People: Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS)


LVS on New York Consolidated

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18 Jun 2013
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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Sheldon Adelson

79 2004 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer

Kenneth Kay

57 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President

John Caparella

54 2011 President and Chief Operating Officer of Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, Sands Expo & Convention Center, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Las Vegas Sands, LLC

Edward Tracy

60 2011 President, Chief Executive Officer of Sands China Ltd

Michael Leven

75 2010 President, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary, Director

Ira Raphaelson

58 2011 Executive Vice President, Global General Counsel

Chris Cahill

58 2012 Executive Vice President - Global Operations

Robert Goldstein

58 2011 Executive Vice President, President - Global Gaming Operations

George Tanasijevich

50 2011 Managing Director - Global Development; President and Chief Executive Officer of Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd

Irwin Chafetz

76 2005 Director

Victor Chaltiel

2012 Director

Charles Forman

65 2004 Director

Jason Ader

41 2009 Independent Director

George Koo

73 2008 Independent Director

Charles Koppelman

73 2011 Independent Director

Jeffrey Schwartz

53 2009 Independent Director

Irwin Siegel

72 2005 Independent Director

Daniel Briggs

VP Investor Relations

Biographies

Name Description

Sheldon Adelson

Mr. Sheldon Gary Adelson is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer of Las Vegas Sands Corp since August 2004. He has been Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Las Vegas Sands, LLC (or its predecessor, Las Vegas Sands, Inc.) since April 1988 when it was formed to own and operate the former Sands Hotel and Casino. Mr. Adelson has experience in the convention, trade show, and tour and travel businesses. Mr. Adelson also has investments in other business enterprises. Mr. Adelson created and developed the COMDEX Trade Shows, including the COMDEX/Fall Trade Show, which was the world’s computer show in the 1990s, all of which were sold to Softbank Corporation in April 1995. Mr. Adelson also created and developed The Sands Expo and Convention Center, which he grew into one of the convention and trade show destinations in the United States before transferring it in July 2004. He was President and Chairman of Interface Group Holding Company, Inc. and its predecessors since the mid-1970s and is a manager of Interface Group-Massachusetts, LLC and was President of its predecessors, since 1990. Mr. Adelson also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company’s subsidiary, Sands China Ltd., and as an officer and/or director of several of other subsidiaries.

Kenneth Kay

Mr. Kenneth J. Kay is Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Las Vegas Sands Corp since October 2010. He was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since December 1, 2008. Prior to joining Company, Mr. Kay served as the Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. from July 2002 to November 2008. From December 1999 until June 2002, Mr. Kay served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Dole Food Company, Inc.

John Caparella

Mr. John P. Caparella is President and Chief Operating Officer of Venetian Casino Resort, LLC, Sands Expo & Convention Center, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Las Vegas Sands, LLC., subsidiaries of Las Vegas Sands Corp since May 2011. Prior to joining the Company, he was a principal at Redmont Hospitality, a company that provides strategic advice to hospitality and gaming companies. Mr. Caparella served as the Executive Vice President of Gaylord Entertainment Company and Chief Operating Officer, Gaylord Hotels, from February 2006 until July 2009. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center. Prior to joining Gaylord Entertainment Company in November 2000, Mr. Caparella served as Executive Vice President, Planning, Development and Administration and President of PlanetHollywood.com for Planet Hollywood International, Inc., a creator and developer of entertainment-based consumer brands. Before joining Planet Hollywood in 1997, Mr. Caparella was with ITT Sheraton, an owner and operator of hotel brands, for 17 years in convention, resort, business and 4-star luxury properties, as well as ITT Sheraton’s corporate headquarters.

Edward Tracy

Mr. Edward Matthew Tracy is President, Chief Executive Officer of Sands China Ltd., subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp since July 2011. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Company’s subsidiary, Sands China Ltd., since July 2011. He previously served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sands China Ltd. from July 2010 until July 2011. Prior to joining Sands China Ltd., Mr. Tracy has more than twenty years of management and development experience in the gaming and hospitality industry, including as the president and chief executive officer of the Tracy Group, a casino management and development company, from 2003 to July 2010, the managing partner of Princeton Partners, a management and development company, from 1998 to 2001 and the chairman and chief executive officer of Capital Gaming International, a multi-jurisdictional manager and developer of regional casinos, from 1993 to 1998. Mr. Tracy has also served as the chief executive officer of the Trump Organization, the vice president and general manager of the Sands Hotel and Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the vice president and director of hotel operations for Middex Hospitality, a New York-based hotel development company. Mr. Tracy began his career in the hotel industry at Hotel Investors Trust in which he served in several executive hotel management positions, including director of operations.

