Crown Resorts has announced that Xavier Walsh will cease his role as Crown Melbourne CEO on August 20.
Walsh will remain available to assist the company until his employment at Crown ends on December 9. He joined Crown in 2008, working on secondment as the chief operating officer of Cannery Casino Resorts, which operated in Nevada and Pennsylvania in the US, before returning to Australia in 2013 to assume the position of chief operating officer of Crown Melbourne.
In December 2020 he was appointed as Crown Melbourne CEO. Crown will announce an interim appointment for the role of CEO of Crown Melbourne following consultation with the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation.