEL DETERMINE THE RANKINGS? We have been asked this over and over across the years – and continue to be asked. Despite the fact we’ve explained it many times, let’s explain yet again! Even though the judging panel has become quite adept at putting this list together over the years, the task of ranking industry leaders seems to get more complex as the Asian gaming industry matures and becomes more nuanced. How on earth does one compare the sole owner of a smaller property to the brand new “hired help” COO of a much larger one? How about comparing a large property that is still in pre-opening to a smaller one that has been active for years? The CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club versus the head of a private casino company versus the President of a casino chain in Korea that doesn’t have locals gaming? And how should online and offline gaming be compared? These are the types of tough questions the selection panel of the Asian Gaming Power 50 wrestles with every year. As with any such ranked list, there are always criticisms and objections, usually from those who feel slighted. We often hear claims of not reading the list or not caring about it, but we are often sent messages, sometimes directly but more often through surrogates, bemoaning the injustice of a perceived lowly position and lobbying for the following year. Some lobby us to not be on the list at all as they feel it raises their profile too much. But no one ever contacts us to complain about being ranked too high! The rankings include a numerical “Power Score” for each person on the list. The calculation of this score is a mix of science and art. Points arise from a number of factors including the GGR of the person’s organization, a weighted dissection of those points between the top senior executives with key policy control of that organization, adjustments for whether the person is hired or has a major equity position, their length of tenure, how active in business initiatives the person has been in the prior 12 months,