Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited (GEG) announced that Mr. Michael Victor Mecca (Mr. Mecca), a non-executive director (NED) of GEG, will be re-designated as an independent non-executive Director of GEG with effect from 1 March 2023 (the Re-designation). Mr. Mecca, aged 74, was appointed as a NED on 4 May 2018. Prior to his appointment as NED, Mr. Mecca served the GEG and its subsidiaries (the Group) as President and Chief Operating Officer since 2009 and was the President of GEG since September 2015 until his retirement on 16 April 2018.

Mr. Mecca holds a Bachelor degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Oklahoma in the USA. Mecca held senior executive roles with a number of globally recognized gaming and hospitality brands in Las Vegas and Melbourne. Mr. Mecca was formerly a member of the board of directors of Société Anonyme des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Étrangers à Monaco, a company whose shares are publicly traded on Euronext Paris and in which GEG holds an indirect interest of approximately 5%, from September 2015 to September 2021.

Mr. Mecca has been licensed by the Gaming Commissions in both Nevada and Michigan in the United States, Victoria in Australia and Macau. Mr. Mecca is also Honorary President of The Macau Gaming Management Association (MGMA), Advisory Board Member of Macau University Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming (ISCG), Member of G2E Asia Executive Non-Gaming Advisory Board, Honorary Advisor of International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) and Honorary President of Macau Responsible Gaming Association.