Peter George

Peter Michael George (October 3, 1943 – January 4, 2007) was a British businessman who served from 1994 to 2000 as Chairman and CEO of Hilton Group PLC, the British company that operates non-US Hilton hotel locations and Ladbrokes betting shops.

Education Peter George was educated at the City of London Freemen's School. and Ladbrokes' property division is shut down. In 1998, government regulators ruled Ladbrokes' ambitious purchase of the Coral chain at George's direction anticompetitive and Ladbrokes was forced to sell. George stepped down as CEO in May of 2000 in order to spend more time with his family and spend more time in the United States. His position was filled by David Michels, and he moved to Los Angeles to live with his wife Kay. In the US, he continued to serve in existing positions as a nonexecutive director on the board of US Airways Group Inc and as nonexecutive director of Hilton Hotels Corp in Beverly Hills. He joined Park Place Entertainment as the Head of International Development. Park Place later acquired Caesars Worldwide and changed its name to Caesars Entertainment. The company was bought in 2005 by Harrah's Entertainment, and George worked there until his death in 2007. "Peter was a bookmaker's son but he didn't get on with his father and wrote to me for a job. He started working on the field book in the credit office, but he was good with figures and we put him on the rails alongside Dickie Gaskell, though it wasn't long before he took over his own pitch." Shortly after, he married Kay, an American woman. He has one daughter who he had with his first wife, Carol.