To assist further its foray into the provision of single-team sportsbetting services, American daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings Incorporated has hired veteran sector specialist Johnny Avello (pictured) to function as its new Operations Director.
To handle land-based sportsbetting operations:
Based on a Wednesday report from the Las Vegas Review-Journal paper, Avello has over three decades of industry experience and joined DraftKings Incorporated on Monday following a 13-year spell running the sportsbook for its Wynn Las Vegas. The 65-year-old will purportedly oversee the Boston-based firm’s whole community of land-based sportsbetting operations together with his duties set to encompass all related launching, risk management and trading purposes.
Extensive industry expertise:
The paper reported that Avello is a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, and proceeded to Las Vegas in 1979 where he worked at the sportsbooks for the prior Sands Hotel and Casino and Las Vegas Hilton possessions. He subsequently spent 15 years using Bally’s Las Vegas before departing in 2005 in order to help set up the sportsbetting operation at the Wynn Las Vegas.
“I could ’t say enough about my previous employer, the Wynn Las Vegas. It’s an amazing property and contains amazing people. It was a superb company to work for. But the whole national gambling scene will be larger than everyone expected and that I just want to be part of it. ”
Building a seasoned squad:
The paper reported that Avello is just the newest notable figure to have joined DraftKings Incorporated following the August naming of Frank Kunovic, a former Sportsbook Director for Caesars Entertainment Corporation, as its Retail Sportsbook Operations Director. It detailed that the operator’s executive staff is expected to be further bolstered by the imminent signing of Ed Malinowski, a past Sportsbook Director at the Stratosphere Casino Hotel and Tower.
Possible Nevada license application:
DraftKings Incorporated reportedly made history in August by launching the very first mobile sportsbetting program in New Jersey however, the firm isn’t currently licensed by police in Nevada. But, the Las Vegas Review-Journal surmised that this situation might soon be going to change because of a statement from Avello that his newest article is to watch him ‘run the operation from the Las Vegas area’.
“I could ’t enter where a number of the places might be but my job is to manage the lines and retail operations. By that, I mean the points of sale at the sportsbooks. I can tell you I’m definitely going to be based in Nevada. I’ll run the operation from the Las Vegas area. ”
The paper reported that Avello is well-known in vegas for setting entertainment-only odds on the yearly Academy Awards and regularly being the first bookmaker to establish every week’therefore niches for collegiate American football contests. Matt Kalish, Chief Revenue Officer for DraftKings Incorporated, purportedly described him ‘a legend’ that is ‘very respected in the gambling industry’.
Kalish to the Las Vegas Review-Journal…
“& We ’re dedicated to building a world class sportsbetting operation by putting together excellent talent with varied experiences and backgrounds along with Johnny’s arrival brings us one step closer to that goal. ”
