There’s never a dull moment in Las Vegas, and Fontainebleau is ensuring that flawless track record continues with the “quiet firing” of its president, Mark Tricano. A new president has been named, Maurice Wooden.
As usual, our local media parroted what they were told, pretty much verbatim. “Verbatim,” of course, is derived from a Latin word meaning, “We’ve given up trying to journalism.”
Never fear. We are here to connect some dots, stir the pot and give you a take you can pretend you came up with all on your own for TikTok, your podcast or YouTube channel. You know who you are.
The first thing local media missed is Fontainebleau distributed its news release announcing Maurice Wooden’s hiring on a Sunday.
In case you haven’t worked in public relations or media, that’s what’s known as a “news dump.” Companies release information they’d prefer not be widely covered by media outlets on weekends (most often, on Friday afternoons). Sunday news gets even more buried than Friday afternoon news.
Anyway, Fontainebleau’s strategy was to have this story pass unnoticed because it involves several awkward elements. Mainly, Fontainebleau doesn’t want this change of leadership to further the narrative that the newly-opened resort is in a state of chaos due to a toxic culture, despite there being ample evidence that’s the case.
To help tamp down the dot-connecting, Fontainebleau says Mark Tricano will stay on at the resort, reporting to Maurice Wooden. In other words, give it a minute. Tricano isn’t going to stick around to play second fiddle to another president. He’ll discreetly move on in the next few months.
Virtually all of Fontainebleau’s key executives have been fired or resigned, some since opening (Dec. 13, 2023), many prior to the resort opening. Here’s the list.
Mark Tricano, President (de facto fired)
Colleen Birch, Chief Operating Officer
Shane Smith, Chief Marketing Officer
Angie Dobney, Vice President of Revenue Management and CRM
Michael Clifford, Senior V.P. of Casino Operations
Cliff Atkinson, President
Dan Cherry, Senior V.P. of Casino Operations
Stephen Singer, Chief Financial Officer
Marc Guarino, Chief Technology Officer
Dianna Balabon, Acting Chief Marketing Officer
Technically, Brett Mufson was president for a minute, but that was considered a placeholder between Atkinson and Tricano. Here’s how it went down.
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