{"id":777042097,"date":"2026-05-13T07:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777042097"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:49:02","slug":"galaxy-entertainment-announces-board-changes-and-new-director-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/galaxy-entertainment-announces-board-changes-and-new-director-appointments","title":{"rendered":"Galaxy Entertainment announces board changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The operator has named Jaime Sze as an independent non-executive director and has appointed former CFO Robert Drake to the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- <strong>Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG)<\/strong> has announced a series of board and committee changes. <strong>Robert Charles Drake<\/strong>, who served as Group CFO from 2008 to March 2023 and later returned as senior advisor, joins the board as a non-executive director effective today. Drake&#8217;s career has included senior roles at Harrah\u2019s Entertainment, now Caesars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GEG also announced the appointment of <strong>Sze Wine Him Jaime<\/strong> as an independent non-executive director and member of the Nomination Committee. The Hong Kong businessman and investment executive currently serves as investment director of Hang Tung Resources Holding Limited and as a non-executive director of Prosperous Future Holdings Limited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sze has signed a three-year service contract and will receive annual remuneration of HK$475,000 (US$61,000). Drake\u2019s three-year appointment has an annual remuneration of HK$390,000 (US$50,100), subject to annual review and shareholder approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also confirmed several changes to board committee leadership, including the appointment of chairman <strong>Francis Lui Yiu Tung<\/strong> as chairman of the Nomination Committee. Independent non-executive directors <strong>William Yip Shue Lam<\/strong> and <strong>Michael Victor Mecca<\/strong> have resigned due to retirement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, the company reported net revenue of <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/galaxy-entertainment-sees-11-rise-in-q1-2026-revenue\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/galaxy-entertainment-sees-11-rise-in-q1-2026-revenue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HK$12.4bn (US$1.59bn) for the first quarter of 2026<\/a>, up 11 per cent year-on-year. In a filing to the&nbsp;<strong>Hong Kong Stock Exchange<\/strong>&nbsp;on May 12, the company reported that adjusted EBITDA reached HK$3.6bn (US$462m) for the three months ended March 31, 2026, an increase of 8 per cent from a year earlier but down 17 per cent from the previous quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/05\/1-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sands-china-ceo-says-integrated-tourism-model-remains-key-to-macau-diversification-push'>Sands China CEO says integrated tourism model remains key to Macau diversification push<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operator has named Jaime Sze as an independent non-executive director and has appointed former CFO Robert Drake to the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777013862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"","focusai_target_profile":"","focusai_suggestions":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[29,24619,23959],"class_list":["post-777042097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-finance","tag-galaxy-entertainment-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042097","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777042097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777042101,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777042097\/revisions\/777042101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777013862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777042097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777042097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777042097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}