Michael Leven

Mr. Michael Alan Leven is President, Chief Operating Officer, Secretary, Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Mr. Leven has been the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer since March 2009, Secretary since June 2010 and a director of the Company since August 2004. He was a director of Las Vegas Sands, Inc. from May 2004 until July 2005. Mr. Leven served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Georgia Aquarium from September 2008 until he joined Company in March 2009. Since July 2010, Mr. Leven has also served as the Acting Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company’s subsidiary, Sands China Ltd. From January 2006 through September 2008, Mr. Leven was the Vice Chairman of the Marcus Foundation, Inc., a non-profit foundation. Until July 2006, Mr. Leven was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of U.S. Franchise Systems, Inc., the company he founded in 1995 that developed and franchised the Microtel Inns & Suites and Hawthorn Suites hotel brands. He was previously the president and chief operating officer of Holiday Inn Worldwide, president of Days Inn of America, and president of Americana Hotels. Mr. Leven also serves as Special Adviser to the Board of Directors of the Company’s subsidiary, Sands China Ltd., and as an officer and/or director of several of other subsidiaries. Mr. Leven serves as a director emeritus of Hersha Hospitality Trust. Mr. Leven serves on many other non-profit boards.

Ira Raphaelson

Mr. Ira H. Raphaelson is Executive Vice President, Global General Counsel of Las Vegas Sands Corp since November 2011. Mr. Raphaelson served as vice president and general counsel of Scientific Games Corp. from February 2006 until October 2011 and as its secretary from June 2006 until October 2011. Mr. Raphaelson was a partner in the Washington D.C. office of the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP for ten years and a partner in the Washington D.C. office of Shaw Pittman for three years. Prior to entering private practice, he was a state and federal prosecutor for 15 years, serving the last two years as Presidentially appointed Special Counsel for Financial Institutions Crime.

Chris Cahill

Mr. Chris J. Cahill is Executive Vice President - Global Operations of Las Vegas Sands Corp since April 2012. Prior to joining Company, Mr. Cahill served as the chief operating officer of Fairmont Raffles Hotels International from 2006 to March 2012. He has also served as the president and chief operating officer of Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and president of Raffles Hotels and Resorts. In addition, Mr. Cahill has served as the president and chief operating officer and in various other positions at Canadian Pacific Hotels. He also has held various positions at Delta Hotels and Resorts in Canada.

Robert Goldstein

Mr. Robert G. Goldstein is Executive Vice President, President - Global Gaming Operations of Las Vegas Sands Corp since January 2011. He is Executive Vice President of Company since July 2009. He served as the Senior Vice President of Company from August 2004 until July 2009. He has been the Executive Vice President of Las Vegas Sands, LLC (or its predecessor, Las Vegas Sands, Inc.) since July 2009 and was its Senior Vice President from December 1995 until July 2009. From 1992 until joining Company in December 1995, Mr. Goldstein was the Executive Vice President of Marketing at the Sands Hotel in Atlantic City as well as an Executive Vice President of the parent Pratt Hotel Corporation.

George Tanasijevich

Mr. George Tanasijevich is Managing Director - Global Development of Las Vegas Sands Corp, President and Chief Executive Officer of Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd., subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp. He has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company’s subsidiary, Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd since July 2011 and the Managing Director, Global Development of Las Vegas Sands Corp. since January 2011. He also has held other senior executive positions at the Company’s Singapore operations since 2005. Prior to that, Mr. Tanasijevich was the Company’s Director of Development, based in Macau, from 2004 to 2005. Mr. Tanasijevich previously served as Senior Vice President/Equity Markets at CapitaLand Limited, a Singapore-based real estate conglomerate, and as Corporate Vice President of General Growth Properties, a shopping mall REIT. Mr. Tanasijevich is a member of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Global Advisory Board, and a Board Member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Hotel Association.

Irwin Chafetz

Mr. Irwin Chafetz is Director of the Las Vegas Sands Corp since February 2005. He was a director of Las Vegas Sands, Inc. from February until July 2005. Mr. Chafetz is a Manager of The Interface Group, LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company that controls Interface Group-Massachusetts, LLC. Mr. Chafetz has been associated with Interface Group-Massachusetts, LLC and its predecessors since 1972. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Chafetz was a Vice President and director of Interface Group-Nevada, Inc., which owned and operated trade shows, including COMDEX, which at its peak was the American trade show with a presence in more than 20 countries, and also owned and operated The Sands Expo and Convention Center, the first privately owned convention center in the United States. From 1989 to 1995 Mr. Chafetz was also Vice President and a director of Las Vegas Sands, Inc. Mr. Chafetz has served on the boards of directors of many charitable and civic organizations and is a member of the Board of Trustees at Suffolk University and a former member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Boston University School of Management.

