{"id":777019693,"date":"2024-10-08T09:39:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T12:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019693"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:24:22","slug":"sjm-resorts-appoints-damian-quayle-as-chief-gaming-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-resorts-appoints-damian-quayle-as-chief-gaming-officer","title":{"rendered":"SJM Resorts appoints Damian Quayle as Chief Gaming Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quayle confirmed his new role at SJM Resorts on his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <strong>Damian Quayle<\/strong> has been appointed chief gaming officer at SJM Resorts. According to a post Quayle made on his LinkedIn profile, he began last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining SJM Resorts, Quayle held the position of executive vice president of operations at <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/suntrust-approves-us17m-loan-for-westside-city-casino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LET Westside<\/a>, an integrated resort being developed in the Philippine capital by Suntrust Resort Holdings. He was also the chief operating officer at <strong>The Star Entertainment Group<\/strong>, in Australia, where he worked for 11 years. In Macau, Quayle was employed as the director of table games administration at Melco Crown Entertainment from 2008 to 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-holdings-posts-net-revenue-of-us1-77m-for-h1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For the first half of the year<\/a>, SJM posted net revenue of HK$13.8bn (US$1.77bn). That\u2019s a rise of 47.4 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sjm-holdings-posts-net-gaming-revenue-of-us1-1m-for-h1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">year-on-year<\/a>. Adjusted EBITDA came in at HK$1.7bn (US$222m), up 275.9 per cent compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company posted net gaming revenue of HK$12.8bn (US$1.64bn), up 48.3 per cent year-on-year, while gross gaming revenue (GGR) rose to HK$13.79bn (US$1.77bn), up 50.3 per cent. The casino operator reported that its GGR market share increased to 12.5 per cent, up from 11.8 per cent. It recorded an average hotel occupancy of 94.2 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quayle confirmed his new role at SJM Resorts on his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Damian Quayle has been appointed Chief Gaming Officer at SJM Resorts, bringing extensive experience from integrated resorts in the Philippines, Australia, and Macau. This strategic leadership addition coincides with SJM Resorts reporting robust H1 financial performance, including significant year-on-year growth in net revenue, NGR, GGR, and adjusted EBITDA, alongside an increased GGR market share.","focusai_entities":"Damian Quayle, SJM Resorts, LinkedIn, LET Westside, Suntrust Resort Holdings, The Star Entertainment Group, Melco Crown Entertainment","focusai_location":"Macau, Philippines, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Quayle's Strategic Impact","query":"How might Damian Quayle's extensive experience across diverse integrated resort markets influence SJM Resorts' gaming vertical strategy and competitive positioning in Macau?"},{"label":"Market Share Trajectory","query":"Given SJM Resorts' increased GGR market share and robust H1 financial performance, what are the projected growth drivers and potential challenges for sustaining this trajectory in the highly competitive Macau concessionaire landscape?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906,23108],"class_list":["post-777019693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos","tag-sjm-holdings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019693","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=777019693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019724,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019693\/revisions\/777019724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777019693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}