Three gaming managers at upscale Las Vegas properties — two of them women — were unanimously recommended for licensing Wednesday by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Jacqui Krum, executive vice president, general counsel and director of Wynn Resorts Ltd.; Vladimira Mircheva, Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Bally’s Corp.; and Carlos Castro, president, secretary and treasurer of Resorts World Las Vegas, were recommended in separate votes for licensing after suitability hearings.
Final license approval will be considered by the Nevada Gaming Commission at its March 26 meeting.
Castro was recommended for approval without appearance. Regulators recently scrutinized Resorts World’s anti-money laundering compliance plans when they licensed former Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and former Gaming Control Board Chairman AG Burnett as Resorts World directors in February. The property’s parent company was fined in 2025 for allowing players associated with illegal bookmaking gambling at the casino.
Board members praised Krum and Mircheva for their rapid rises at their respective companies.
Krum will succeed Ellen Whittemore, a member of the Gaming Hall of Fame who retired last year after announcing her planned retirement in September 2024. Originally from South Africa, Krum was Whittemore’s counterpart at Encore Boston Harbor and helped open the resort in June 2019.
Krum said that in addition to moving to Las Vegas, she will make quarterly visits to the company’s properties in Macau and to Wynn Mayfair in London. The English casino was acquired in January 2025 to serve as a feeder market to the company’s $5.1 billion Wynn al Marjan project under construction in the United Arab Emirates, due to open in 2027.
Mircheva, who reports directly to Bally chairman Soo Kim, told regulators she expects her biggest challenge will be staying ahead of all of Bally’s ongoing projects across the country.
In addition to working with the Athletics to coordinate a project related to the Major League Baseball stadium being built at Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, Bally’s is working to open Chicago’s first-ever casino and has been selected for a license to build a casino resort in New York.
“We are actively engaged in finding partners and working with our landlord” in Las Vegas, Mircheva said. “There is obviously a capital commitment under an LOI (letter of intent) there, which has only been partially funded.”
The Bally’s Las Vegas project is expected to be developed in phases that would eventually include a 3,000-room hotel.
“Bally’s has announced a plan to develop a retail, entertainment and dining center that we think will be very attractive, given the great location we have and kind of where it is on The Strip,” Mircheva said. “You know, we foresee a big opportunity for signs and signage and advertising for various retailers, as well as an attractive mall that will obviously have a lot of foot traffic that will be driven by the A. We’re looking at possibly having the two hotel towers with 3,000 rooms and 500,000 square feet of retail space.”
The stadium is expected to be completed in time for the start of the 2028 baseball season.
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