Victor Chaltiel

Charles Forman

Mr. Charles D. Forman is Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp since August 2004. He has been a director of Las Vegas Sands, LLC since March 2004. Mr. Forman served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Centric Events Group, LLC, a trade show and conference business from April 2002 until his retirement upon the sale of the business in 2007. From 2000 to 2002, he served as a director of a private company and participated in various private equity investments. From 1995 to 2000, he held various positions with subsidiaries of Softbank Corporation. During 2000, he was Executive Vice President of International Operations of Key3Media, Inc. From 1998 to 2000, he was Chief Legal Officer of ZD Events Inc., a tradeshow business that included COMDEX, which was the tradeshow in the United States in the 1990s. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Forman was Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Legal Officer of Softbank Comdex Inc. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Forman was Vice President and General Counsel of The Interface Group, a tradeshow and convention business that owned and operated COMDEX. Mr. Forman was in private law practice from 1972 to 1988. Mr. Forman is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and an Overseer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Jason Ader

Mr. Jason N. Ader is Independent Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp since April 2009. Mr. Ader is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ader Investment Management LLC, a New York-based investment advisor and merchant banking firm specializing in the hospitality and real estate sectors that he founded in March 2003. Mr. Ader is also a Director of Western Liberty Bancorp. Prior to founding Ader Investment Management LLC, Mr. Ader was a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., from 1995 to 2003. From 1993 to 1995 he was a Vice President at Smith Barney, and from 1990 to 1993 he was an analyst at Baron Capital. Mr. Ader’s investment banking and merchant banking experience and knowledge about the hospitality and casino industries led the Board to conclude that he should be a member of Board of Directors.

George Koo

Dr. George P. Koo is Independent Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp since April 2008. Dr. Koo is a special advisor to the Chinese Services Group of Deloitte & Touche LLP. From April 1999 until April 2008, Dr. Koo was the Director of the Chinese Services Group of Deloitte & Touche LLP. He is a member of Committee of 100, a national organization of prominent Chinese Americans, the Pacific Council for International Policy and the Beijing-based Overseas Friendship Association and a director of New America Media, a non-profit organization.

Charles Koppelman

Mr. Charles A. Koppelman is Independent Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp since October 2011. Mr. Koppelman has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CAK Entertainment, Inc., a music and entertainment business, since 1997. In addition, Mr. Koppelman has served as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. since September 2011 and as its Executive Chairman and principal executive officer from July 2008 until September 2011. Mr. Koppelman joined the Board of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Inc. in July 2004 and became its Chairman in June 2005. Mr. Koppelman served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EMI Records Group, North America, from 1994 to 1997, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EMI Music Publishing from 1990 to 1994. He has been a director of Six Flags Entertainment Corp. since May 2010, where he serves on the audit committee and the compensation committee. Mr. Koppelman is also a former director of Steve Madden Ltd., and served as its Chairman of the Board from 2000 to 2004.

Jeffrey Schwartz

Mr. Jeffrey Howard Schwartz is Independent Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp since March 2009. He is the Deputy Chairman, Chairman of the Executive Committee and Co-Founder of Global Logistic Properties, which controls the platform of logistic facilities in Asia and is listed on the Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX). Mr. Schwartz was the Chief Executive Officer of ProLogis from January 2005 through November 2008. Mr. Schwartz also serves on the Board of Directors of the Company’s subsidiary, Sands China Ltd. He served as a director of ProLogis from August 2004 to November 2008 and ProLogis European Properties from September 2006 until November 2008.

Irwin Siegel

Mr. Irwin Abe Siegel is Independent Director of Las Vegas Sands Corp since February 2005. He was a director of Las Vegas Sands, Inc. from February 2005 until July 2005. Mr. Siegel is a certified public accountant and was a partner (specializing in the hospitality industry) in the international accounting and consulting firm of Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1973 to 2003, when he retired. From 1996 through 1999 Mr. Siegel served as the CEO of the Deloitte operations in the former Soviet Union. Mr. Siegel has been working as a business consultant since 2003. Mr. Siegel has served on the boards of directors of many charitable and civic organizations and is a past president of the Weinstein Hospice in Atlanta. Mr. Siegel also serves on the Board of Directors of the Company’s subsidiary, Sands China Ltd.

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