{"id":16628,"date":"2021-04-06T15:17:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=16628"},"modified":"2021-04-06T15:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T15:52:14","slug":"nigel-morrison-gets-regulatory-approval-to-join-crown-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nigel-morrison-gets-regulatory-approval-to-join-crown-board","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Morrison gets regulatory approval to join Crown board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Skycity Entertainment CEO Nigel Morrison is the first new appointment since the Bergin Report found Crown unsuitable to hold its licence for its second Sydney casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- <strong>Nigel Morrison<\/strong> has received the necessary <strong>regulatory approvals to join Crown Resorts&#8217; board <\/strong>as a non-executive director, effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morrison previously<strong> held roles as CEO of the SkyCity Entertainment Group<\/strong>, chief financial officer at <strong>Galaxy Entertainment Group<\/strong> and chief operating officer at <strong>Crown Melbourne<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morrison is the <strong>first new appointment<\/strong> after the\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/another-crown-resorts-director-resigns\">departure of five former Crown directors<\/a><\/em> following recommendations in former <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/ilga-crown-resorts-unsuitable-to-operate-barangaroo-casino\"><em>Supreme Court judge Patricia Bergin\u2019s report<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local reports, <strong>the inclusion of Morrison<\/strong> on the Crown board was a response to<strong> accusations that the board lacked real casino operations experience<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nsw-regulator-crown-could-regain-sydney-licence-this-year\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Crawford, head of the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA)<\/a><\/em>, said in a recent interview: &#8220;I would hope to see<strong> people with some degree of experience in casinos<\/strong>, plus numerate people with board experience, a good understanding of the Corporations Act.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crown Resorts recently <em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/blackstone-makes-au8bn-offer-to-acquire-crown-resorts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received a non-binding offer by Blackstone Group<\/a><\/em> to&nbsp;<strong>acquire all remaining shares in Crown Resorts<\/strong>&nbsp;for<strong>&nbsp;AU$11.85 cash per share<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Skycity Entertainment CEO Nigel Morrison is the first new appointment since the Bergin Report found Crown unsuitable to hold its licence for its second Sydney casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,157],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628"}],"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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16649,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16628\/revisions\/16649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}