{"id":45760,"date":"2025-12-09T15:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=45760"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:37:22","slug":"cliff-atkinson-out-as-president-of-virgin-coo-lia-rispoli-steps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/cliff-atkinson-out-as-president-of-virgin-coo-lia-rispoli-steps-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Atkinson Out as President of Virgin, COO Lia Rispoli Steps In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last, best hope for Virgin Hotels Las Vegas has been shown the door. Yes, it’s named “Virgin Hotels Las Vegas” despite there only being one of them. It’s sort of like when an individual refers to themself in the first person plural, “we.” We have no idea who would even do that, but it could happen. The first paragraph of a story is neither the time nor place to address WTF involving awkward affectation, mostly because there’s so much other WTF ground to cover here.<\/p>\n

Cliff Atkinson is out at Virgin. Chief Operating Officer Lia Rispoli will take on the expanded role of President and COO for the doomed off-Strip resort.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting we are not going to waste time talking about the fact our band in high school was named Awkward Affectation, because there’s serious business to attend to here.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t the first time Cliff Atkinson has served as a sacrificial lamb.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, Virgin.<\/p>\n

The hotel-casino has struggled for years. The first glimmer of hope was sparked by Cliff Atkinson.<\/p>\n

Atkinson saw the chaos of having multiple partners operating various aspects of the resort, and he took action to herd all the various cats.<\/p>\n

Emblematic of that leadership was booting Mohegan Sun as the casino operator of Virgin.<\/p>\n

Our recommendation to call the rebranded loyalty club “Hymen Rewards” was soundly rejected for some reason.<\/p>\n

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Virgin unveils new loyalty club: Cherry Rewards. We've got the card designs and tiers, exclusively, as well as the name Virgin rejected. https:\/\/t.co\/dqlZ0lVGQn<\/a> @VirginHotelsLV<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/sD9X6S5JfY<\/a><\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) February 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n