Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, and MGM Resorts Luxurious Vacation spot, has introduced the appointment of Melonie Johnson as President and Chief Working Officer (COO). Having entered into the function throughout Atlantic Metropolis’s COVID-19-mandated shutdown, Johnson labored intently with native officers to soundly reopen the property in July. She’s going to proceed to supervise each day operations and strategic course on the property in her new function, and is the primary Black feminine to be named president of an Atlantic Metropolis on line casino.
“I’m very excited to be becoming a member of Atlantic Metropolis’s market-leading resort and look ahead to working with a number of the business’s most educated and fascinating workforce members as we additional place Borgata for continued development and success.”
Amongst solely a handful of feminine leaders nationwide, Johnson is an business veteran with practically 25 years of management expertise in hospitality and gaming. In her new function Johnson will proceed to guide Atlantic Metropolis’s top-performing on line casino because the nation weathers a worldwide well being disaster. Johnson has been with MGM resorts since 2015, and has held management positions at main U.S. properties, most lately serving as President & COO of MGM Nationwide Harbor in Maryland and Gold Strike On line casino Resort in Mississippi previous to that. Johnson additionally serves on the board of International Gaming Ladies, an unbiased charitable group devoted to the event of girls in gaming and lottery – two industries the place girls are seldom represented in management roles.
A graduate of the College of New Orleans, Johnson has constantly dedicated to investing in worker success, making a service-oriented tradition and creating strategic plans to make sure properties beneath her course met each their quick and long-term objectives. Her monetary experience, strategic pondering and expertise at regional gaming properties has served her in plenty of high-profile positions together with, Assistant Normal Supervisor at Hollywood On line casino at Charles City Races in West Virginia; CFO/Interim Normal Supervisor at Hollywood On line casino Aurora in Illinois; Regional Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Finance for Caesars Leisure Company. She succeeds outgoing President and COO Marcus Glover, who held the function since July 2017.
