As he walked through Reno’s Atlantis Casino & Resort on his way to a corporate meeting a few years ago, CEO John Farahi suddenly stopped to pick up a scrap of paper in front of a slot machine. He deposited it into a nearby trash can and resumed his pace toward the boardroom.
The action didn’t surprise Michael Bonner, the casino operator’s longtime outside legal counsel, who was walking with Farahi at the time.
“That describes John. He pays astute attention to detail,” Bonner recounted.
Farahi, 77, has been the top executive of Monarch Casino & Resorts long before it was first listed on the NASDAQ National Market in 1993, a move that opened new financing avenues for the company.
