Complete Media Group (CMG) has two major bases of operations — Macau and Las Vegas — corresponding to the respective major bases of operations of wholly-owned subsidiaries Inside Asian Gaming and CDC Gaming. Each company employs approximately 25 team members, giving CMG a total of around 50 team members. In addition to the Macau headquarters, IAG staff are very often to be found in the Philippines, Australia and Singapore, as well as other gaming-related locations around the region. CDC Gaming has team members in eight US states, South America and the United Kingdom.
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ANDREW W SCOTT
Chief Executive Officer
Born in Australia, Andrew began his career in 1986, working for a major Chartered Accounting firm primarily preparing financial accounts and income tax returns, in addition to conducting some audit and liquidation work. He then established a sports betting business in Vanuatu before returning to Australia to focus on the casino industry from the early 1990s.
He spent the next 15 years travelling the world visiting over 200 casinos primarily in the Americas and the Asia-Pacific region before moving to Hong Kong in 2005 and then Macau in 2009, when he founded O MEDIA, and its leading title World Gaming, a print magazine and website covering the gaming industry in Asia. O MEDIA acquired Inside Asian Gaming in early 2015, at that time an English-only monthly print magazine also covering the gaming industry in Asia. As CEO, Andrew drove the significant expansion of IAG, substantially increasing the monthly magazine content, adding a thriving events business, expanding the asgam.com website, overseeing the development of daily digital publication IAG Breakfast Briefing and adding Chinese language industry coverage both online and in the print version of IAG. In addition to his CEO role, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the boards of O MEDIA and IAG on 1 January 2020.
In an eclectic career Andrew has been an accountant, nightclub manager, sports betting business manager, educator, high stakes poker player and television commentator, journalist and publisher. He has been visiting and commentating on gaming and hospitality businesses since 1986 and is now a journalist and executive with deep knowledge in the gaming and leisure sectors in Macau and the Asia-Pacific region. Andrew was the 2014 Macau Person of the Year and is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, a permanent member of the Macau Gaming Management Association, and was formerly Vice Chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Macau. He is a member of the International Federation of Journalists, the Portuguese and English Press Association of Macau and the Poker Tournament Directors Association. He is a well recognised media commentator in Macau on a range of issues and is extensively networked in Macau, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore and many other locations across Asia.
Andrew has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the Faculty of Economics and Commerce of the University of Tasmania (including various University awards and prizes) and a Master of Science (International Integrated Resort Management) with honors (with a perfect 4.0 GPA) from the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Macau. His thesis was entitled, “What makes one Asian Integrated Resort more profitable than another?”
CORY J ROBERTS
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Cory’s journey in technology began early, joining a web programming course at the age of nine. Cory got his first taste of the news when he was thirteen delivering papers via rollerblade and saved up enough money to build his first computer. In high school, Cory founded several video game websites with hundreds of thousands of visits per year and ran a small computer repair business via classifieds listing site Craigslist, combining his technical skills with entrepreneurial initiative.
After college, Cory returned to Craigslist and found a promising ad – a local casino industry publication needing office computer help. He quickly discovered that his creative thinking and can-do attitude were welcomed and encouraged by CDC Gaming founder Jeffrey Compton and soon after began working with CDC’s email reports, the website, and news on a daily basis.
Cory has helped bring numerous CDC projects to life, including programming and designing the total update of the CDC Gaming website, the rebranding of the company from CDC Gaming Reports and designing its trade show presence, launching the most regular video coverage of the industry via CDC Gaming Connect, launching numerous widely-read industry newsletters such as the afternoon Last Call and special From the Floor issues, and organizing and expanding CDC’s specialty reports into the Focus series — including Igaming Focus, Focus on Asia and Focus on Partners.
In 2016, Cory was named to the 2017 class of the gaming industry’s “40 under 40” by Global Gaming Business Magazine and in 2020, he was named Publisher of CDC Gaming.
In 2018, Cory began CDC Gaming’s collaboration with Inside Asian Gaming by forming a strategic partnership, growing the relationship over the years, helping lead to the formation of COMPLETE MEDIA GROUP.
As Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of COMPLETE MEDIA GROUP, Cory continues to cultivate new ideas for the company, collaborating with team members on both sides of the Pacific, using his unique understanding of how people use technology shaped by his professional training as a teacher and organic immersion in technology throughout life.
Cory graduated from Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Institute of Music in 2012 with a Bachelor of Music.
SCOTT J MESSINGER
Chief of Staff
Scott is a seasoned executive with decades of international leadership experience in marketing, brand management, advertising, public relations, digital marketing, entertainment and event management in New York, Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau. He was SVP & Management Representative at Ted Bates Worldwide, a New York advertising agency. After 13 years at Ted Bates, Scott became EVP and Managing Director of Scali McCabe Sloves, another leading New York advertising agency, for seven years. His experience included wine and spirits, technology, hospitality and luxury brands. He served several years as an Effie Marketing Awards Finals Judge and is a two-time Golden Effie Award winner himself. Scott then took on the role of EVP of Marketing for a dot com startup from 1998 to 2001.
Building on his advertising and marketing career, Scott joined Las Vegas Sands in 2002, seeing him embark on a 16-year integrated resorts career with a multitude of Sands assets in Las Vegas, Macau and Singapore under a variety of titles, including VP of Brand Marketing at Venetian Las Vegas, VP of Brand Marketing and Operations at Venetian and Palazzo, Corporate VP of Advertising and Brand Management for Las Vegas Sands and Sands China Limited, SVP of Marketing at SCL and finally SVP of Special Projects at SCL. Part of various Sands opening teams, Scott ensured consistency across all major Sands branded programs in all markets. He drove the strategy and positioning of virtually every Sands brand across all business units including gaming. This long period at Sands was punctuated by one year as Chief Marketing Officer for Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Scott then served as VP of Marketing & Brand for Melco Resorts & Entertainment from 2018 to 2020, which was followed by four years in gaming consulting roles in Macau before joining Inside Asian Gaming in early 2024. A long-time follower of IAG, Scott quickly settled into his Chief of Staff role which encompasses oversight across all aspects of IAG’s operations in media, events and advisory services.
Scott has been involved in hundreds of TV commercial and print productions and has worked with some of the world’s most notable directors including Masie Choi, David Bailey, Caleb Deschanel and Tim Newman. Innately curious and intuitive, Scott thrives on challenging conventional wisdom and approaches each day as an opportunity to learn.
Scott holds a Master and Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the prestigious Northwestern University in the US, and is currently studying a Master Degree in History & Cultural Tourism from the University of Saint Joseph in Macao.
