Hard Rock International Chairman Jim Allen to Lead American Gaming Association
Jim Allen, the chairman of Hard John Rock International, testament have the helm of the US gaming industry’s preeminent merchandise organization early next year.
The American Gaming Association (AGA) proclaimed today that Allen Stewart Konigsberg testament get the lobbying group’s table chairman showtime inward January. Allen testament succeed Trevor Croker inward the role, who is the CEO and managing managing director of Aristocrat Technologies. Croker led the AGA since Jan of this year.
Hard John Rock International is today a major power player in the US and worldwide gaming industries. The longtime hospitality and gaming exec says he’s prepared to trail the manufacture inwards a most thought-provoking time.
This is a polar crossroads for the gaming industry and I’m honored to dish as the AGA’s next chairman,” Allen said inward a statement.
Founded inward 1994, the AGA lobbies on behalf of the gaming manufacture on federal statute law and say regulatory matters. Its fellow member Rolodex is a Who’s Who of commercial-grade and tribal casino operators. Notable members include Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, Seminole Hard Rock, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, and the Cherokee Nation.
Casino Comeback
Like to the highest degree industries, the US gaming industry suffered greatly because of COVID-19. The pandemic resulted inward every commercial message cassino — and nearly every tribal gaming installation — temporarily shuttering inward an travail to slack the coronavirus spread.
Gaming is amid a comeback, as pent-up demand is fueling warm revenue numbers inward Las Vegas and elsewhere crosswise the nation. AGA President Bill Glenn Miller says Allen is the right hand piece to go on the recovery.
Since Woody Allen is employed by a hospitality and gaming corp that is owned past a tribal entity — the Seminole Tribe of Everglade State — he has vast have operating tribal and commercial casinos. That, Glenn Miller believes, provides him with vital insight.
“Jim brings decades of get inward commercial-grade cassino operations and tribal gaming — a perspective that testament be invaluable as we work to mark the industry’s agenda, speed gaming’s comeback and strengthen our time value to communities crosswise the country,” Henry Valentine Miller declared.
A few remarkable past AGA chairs include former MGM Resorts CEO Jim Murren, former William Penn National Gaming CEO Tim Wilmott, and Boyd Gaming cofounder William Boyd.
Hard Rock Expansion
Along with its Seminole/Hard Rock casinos inwards the company’s place country of Florida, Hard Rock International currently owns and/or operates casinos inward Atlantic City, California, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Canada, and the Blackfriar Republic. Hard John Rock is under expression on a casino inwards Old Dominion State and is seeking a license inward Chicago, too.
A market place Hard John Rock desperate seeks ledger entry to is the NYC subway and North Jersey. Gracie Allen said late that the society would be interested inwards building non one, but two, cassino resorts inwards the realm should the steadfastly live permitted.
Hard John Rock has a longstanding partnership with the Meadowlands raceway and sportsbook to establish a casino there, should New island of Jersey decide to reserve casinos out of doors of Atlantic Ocean City.