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Sheldon Gary Adelson
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Sheldon Gary Adelson is the Chairman of our Board of Directors and our
non-executive Director. Mr. Adelson has been the Chairman of the Board of LVS, Chief Executive
Officer and a director of LVS since August 2004. Mr. Adelson has been Chairman of the board, Chief
Executive Officer and a director of Las Vegas Sands LLC (or its predecessor) since April 1988, when
Las Vegas Sands LLC was formed to own and operate the former Sands Hotel and Casino. Mr. Adelson
has extensive experience in the convention, trade show and tour and travel businesses. Mr. Adelson
also has investments in other business enterprises. Mr. Adelson created and developed the COMDEX
Trade Shows, including the COMDEX/Fall Trade Show, which was the world’s largest computer show in
the 1990s, all of which were sold to Softbank Corporation in April 1995. Mr. Adelson also created
and developed the Sands Expo Center, which he grew into one of the largest privately owned
convention and trade show destinations in the United States before transferring it to LVS in July
2004. He has been President and Chairman of the board of Interface Group Holding Company, Inc.
since the mid-1970s and Chairman of the board of LVS’s affiliate Interface-Group Massachusetts, LLC
and its predecessors since 1990. Mr. Adelson was appointed as our Chairman and non-executive
Director on August 18, 2009. |
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Sheldon Gary Adelson