(Reuters) - Australian casino operator Crown Resorts on Thursday said Ciarán Carruthers, chief operating officer at Wynn Macau, would succeed Steve McCann as its chief executive in September.

Crown was acquired by private equity firm Blackstone Inc for $6.3 billion last month.

(Reporting by Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)