A private-equity inside-look at running multi-billion-dollar casinos, saving $100 M p.a. with data, and turning Vegas hospitality into a revenue lab.
What you’ll learn
- The playbook that added $100M to slot profits in one year
- Inside a $31 B LBO: weekly flashes, board pressure, and a $260M room renovation debate
- How hotel yield algorithms became the backbone of modern ML systems
- Why Caesars pivoted from gaming to hospitality—and won
- Translating high-volume P&L skills into tech leadership
Guest bio
Eileen Moore Johnson spent 21 years at Harrah’s–Caesars, rising from VP of Revenue Management to Regional President over four Strip resorts during the one the largest LBOs in U.S. history.
Chapters
00:27 Welcome & Stakes — the Future of PE-Backed Operations
01:42 Hotel-Kid to Cornell: Early Path to Data-Driven Ops
02:32 Rolling Out Yield Management at Hilton → Fairmont
04:17 Bringing Revenue Algorithms to the Vegas Strip
05:08 $31 B LBO Inside View, the Caesars-Harrah's Playbook
07:19 $100 M in One Year: Slots & Segmentation Playbook
09:20 Post-Katrina Turnaround
11:45 ‘Hospitality Pod’: Four Resorts, One P&L, on the Las Vegas Strip
13:38 PE Pressure: $260M Renovation & the Iron Debate
18:20 Cromwell Launch: How a 200-Room Hotel Prints Cash
19:55 Casino Math → SaaS: Why Ops Execs Should Consider a Rotation in Tech
23:46 Gaming × AI — What’s Next & Wrap-Up
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