The Casino Association of New island of Jersey (CANJ) has found its next chairperson by right smart of Terry Glebocki, She is a longtime vet of Atlantic Ocean City’s gaming manufacture who is currently the chief executive director ship's officer of Ocean Casino Resort.
CANJ needful to bump a replacement for Steve Callender, who announced his retirement inwards March. The leading swop organisation representing the interests of Atlantic Ocean City’s niner casinos inward the New Jersey capital of New Jersey capital letter said its members selected Glebocki to head the group.
“I am privileged and honored to win Steve Callender,” Glebocki said inward a statement. “Steve successfully led our organization during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we are thankful for the strength and leading he has shown inwards these unprecedented times.
With her appointment, Glebocki becomes the first off distaff to caput the CANJ.
Big Shoes to Fill
Glebocki replaces Callender, who has been mired inward Atlantic Ocean City since the townsfolk took its for the first time sound wager support inward 1978. Callender worked his path upwards from a tabulate gamy dealer at Resorts to overseeing many of the town’s gambling casino resorts.
Callender most lately served as regional chairwoman of the newly formed Caesars Entertainment. The society operates Caesars, Harrah’s, and Tropicana inwards town.
Glebocki takes his localise with to a greater extent than trine decades of her own go through in Atlantic City. Her vocation inward the beachfront gaming townsfolk dates back up to 1987 when she was the help controller of the Bally’s Grand. The Boardwalk resort hotel would later become the Atlantic City Hilton, and eventually, the Atlantic Ocean Club.
Glebocki united former President Donald Trump’s Trump Entertainment Resorts inwards 1991 to suit the cassino operator’s VP of finance. She held that place until 2007 when she united the Revel Entertainment Group, the troupe that would submit quintuplet years to undecided the $2.4 one million million Revel Casino Hotel.
Revel unsympathetic inward failure inwards 2014 before eventually reopening as Ocean inwards 2018. Glebocki, who at the clip was workings as the executive director vice chair of Tropicana Entertainment, returned to the former Revel inward betimes 2019 as CFO. Ocean, and then to the full owned by New York elude fund El-Aksur Capital, named her CEO the next December.
Women Leadership
The days of the room rooms and executive suites of cassino resorts inwards Las Vegas and Atlantic Ocean City beingness dominated by men are long gone.
MGM Resorts followed Ocean’s track inwards too soon 2020 when it ordained Melonie Dr. Johnson to running play its Borgata. Today, ternary of the Nina from Carolina casinos in townspeople are headed by women. Along with Glebocki and Johnson, Jacqueline Grace is the senior vice chairwoman and superior general manager of Tropicana.
Johnson was the firstly African-American adult female to follow named to leading an Atlantic Ocean City casino, and Grace the second.
“I am proud of my buster distaff executives who are pavement the path for other talented women to fall in the leadership ranks, farther transforming the gaming industry into a to a greater extent various and dynamical workplace,” Glebocki added this week.