Alidad Tash is the founder and managing director at 2NT8 Limited, a Hong Kong-based consultancy which advises clients on casinos and integrated mega-resorts in the world’s largest current and emerging gaming jurisdictions, including Macao, Japan, Korea, Las Vegas, and Greece.

 

Alidad has been in the gaming industry since 2000, starting at Venetian Las Vegas, and continuing on to Macao in 2006. He was on the opening team at The Venetian Macao in Cotai, leading the analytics department. While there, he popularized the now-ubiquitous No Commission Baccarat.

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Alidad moved on to City of Dreams in 2010, later opening Studio City while overseeing 5,000+ employees as Senior Vice President of Gaming Operations & Strategy. During his 6+ years, CoD became the ultimate premium mass destination in Macao, featuring Macao’s highest hold percentage ever and win per mass table per day. In his last five years, CoD led all other mass casinos in win per table*.

 

He has obtained two master’s degrees, in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and Statistics from USC. Prior to joining the casino industry, he worked in the medical statistics and credit card industry.

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* The five years were 2012 to 2016, shown at [2:45] of this video