{"id":13140,"date":"2021-01-08T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13140"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:51:12","slug":"sheldon-adelson-takes-leave-for-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sheldon-adelson-takes-leave-for-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon Adelson takes leave for cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sands current president and COO\u00a0Rob Goldstein will replace Adelson while he is on leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

US.- Las Vegas Sands’ chairman and chief executive Sheldon Adelson has taken leave of absence to undergo cancer treatment for non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COO Rob Goldstein will step in as acting chairman and CEO for the duration of Adelson’s absence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelson’s first took medical leave to undergo the same treatment in the spring of 2019 and returned to Sands in October of the same year. It is unclear how long he will be absent this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 87-year-old founded Las Vegas Sands in 1988 after leading the purchase of Sands Casino. Soon after, the company built the Sands Expo and Convention Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As investors first heard the news, Sands’ share prices fell around 1.5 per cent but stocks soon returned to the prior level echoing the faith in Goldstein to carry out Adelson’s role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the state of Nevada<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has extended its 25 per cent capacity cap on casinos until January 15 as Covid-19 cases continue to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sands current president and COO\u00a0Rob Goldstein will replace Adelson while he is on leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Las Vegas Sands' Chairman and CEO, Sheldon Adelson, has taken a medical leave of absence for cancer treatment, with President and COO Rob Goldstein stepping in as acting Chairman and CEO. This leadership transition saw an initial minor dip in share price quickly recover, reflecting investor confidence. Concurrently, Nevada has extended its 25% casino capacity cap until January 15 due to rising COVID-19 cases.","focusai_entities":"Sheldon Adelson, Rob Goldstein, Las Vegas Sands, Sands Casino, Sands Expo and Convention Center","focusai_location":"US, Nevada, Las Vegas","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Goldstein's Strategic Vision?","query":"What are the immediate strategic priorities for Rob Goldstein as acting Chairman and CEO, particularly concerning Las Vegas Sands' global integrated resort development pipeline and digital transformation initiatives?"},{"label":"Market Impact Analysis?","query":"How might the extended Nevada capacity cap, combined with this leadership transition, influence Las Vegas Sands' Q4 and Q1 financial performance and its competitive positioning within the regional gaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16331],"tags":[1642,23906,21680],"class_list":["post-13140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-elsewhere-news","tag-las-vegas-sands","tag-macau-casinos","tag-sands-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13177,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13140\/revisions\/13177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}