A former associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Gary Lovemanjoined Caesars Entertainment Corporation as Chief Operating Officer in 1998.  He drew on his background in marketing and service-management to develop the gaming industry’s most successful loyalty and analytics program, Total Rewards, which boasts more than 40 million members.

Since being named CEO in January 2003, Loveman has presided over a period of growth that included the 2004 purchase of Horseshoe Gaming and the World Series of Poker and the 2005 acquisition of Caesars Entertainment, Inc.  In January 2008, Caesars went private in a $30.7 billion transaction led by private equity firms TPG Capital and Apollo.  In the wake of the recent financial crisis, Loveman has led Caesars’ successful debt reduction and liquidity improvement strategies, while also adding Planet Hollywood to the Company’s portfolio.  Loveman was recognized as the gaming and lodging industry’s best CEO by Institutional Investor magazine for four consecutive years.

Loveman is the past chairman of the American Gaming Association and serves as a director of Coach, Inc. and FedEx Corporation.  He also sits on the Board of Trustees at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics at M.I.T.  He holds a Ph.D. in economics from M.I.T., where he was an Alfred Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, and a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University.