Varun Nayak, MBA, Varun Nayak, MBA, is a Senior Fellow and Chair of AnalysisLAB Business Strategies. With over 15 years of experience within the casino industry, optimizing casino and F&B operations. Varun is a computer scientist by training, a business strategist by trade, and a value investor at heart looking to unearth opportunities of buying dollars for cents. Varun is an adherent acolyte on the virtues of a good value proposition and its impact on the effective rate of return. He excels in advanced modeling techniques and the complexities of market uncertainties. He is a noted expert on contrarian market strategies.

  • Prior experience includes optimizing a gaming floor of 1500 tables and 6000 slots making over US$3 Billion in annual EBITDA for Sands China Limited, the world’s largest gaming operations in Macao, consulting for marketing and gaming strategy for some of the largest casino operations such as Melco, Galaxy, Crown and Genting and designing a table games pricing algorithms. He runs marketing and gaming strategy for Venetian & Palazzo at Las Vegas Sands as Vice President of Casino Analytics & Optimization.
    Prior to working in the hospitality industry, Varun developed software tools such as graphics and physics engines for video game developers, which have been used in numerous games on PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo platforms. He has developed programming techniques for market-based simulations and data mining analysis that outperforms market indices.

  • Along with two distinguished master’s degrees, Varun holds an MBA from UCLA as well as a Master’s in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati.