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Byline: Suzette Parmley
Jul. 19--Donald J. Trump is looking to two Atlantic City veterans to turn his struggling casino business around.
Mark Juliano, who resigned as president of Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday, will replace Mark Brown as head of the three Trump casinos in Atlantic City, according to Trump. Juliano's last day at Caesars Palace is July 31.
"I'm very happy about it," Trump said yesterday in a phone interview from New York. "It's fantastic. There's no better team in the business."
Juliano, 50, joins James B. Perry, who was tapped by Trump earlier this month to become chief executive officer of New York-based Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., which operates a riverboat casino in Gary, Ind., in addition to the three casinos in Atlantic City. Both men had served as top executives of major properties in Atlantic City.
Industry experts said the appointment of Perry, 58, a former CEO of Argosy Gaming Co., and now Juliano, who was president of Caesars Atlantic City in the mid-1990s, and president and chief operating officer for MGM Mirage there from 1998 to 2001, sends a strong message.
"It's a fascinating move, and it clearly indicates that Trump recognizes that his company needs more than additional capital," Michael Pollock, publisher of Gaming Industry Observer, said yesterday. "It needs the highest level of managerial talent."