Meet the Metropolitan
Managing Director
Alex has a wealth of experience in the casino industry. He first joined London Clubs International in 2011, returning to Caesars Entertainment EMEA as Chief Financial Officer in 2014 after a year with the Aspers Group where he was Head of Business Intelligence. Appointed Managing Director at Caesars in December 2019, he managed the business through Covid, steering its restructuring and eventual sale to Silver Point Capital.
Alex qualified as a Chartered Accountant while working for the global accountancy firm BDO. Outside work he sits on the trustee board of Kick-4-Life, a unique football club based in Lesotho, Southern Africa, dedicated to transforming the lives of vulnerable young people through a wide range of social development activities.
Chief Assurance Officer
With 40 years of international industry experience to draw on, Jimmy is widely recognised as a regulatory compliance expert, a subject matter expert on gaming maths and gaming related risk, and a first-class operator.
Working closely with the regulators in South Africa, he was responsible for the authorship and presentation of group operational standards, which were subsequently adopted as the Eastern and Western Cape equivalent of the UK Gambling Commission Licence Conditions & Codes of Practise.
Moving back to the UK in 2003, Jimmy has held senior positions in Operations, Marketing and Compliance with international UK companies, and most recently joined Metropolitan Gaming in January 2022 – he has been invited to judge at the annual ‘European Casino Awards’ on multiple occasions.
His role as Chief Assurance Officer provides the business expert oversight of all aspects of regulatory risk, and since joining, he has assembled and co-ordinated a multi-award-winning compliance team as well as developed an industry leading surveillance structure.
