In recent years, the Montreal-basedCaesarsInteractive has built Playtika, which itacquired in 2011, into amajorplayer in the worldof smartphone-based casino-stylegames.
He was president of CaesarsWorld, and when that company was sold to ITT in 1995 he moved over to MGM as chief executive under majority shareholder Kirk Kerkorian, who in recent years has been more focused on his movie studio and auto investments than on his casino company.