gaming ceo pay
CEO Compensation in the Shrinking Casino Industry
Keith Kefgen | November 6, 2019
(November 6, 2019) - As the list of public gaming CEOs continues to shrink due to consolidation and the growing competition of technology-based options, "gaming" in its broadest sense will force any entertainment organization to consider a multi-segment strategy (think the NFL, FanDuel, DraftKings, and Jay-Z). The casino industry will be no different, as younger adults focus on their mobile device and skills-based gambling. Thus, the annual AETHOS list of public gaming CEOs has dropped to its lowest level since 2002, when AETHOS started to track their pay. Today, only 12 CEOs run traditional casino operations. Now in its 13th year of stud...
Gaming CEO Pay in a Year of Reckoning
Keith Kefgen | February 4, 2019
By Keith Kefgen The last eighteen months has been a reckoning for powerful men in the business world and gaming has been no exception. The #MeToo Movement struck down one of the most recognizable names in the gaming industry when Steve Wynn stepped down from the company he founded, Wynn Resorts. These issues have continued to shine a spotlight on CEO pay, severance and golden parachutes. Four other CEOs in gaming are out or on the way out soon. Caesars recently announced that Mark Fissora is stepping down at the end of the year. All that said, it was a very solid year for casinos stocks, with many of the bigger companies outperforming t...
CEO Pay in Gaming: Founders vs Corporate Executives
Keith Kefgen, New York | November 6, 2017
By Keith Kefgen Besides technology, the gaming industry has one of the largest percentages of entrepreneurs running their respective companies. Larger than life personalities such as Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson actually cast a shadow well beyond gaming. But that is changing as entrepreneurs are slowly being replace by corporate execs such as Keith Smith at Boyd, Jim Murren at MGM, Tim Wilmott at Penn and Mark Frissora at Caesars. It is interesting to see how CEO compensation has changed as this process has unfolded. Generally speaking, the entrepreneurs took more of the compensation in equity, while corporate executive appear to have...
