{"id":777012636,"date":"2024-01-25T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T13:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012636"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:40:02","slug":"sands-china-appoints-grant-chum-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sands-china-appoints-grant-chum-as-ceo","title":{"rendered":"Sands China appoints Grant Chum as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Goldstein will step down but will continue to serve as chairman of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0Sands China\u00a0has issued a statement announcing several changes to its board. <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sands-chinas-rob-goldstein-re-elected-as-ceo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Goldstein<\/a>\u00a0will step down as chief executive officer (CEO) and president. He will be succeeded by <strong>Grant Chum<\/strong>, who has been serving as the chief operating officer of the Macau gaming and integrated resort operator since February 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goldstein has been re-designated as a non-executive director. He will continue to act as the chairman of the board and chairman of the nomination committee. Goldstein had been serving as CEO since January 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sands China also announced that <strong>Wilfred Wong<\/strong> has been appointed as executive vice chairman, while<strong> Dave Sun<\/strong>, senior vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) since 2017, has been named executive vice president. He will continue to serve as CFO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chum joined Las Vegas Sands as senior vice president, global gaming strategy in July 2013 and served as chief of staff from March 2015 until February 2020.\u00a0Before joining the company, he spent 14 years at UBS Investment Bank in a variety of roles, including serving as managing director, head of Hong Kong equity research and head of China equity research.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Goldstein will step down but will continue to serve as chairman of the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":29796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Sands China has announced significant leadership transitions, with Robert Goldstein stepping down as CEO and President to assume a non-executive director role while retaining his position as Chairman of the Board. Grant Chum, previously COO, has been appointed as the new CEO and President, alongside other key executive appointments including Wilfred Wong as Executive Vice Chairman and Dave Sun as Executive Vice President and CFO.","focusai_entities":"Sands China, Robert Goldstein, Grant Chum, Wilfred Wong, Dave Sun, Las Vegas Sands, UBS Investment Bank","focusai_location":"Macau, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Macau Strategy","query":"How might Grant Chum's appointment as CEO influence Sands China's capital allocation and operational strategy within the evolving Macau gaming concession landscape?"},{"label":"Governance Framework Evolution","query":"What are the implications of Robert Goldstein's re-designation to a non-executive director role for Sands China's corporate governance framework and board oversight structure?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[21680],"class_list":["post-777012636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-sands-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012636","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012667,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012636\/revisions\/777012667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}