SLS earlier this year announced it hired Aliante’s Terry Downey as president and chief operating officer and Robert Schaffhauser as chief financial officer. The Strip resort bought in May by Reno casino owner Alex Meruelo has snatched 13 top executives from the Aliante Hotel as it prepares for a major image makeover. SLS Las Vegas has recruited more than a dozen senior managers from a Boyd Gaming Corp.
A matchbook of the former Sahara hotel-casino is posted on the SLS Las Vegas hotel-casino Instagram page Thursday, July 6, 2017.