Jacqui Krum will succeed Ellen Whittemore as general counsel and executive vice president of casino company Wynn Resorts following Whittemore’s retirement in early 2025.
Krum is at present general counsel and senior vice president at Wynn Resorts’ Encore Boston Harbor resort, in Everett, Massachusetts. She joined the company in 2013 to work on the development of gaming projects in the US and abroad and was a member of the team that secured the competitive gaming license bid in the Eastern Massachusetts area for Wynn Resorts.
In 2015, she moved from Las Vegas to Boston to take on her current role and help with the opening of Encore Boston Harbor resort in 2019. Before joining the company, Krum was vice president and general counsel at MGM Resorts International, responsible for gaming and non-gaming projects globally. She was previously a partner with Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard & Shapiro.
Whittemore, who is also corporate secretary for Wynn Resorts, has led the company’s global legal affairs, philanthropy, community relations, government affairs and sustainability activities since 2018. According to the firm, she has been ‘instrumental in the company’s efforts to enhance its workplace culture, corporate ethics and governance.’ She will continue to sit on the board of Wynn Macau and will be a consultant to the firm.
Before joining the company, Whittemore was a shareholder of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, having previously been sole manager of the Whittemore Gaming Group and before that of counsel in the Las Vegas office of the law firm Lionel Sawyer & Collins.
Craig Billings, CEO of Wynn Resorts, says in a statement: ‘Ellen Whittemore was, in the truest sense, the right person at the right time to help lead Wynn Resorts through a thicket of litigation and corporate governance changes. [Her] track record, including her reputation as a person of the highest integrity, was essential in working with regulators, our board and employees during a time of transition and change.
‘Recently, [she] led the successful effort to resolve key remaining legal and litigation matters overhanging the company, and I appreciate her hard work on those issues. Ellen devoted her efforts to making us a better company; she succeeded, and we are thankful.’
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