Mr. Woolf has been in the gaming industry for nearly forty years. He started with Harrah’s in 1967 and has worked in management positions for several high profile, publicly traded hotel/casinos until he founded Navegante Group in 1995. Mr. Woolf was in Atlantic City and the inception of gaming there. He was Senior Vice President of Operations at Caesars when he left in 1984 to become President of Caesars Tahoe. In 1990 Mr. Woolf became the Chairman, CEO and President of MGM Grand, Las Vegas. In 1995 Mr. Woolf founded his own company and has been Chairman, President and CEO of several more companies he has since opened, including Navegante Corporation of Canada and Trillium Gaming in Toronto. He is an owner, operator of Casino Fandango in Carson City, Nevada, a gaming consultant for Galaxy Macau and has an interest in Amazing Holdings in Taiwan.

Larry Woolf started in the gaming business in 1967 with Harrah’s Hotel/Casino in Reno, Nevada, and was promoted to Casino Manager in 1974, a position he held for four years. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest casino manager in the company’s history.

In 1979, Mr. Woolf joined Caesars Atlantic City and was directly responsible for the pre-opening planning, hiring and training of the casino division staff. Not long after opening, he was appointed Senior Vice-President of Operations and was given the added responsibilities of the Hotel and Food and Beverage Divisions. His duties included interacting with the state legislature and various regulatory agencies on a regular basis to define and clarify the numerous issues in this new gaming jurisdiction. Mr.Woolf also took on the task of setting up a worldwide marketing organization. Within one year he had established operating offices in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Mexico City and Hong Kong as well as identifying and placing over 20 agents worldwide.

In 1984, Mr. Woolf was appointed President of Caesars in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. After his first 12 months in Lake Tahoe, Caesars posted a profit, a stunning turnaround from the property’s prior history.

In 1990, Mr. Woolf joined the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino as Chairman and CEO. It took more than three years and a billion+ dollars to design, build and staff this 5,000+ room hotel and casino. While operating this billion-dollar enterprise, Woolf contracted such entertainers as Barbara Streisand, Mike Tyson and the Rolling Stones, just to name a select few.

In 1995 after a short retirement, Mr.Woolf then founded the Navegante Group Inc., which assembled an elite corps of executives and professionals who explore, identify, evaluate and optimize opportunities for a variety of clients worldwide. Through the Navegante Group, he beat out twenty-seven other potential operators to win the bid to develop and operate Casino Niagara, which has since become one of the most successful casinos in the world today.

Recently, he successfully opened Casino Fandango (July 2003), located in Carson City, Nevada. The casino has been extremely well received by its customers and is currently outperforming the marketplace.