“But based on opportunities available through the tribe, I graduated college with a bachelor’s in behavioral sciences. “I wasn’t the biggest fan of school,” he said. Guyot has a history of taking advantage of opportunities. Unfortunately, many long-term team members still are not back. We made some tough decisions about reducing our workforce by more than half. “We took a look at previous business volumes, performance indicators and recreated the entire staffing model. The shutdown, which lasted from mid-March to June 1, 2020, allowed Foxwoods to “reset,” Guyot said. “I think we came out of it so well because we focused on the right things - safety and security - and trying to anticipate when the right time (to reopen) would be.”

“The CEO had just resigned, we were in the middle of a closing, with no reopening date on the horizon,” he said in an interview. Guyot, who grew up in Norwich and graduated from Norwich Free Academy and Mitchell College in New London, acknowledged the circumstances were daunting when he took over Foxwoods in mid-April. There’s no better sign of that than to have a tribal member in Jason's role.” “Hopefully, he’ll be leading us for decades to come,” Butler said of Guyot. The deal could lead to the legalization of sports wagering and online gaming in Connecticut. Rodney Butler, the Mashantucket chairman, said Guyot’s promotion was bigger news than the announcement two days later that the Mashantuckets had reached a gaming-expansion agreement with Gov. Jeff Hamilton, Mohegan Sun’s president and general manager, is the third member of the Mohegan Tribe to lead Foxwoods’ chief rival. Last week, the tribe dropped the “interim” from Guyot’s title, naming him president and CEO and making him the first tribal member ever to hold Foxwoods’ top position. At the time, there was no plan to ever close the casino - not for a minute, let alone 11 weeks.īut that’s what happened when the coronavirus struck.Īnd right in the middle of the shutdown, following the brief tenure and abrupt resignation of John James, the tribe named the 42-year-old Guyot interim chief executive officer, adding the job to the one he’d held for years - senior vice president of resort operations. When the doors flung open, he was standing next to his mother, Barbara Poirier, who would serve a term on the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council from 1993 to 1995.

Jason Guyot was 13 years old when Foxwoods Resort Casino debuted in 1992.

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