Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group has tapped gaming industry veteran Scott Kreeger to oversee the expansion of its flagship Galaxy Macau property.

This week, GEG announced that it had hired Kreeger, the former president and COO of the SLS Las Vegas casino, as its director of operations development, new resort. Kreeger, who stepped down from SLS on December 31, has also done stints with gaming operators MGM Resorts and Station Casinos.

News of Kreeger’s appointment came shortly after comments from Macau legislators regarding the future of foreign casino executives. A plenary session of Macau’s Legislative Assembly on Monday featured Labor Affairs Bureau (DSAL) director Wong Chi Hong detailing its progress in boosting the number of local residents in gaming industry management positions.

Macau’s original Five-Year Development Plan contained a goal of seeing local residents make up at least 85% of casino upper and middle management positions by 2020. DSAL figures showed the actual number hitting 84.8% in September 2016, and so the government had advanced its timetable for hitting the 85% target to sometime in 2017.