Inside Asian Gaming

IAG NOV 2022年11月 亞博匯 72 1-10 9 CEO and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Wynn Macau CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Wynn Resorts 行政總裁及執行董事 永利澳門 行政總裁 永利渡假村 POWER SCORE 權能指數: 1,026 POSITION LAST YEAR 去年排名: NIL 無 CRAIG BILLINGS 潘國宏 CLAIMS TO FAME 名成事跡 Just the third ever CEO of Wynn Resorts Held executive roles at IGT and Aristocrat 永利渡假村有史以來第三位行政總裁 曾於IGT及盛世貴族出任決策層職務 THE FEBRUARY DEPARTURE of Matt Maddox after four years as Wynn Resorts CEO opened the door for Craig Billings to complete a whirlwind rise to the top of the company he had joined at Maddox’s request some five years earlier. Billings, just the third CEO in Wynn’s history after Maddox and company founder Steve Wynn, brings serious financial chops to the role, having previously held executive and board positions with Aristocrat Leisure Limited, NYX Gaming Group, IGT and Goldman Sachs. He first crossed paths with Wynn Chairman Phil Satre more than a decade ago during a brief two- year stint as Chief of Staff and Head of Corporate Development for IGT, before spending time with Aristocrat in both Australia and the United Kingdom. But it was after leaving Aristocrat in late 2016 that Maddox, then Wynn’s President and Chief Financial Officer, came knocking. The pair worked closely together, and when Maddox was tapped to replace Steve Wynn as CEO in 2018 Billings made the natural step up into the CFO role. He was later called on to lead the company’s digital arm, Wynn Interactive Ltd, and was announced as such in mid-2021 before a failed SPAC merger saw the company’s direction change and Billings pegged instead to replace Maddox as CEO of the full Wynn Resorts group, as well as its Macau subsidiary Wynn Macau Ltd. Billings has stepped into the Wynn limelight at a good time, with the company’s US domestic operations